5:51pm ~ October 6, 2008

Mariah's pain is under better control. It took a while and several changes but things are looking better for her. When her pain starts creeping up it happens quite quickly so it is nice for her to have morphine to reduce the pain within minutes rather than waiting for any oral pain medication to take effect. She is taking oral meds for pain but has IV morphine ordered once an hour as needed to take when the oral meds aren't helping. My silly sweetie keeps waking up to make sure she isn't missing any visitors!