Grading Kevin's side effects is an art form of it's own.
Sometimes I ask and get a paragraph with complete sentences. This means he has a lot going on but he still has the energy to talk about it.
Sometimes I get short simple words. "Head" "Stomach" This means just the effort of answering adds to the pain.
"OK." tells me I want to pursue a little more detail. Usually it means he feels rotten but he thinks he whines too much so he doesn't want to say he feels rotten. Sometimes it means he's felt marginally rotten long enough that there just doesn't seem to be any point in visiting the situation yet again.
Tonight's how-are-you-feeling exchange went like this:
"How are you feeling tonight?"
"Like crap."
This is a definite improvement over the days when he answers"like shit." Things are looking up.
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