Monday, June 27, 2005
Calories
Since Jacob isn't allowed to eat any outside food, he and Ellie have been cooking the things he misses. Today they made truly outstanding eggrolls: succulent and tasty and a complete success in terms of maximizing calories. Unfortunately, I don't really need to maximize calories, but its a small (and delicious) sacrifice.
Jacob ate nearly 600 calories today: the most so far. He's really trying hard, motivated by the prospect of getting off the IV. It's only for 12 hours at night, and the pumps fit in a back pack, so there's no pole to push around, but still, he's tired of it. The reality, though, is he'll still have 10 to 12 hours of IV hydration every night, even after they stop the TPN (total paraenteral nutrition.)
We've been exploring parts of the Stanford campus we never found when we were students here twenty years ago. Today, while E and J cooked, Young and I visited the Arizona Cactus garden where Young took pictures:
and the Stanford Mausoleum, which has some really terrific sphinxes:
Jacob ate nearly 600 calories today: the most so far. He's really trying hard, motivated by the prospect of getting off the IV. It's only for 12 hours at night, and the pumps fit in a back pack, so there's no pole to push around, but still, he's tired of it. The reality, though, is he'll still have 10 to 12 hours of IV hydration every night, even after they stop the TPN (total paraenteral nutrition.)
We've been exploring parts of the Stanford campus we never found when we were students here twenty years ago. Today, while E and J cooked, Young and I visited the Arizona Cactus garden where Young took pictures:
and the Stanford Mausoleum, which has some really terrific sphinxes:
# posted by Ann @ 10:22 PM 
