Barb, I would suggest that this is not an issue worth stressing over. Some sweet little thing with a nutritionist badge once told me that I needed 3,000 calories a day. I just smiled and dismissed her from my mind. I usually took in only two or three cans a day and I healed rapidly. I am 5'9" so not a small person. I just didn't need all that food, and that is the reason I had cases of it to donate later.

While Marvin will most probably need more food than I did, it is not going to hurt him to miss a few cans. At this point, having control of any aspect of one's own life is pretty darned important to a patient.

In just a few weeks things will be so different you will be amazed, so I suggest you have a cup of tea and let this issue go. You don't need to tell the doctors about this; if he loses weight, they will take notice.

Just some thoughts from a former patient's view.