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ps emma -- GREAT job on the weight.

BIG KUDOS to you.

xo

anna

Not eatting...

> >

> > I know I've posted about this before but this time its worse. Grandma is

> > hardly eating AT

> > ALL the last 4 days. It seems to be getting less and less each day.

> > Yesterday the only

> > thing she ate was about half a portion of cream of wheat cereal (grand

> total

> > of maybe 300

> > calories). That was it ALL DAY. This morning I fixed her what she said

> she

> > wanted for

> > breakfast ( " I just want something light. " ), half a banana with about 3

> > spoonfuls of yogurt

> > and she played with it a little but ate none. The problem is that she

> seems

> > to think that

> > she has already eaten when she hasn't. When I asked her if the yogurt

> didn

> > t taste good or

> > if she wanted something else she said,

> >

> > " It tastes fine, there's just too much for me to eat. " (I'm telling you

> now

> > there is a grand

> > total of about 1/2 cup of food in that bowl and I even put it in a big

> bowl

> > to make it look

> > smaller.)

> >

> > So I said, " Well just eat as much as you can and we'll save the rest for

> > another time. "

> >

> > Grandma says, " I'm done. I can't eat anymore. "

> >

> > I say, " But Grandma you haven't eaten any at all! You haven't eaten much

> > the last few days

> > and I'm starting to get worried! Do you feel sick? Is something wrong? "

> >

> > " I ate almost all of that! No, I feel fine. I'm not worried about it. "

> >

> > I translated and shortened that conversation since she still isn't making

> a

> > lot of sense

> > when she talks but after a 10 minute conversation that was the gist of it.

> > This is starting to freak me out. She thinks she's eating when she isn't

> > and nothing I've

> > tried in the last 4 days has gotten her to eat more. She won't even drink

> > Ensure. She

> > drinks a little coffee and maybe one glass of water a day. She gets a few

> > spoonfuls of

> > apple sauce in with her pills but that hardly counts! Does anyone have

> any

> > other tricks or

> > am I going to have to wait this out until she is so weak we have to take

> her

> > to the hospital?

> > I make all her food with full fat components to get as many calories in

> her

> > as I can but if

> > she doesn't eat any of it that doesn't matter much.

> > Maybe I'm just already too tense but I can feel MY blood pressure rising

> by

> > the minute.

> > HELP!

> > Emma

> >

> >

> >

> > Welcome to LBDcaregivers.

> >

> >

> >