Nancy is still troubled by the process of getting pills down, food swallowed, and having it all proceed through as it is supposed to.\u00a0 The upper end of her digestive system seems to take issue with what most of us would consider food.\u00a0 However, she does fine with fortified liquid drinks, especially if chocolate infused.\u00a0 She has also reached accommodation with yogurt (orange cream) and various puddings, and last night with supper she was given pur\u00e9ed strawberries. These are high calorie items and can be fortified with protein, vitamins, and minerals and so, nutrition-wise, she is being adequately supplied.<\/p>\n
Much of the issue with real food develops with the acts of chewing and swallowing, and, of course preference.\u00a0 A finely chopped egg or tuna mix (no bread) will suit her, \u00a0but ham salad mix will present a problem if the ham had a rind on it that wasn\u2019t taken off prior to grinding or chopping.\u00a0 She won\u2019t deal with those pieces and in trying to separate them out much of the dish is trash.\u00a0 \u00a0A ground beef\u2013noodles\u2013sauce dish is no better than one with an outer rind because of pieces of gristle.\u00a0 In this institutional setting there isn\u2019t much hope for refinement.<\/p>\n
With her physical abilities improving (slightly) each day we can look forward to the time when she is home and I can begin with better ingredients and take the time to improve them with selective cutting and discards.<\/p>\n
She remains scheduled for a trip to the local hospital to have a \u201cmodified Barium swallow\u201d study.\u00a0 It will be something like this: She will be given small amounts of a Barium preparation of varying consistencies from thin liquids to paste to a piece of coated cookie. As each of these is ingested the examiner(s) will observe images in real time on a screen and determine if and where there are problems.\u00a0 Nancy is scheduled for early afternoon this Friday and afterwards I will know more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Nancy is still troubled by the process of getting pills down, food swallowed, and having it all proceed through as it is supposed to.\u00a0 The upper end of her digestive system seems to take issue with what most of us would consider food.\u00a0 However, she does fine with fortified liquid drinks, especially if chocolate infused.\u00a0 … Continue reading “TUESDAY — a lot like Monday”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-issues"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p72iNf-5m","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions\/334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}