We met with a nutritionist today. Like all of us, she is concerned with Jim's weight loss and wanting to keep him strong for the battle! She gave us some great suggestions, all completely counter to what I need to do to lose weight. Basically, he needs more fat in his diet! She said that fat is helpful in fighting lung cancer, seriously! So more cheese, ice cream, peanut butter, guacamole and basically add butter, oil or whey protein powder to anything we can! So Pat and Mary, when you are here you'll need to teach me to cook with cheese and butter!
He's had a bad time with nausea so after our hour with the nutritionist we are at the infusion center. Jim is getting an IV with anti-nausea drugs and then just fluids as he is dehydrated from the last few days.
To top it off we are grieving the loss of our dear friend, John. He died yesterday after fighting off an infection related to an aortic aneurysm. He was a kind, gentle, compassionate man and we will miss his friendship.
Just saying .. medical marijuana was made legal for just this reason. It is a fantastic nausea fighting drug and helps you eat. I can understand that you probably don't want to take one more thing but it sure does help with some of your side effects. A friend's dad takes it for his Parkinson's symptoms. It is amazing how many forms you can get it! It just might help you get down all that bacon fat! love you guys.
ReplyDelete