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Doctor sent paul for another chest x-ray & ct-scan yesterday to check if the air inside both lungs are lesser. It shows that it's been much lesser and now the right side has approx 10-15% and the left side is 15%. They will be transferring the bottle from the right to the left side to suck out the air today.

It also shows paul's lungs are not expanding well and he needs to do more deep breathing exercise. Hopefully by doing that regularly, the gap between the muscles and the wall can be closed up or else the fluid will continue to accumulate and the chemo drugs can't be inserted as it will flow out again.

All these are due to lack of nutritions as paul has not eaten for 9mths or more and he's only having nutrition thru the bloodstreams now.

Last night was another dramatic night for us as paul was very agitated again around 7pm and he was suffering from sharp pain every now and then and despite purging the morphine, the pain didn't subside and he was in cold sweat and feverish. His temperature was 38.7deg. I called the pain management doctor and he asked the nurse to give paul medicine to calm him down and also to bring down the fever.

He was so restless and agitated and asked me to turn off the tv and was feeling very fearful and kept praying. I felt so helpless and prayed with him and thank God after about half an hour later, the medicine finally took effect and he managed to sleep for an hour.

He woke up at around 9.30pm and felt better after that. At around 1030pm, i requested for sleeping medication to let him rest and finally he slept pretty well after that.

We woke up at 7am when the doctor came to check on him and paul managed to sleep again until almost 10am.

I requested to reduce the base dose of the morphine as he has been talking alot in his sleep and jerking more than before. Dr Kok agreed and he adjusted the base dose this morning and hopefully it's better for paul.