While for the most part we try to keep Ada doing all her regular activities, a few new things have been fit into her daily schedule.
Each morning she has to do a urine catch and dip. The sticks weren't easy to find, but a good pharmacist checked all over the area for us and was able to help us get them. They show us how much protein her kidneys are leaking. It should read negative, but right now she is reading high, although in this picture it is the first time the color isn't quite so intense.
At noon time she gets to take her prednisone. Since she was able to swallow pills they sent her home with pills instead of liquid. So at lunch she is suppose to take 4 1/2 pills with food. She likes to take them with the rolls I made her.
She is getting pretty good at taking them, and in this picture is trying to take two at once.
Also, since she needs to make sure she isn't always eating (the prednisone makes a person ravenously hungry) and to monitor how much sodium she is getting, she has flexible eating schedule where we log everything she eats, how much sodium is in it, and how much fluid she has taken in.
Each morning she has to do a urine catch and dip. The sticks weren't easy to find, but a good pharmacist checked all over the area for us and was able to help us get them. They show us how much protein her kidneys are leaking. It should read negative, but right now she is reading high, although in this picture it is the first time the color isn't quite so intense.
At noon time she gets to take her prednisone. Since she was able to swallow pills they sent her home with pills instead of liquid. So at lunch she is suppose to take 4 1/2 pills with food. She likes to take them with the rolls I made her.
She is getting pretty good at taking them, and in this picture is trying to take two at once.
Also, since she needs to make sure she isn't always eating (the prednisone makes a person ravenously hungry) and to monitor how much sodium she is getting, she has flexible eating schedule where we log everything she eats, how much sodium is in it, and how much fluid she has taken in.
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The information you've included here, and the pictures showing some of Ada's daily activities are very helpful. I love the food chart! Tell Ada I think it's great that we can prednisone buddies. She looks like she is better at it then I am.
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