Sleeping all day...

Another quiet day... Eric has been pretty much sleeping all day I was able to get him up once this morning to walk. I will try later to get him to walk again, he is just so tired and weak and pretty much wants to just sleep all the time from the morphine and pain. I do not blame him, his mouth is pretty swollen with mouth sores, it looks like someone punched him in the mouth.

He won't even drink anything, hurts to much to swallow. I am amazed how much more weaker Eric has become, his legs look so frail. I am worried if we do not keep him walking at least the three times a day that his muscles in his legs will get weak as I see signs already of them weaker, They say all of this is part of the course and that the key is really to the morphine for the pain however still getting up as much as possible to walk as they have studies that show patients do better and get out of the inpatient sooner if they are walking,

A side note also to all this is Eric's pneumonia and fungus infection in his lungs. With all the fluids they are pumping in him and laying down all that fluid just sits back on the bottom of him by his already infected lungs which puts him at higher risk of the infection getting worse. No fevers though, that is good. The nausea and throwing up has been better as long as he gets his schedule IV nausea medicine ABH. You learn to know the system and what medications you need and when to make things alot more manageable. The Lord continues to comfort us and bless us each step we take and I am so grateful for that. There are good days and bad days/ that constant roller coaster but the last few days have been quieter and we will take that as I am sure we will have a few more bumps. Hopefully Eric can get rest also through the night.