FINALLY......

For the past 2 days...Mr. T has been eating! 2 Boosts in the morning with a boiled egg. Lunch is jello...another Boost. And each night I have been ordering chicken from St. Huberts BBQ. He has 1/4 chicken breast with fries....another Boost in the evening and a handful of almonds.

When we were admitted he was 179 lbs...now he is 162. It's good to lose weight but not the way he's been doing it. They need to build him up for the ordeal ahead. There is nothing like a tube down your nose to make you see the light. I understand how difficult it must be to eat when you have no hunger whatsoever....but slowly & surely his appetite will come back.

His dietician brought him Carnation Strawberry in a can...and he seems to prefer those to Boost....but she wants him to eat protein as well as carbs to get enough calories in him. I don't care if it maxes me out....I'll get him whatever he wants to eat...as much as he wants. Right now they are not too concerned with his sugars...they just want to see him eat.....but of course I can't buy him chocolate bars, icecream or bags of candy.

We are still waiting for his counts to come up in order for him to get his broviac in....dental work done....and hopefully get home for a break. It's so nice to see him eating again. At least he is making an effort.

Today his counts are:

Hemoglobin is 105*

Platelets are 17* (he's been getting platelets every day)

Neutro-polys are still 0.00*