Thanks for the help Art, but I tried it and it didn't help him out much. The problem is that most of LB's food is pureed already, and if I make the food so that it's really runny he has trouble keeping it in his mouth and getting it down. You have given me an idea though, but so far it didn't work out. But that doesn't mean that I'm giving up.
I'm going to puree all his soup until it's basically the texture of liquid honey. The feeding therapist told me that's the consistancy he's supposed to be having. Well I'm going to pour it into his sippy cup and see if he'll take it that way. But I have to make it super thin.
The other problem in all of this is that LB is 7 years old and only weighs 20 lbs. I'm terrified that he's going to lose more weight, and he can't afford that. I'm giving him his 'fatten up' powder which is supposed to be a meal replacement that he takes between meals, well he's getting it 2 times a day. So I'm not worried about malnutrition. What I'm worried about is his fat content. LB is supposed to be on a heavy duty fat overloading diet, his muscles are so tight he burns something like 20 times the calories we do just by simple normal movement. Therefore he looses weight extremely easy. He only weighs 20 lbs, I don't think he has much fat on him to loose.
I mean look at his arms and legs in that photo. He doesn't look like he's got any meat on him at all. Click on any of the above images to get a better look at him, by all means.
Dot is home, she was up a lot last night coughing, so I thought that I'd keep her home from school. Just to make sure she's not getting what LB has.
9:54 a.m. - January 26, 2006
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