Not doing so well today

Things are not going so well today. We've seen a pretty rapid decline in Dad the past few days -- becoming more and more sleepy, softspoken, and not engaging much in conversation. Today his blood pressure and ability to swallow have followed the downward trend.

The staff did get him up for a bath today, but his blood pressure dropping nearly stopped that activity. He settled back into a normal pressure once he was back in bed, but just now his blood pressure was 84/60. . .down from 126/74 earlier today. He hasn't really opened up his eyes since I've been up here, but I guess he kind of gave Mom a deep meaningless stare earlier when she walked in. Not really registering too much that she was here. He does know, and answers some questions and follows some commands, but overall just not doing well.

We're going to see if he can tolerate some soup for dinner on his own. We are encouraging folks to come up and visit sooner rather than later based on the past several days of decline. His Oncologist did say today that the chemo could really wipe him out, but this seems like more than just tired to us.

I'm now deciding if I'm leaving tomorrow morning for a few days or not. I'm checked in for my flight already, but need to see how things go. Probably will go, but then get to Portland, get things at home wrapped up, and then come back to Omaha for a while.