My husband noted that trying to eat during and immediately after treatment was a form of operant conditioning: every time you eat it hurts and tastes bad, so you are conditioned to not want to eat in your very own psychology lab experiment. He used to joke about the test lab rats getting zapped every time they went to get a food pellet. I think that it helped him when he realized what this was part of what was going on.

I agree with David about the nasal tube - nutrition without the 'zap'. It WILL get easier for him to eat, but it will take a while.

Maria

Maria