Monday, 2/28 -- Puree that cherry cheesecake please.

Today we have begun to experiment with various kinds of foods that will be good to go into the feeding tube. All liquids are good, but Ensure is not what I want to be living off of until I get better. Good, rich broths and creamy soups can be great for the tube. So can all types of no-pulp juices.

Melted ice cream is a good high calorie drink too.

The only thing we have to be careful of is carbonation and things with solid chunks floating about. Can’t clog the tube or give me excess gas.

Sure, I can’t taste any of it. But I do want more of a balanced diet. I could probably start taking all kinds of crazy vitamins since I don’t have to swallow them. Chug down vat after vat of Omega 3 fish oil. Cold green tea out the whaazoooooo.

General health issues:
Headaches are gone
Numbness in the extremities
Blurry vision is getting worse.
Weakness is progressing. (The stairs take everything out me, for example)
I spend most of my day in the hospital bed. I can’t stand without help and close supervision.
Breathing and coughing are about the same. The coughing is actually a little improved but it still brings up all sorts of ugly things from my throat.

Thank you all for the many e-mails of support. They do help. I just wish my voice would return because there are so many people out there I want to talk to. I would like to have a Steven Hawking Style Voice synthesizer on the computer. That would be fun and creepy at the same time.

Bye for now.