Fifty Dollars and Thirty minutes later

Posted by Sammy on Aug 14th, 2009 | one comment home title

This morning while at NIH we had a nutritionist come see us to give us lots of idea of things Gary could try eating to help him either gain or at least not lose more weight. It was very informative and I definitely have lots of ideas to try!

Well we had also talked to one of the docs this morning and after talking to her she realized that Gary probably needs some kind of medication that will make him hungry. She suggested a medication, that is completely legal, that is just like marijuana, and it should give him the munchies. There is a slight chance it could make him hallucinate and if it does we need to call a doctor immediately (guess they don’t like that reaction). So we’ll see if this works out. I sure hope it does.

Oh yeah and once we got back to our hotel, since Gary is outpatient now (WOOT!), I made my way to the local Safeway to go grocery shopping. While at NIH I managed to call our hotel up and get us a mini-fridge since it doesn’t come standard with our freaking large room. So since we have a fridge I now can buy cold stuff. So half an hour and Fifty Dollars later I walked out of there with this:

Here we’ve got Peanuts, Dried Pineapple, M&M’s, Cheese & Peanut Butter Sandwich Crackers, Carnation Instant Breakfast, Swiss Miss Hot Chocolate with Extra Marshmallows, Applesauce (for the prednisone), chocolate pudding, whole milk, apple juice, and yobaby yogurt (since it is made of whole milk).

Ordered to EAT!!!!!

Posted by Sammy on Aug 14th, 2009 | no comments home title

I knew it was coming, and secretly was hoping it was going to come. The doctor’s yesterday basically ordered Gary to eat and eat high calorie and high fat foods because he has lost over 40lbs since he started chemo back in June. That’s WAY too much weight loss, especially for a person that really didn’t have much weight to lose in the first place. We met with a nutritionist this morning that gave us a packet with all kinds of ideas to get him calories.

It does sound like they might even give him something to help increase his appetite. The doc did mention something about a marijuana-like medication that will help give him the munchies.

Right now he’s getting the last bit of Siplizumab (I don’t think I ever spell that right) and they should be switching him to his 24hr EPOCH bug within the next 15 minutes or so. Then we’ll be off to the hotel and I’ll be off to the supermarket in hunt of high calorie munchie type foods for the hotel.

Now I just need to keep MYSELF from eating this stuff because as he loses the weight I’m gaining it.