[Magdalen] Hospice update

[Catharine Phillips]

Jon,
Thank you for keeping us apprised of your journey.  Prayers continue.  May
you and Dawn continue to know rest and grace upon grace in hospice care.
Blessings on you.
Catharine

On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 5:36 AM, Ginga Wilder <gingawilder at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Jon, thank you for this update.  You and Dawn continue daily in my prayers.
>
> Love and peace,
> Ginga
>
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 8:12 PM, Jon Egger <revegger at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello to all of you folks!
> >
> > There are no words for how well hospice is taking care of me other than
> gr
> > ​a​
> > ce upon grace.  RN and bath aide come twice a week.  Social worker and
> > chaplain
> > ​also visit weekly.  all of my meds are on their list so I won't have any
> > out of pocket costs for as long as I am in their care.  My meds are
> > delivered, also.​  I now have a DPOA (Dawn first, Philip second) and a
> > lovely salmon colored paper ​DNR on my fridge door.  There is a bag of
> > emergency meds in my fridge which the nurse counts every week.
> >
> > We are still tweaking pain meds.  The 25 mg oral tramadol is not cutting
> it
> > anymore, so the doc changed that to 50 mg every four hours, and hopefully
> > the oxycontin to cover the tramadol will be here in the morning.  I am
> > sleeping well for the first time in a long time and my main problem is
> > boredom.  Luckily I have lots of books on my nook.
> >
> > I will not let myself drive anymore.  Three near accidents has taught me
> > that lesson.  My mind also wanders a lot and for some reason I'm
> incapable
> > of making common right turns.  I'm selling it to one of our best friends
> > who no longer has a vehicle.  She was over earlier to pick it up.  I'll
> > sign over the title to her (when I can find it) after the new year.
> She's
> > willing to buy it at blue book value which is about 4000USD, and plans to
> > pay me about 200/month.
> >
> > Many small graces have left me humbled muchly in this Advent.
> >
> >
> > +++
> > Grace & peace,
> > j
> > ​o​
> > n
> >
>


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