- Wake to the sound of a seizure at 5 am, a guttural moan and rattling, and run/hobble to patient's bedroom to assess situation
- Administer large dose of CBD and CBDa via new protocol
- Think who lives like this? while making sure patient is comfortable. Question pertains both to patient and caregiver
- Turn on light (essential rule for those who struggle with psychosis in early morning hours)
- Drop essential oil Frankincense into palms of hands, cup patient's nose for several seconds, caregiver's nose and then massage patient's feet
- Recite secular prayers and pretend to administer Reiki
- Note that second seizure does not happen, a small improvement from previous days
- Change diaper and notice that hydration might be necessary
- Worry and wonder
- Contemplate whether hydration might be necessary in hospital as patient slept most of previous day, having been drugged into oblivion because of too many seizures
- Think who lives like this? as pertaining to patient. Curse wisdom teeth, so ridiculously named.
- Text friend from East Coast who emphasizes importance of hydration.
- Contemplate which hospital to take patient to for hydration, drawing upon 23 years of experience in caregiving
- Contemplate waking College Boy or Brother to drive patient and caregiver to hospital
- Contemplate the various pros and cons of hospital admittance
- Read text from friend: Take her in
- Continue contemplation of big city hospitals, private insurance and who takes MediCal as secondary
- Curse the American health care system to ward off financial fears
- Retrieve large syringe used to administer pharmaceuticals, bottle of cold Pedialyte from fridge and towel
- Sit at patient's bedside and carefully syringe 5 ml of liquid into patient's mouth until 8 oz is down the hatch.
- Help patient to cough up mucous with newly purchased $369 portable home suction machine
- Think who lives like this? pertaining to both patient and caregiver throughout home hydration
- Lie next to patient and gradually realize that patient is not seizing like she had in previous days, has drunk an appropriate amount of electrolyte-balanced liquid and is resting peacefully
- Rest peacefully next to patient while College Boy and Brother sleep unaware of caregiver and patient drama on other side of wall
- Rise from patient's bed at 7:00 am, make coffee for caregiver and oatmeal for patient to hopefully eat later. Sip coffee and contemplate the universe
- Bring patient 8:00 medication and coax another 8 oz of liquid into patient's mouth.
- Note, again, that no seizures have occurred
- Think who lives like this? while planning a trip down to Santa Ana to visit a dispensary that has a good stock of CBDa. It's called Fiddlers Greens.
This has been a Public Service Announcement.
* The "wisdom" teeth are so-called because one is presumably wiser when they appear in late childhood, early adulthood. I call bullshit.
