thanks David I am a particularly strange talking person and have to be very careful with my words when talking to people Down Under, let alone globally.

You have given me some really great tips re the feeding - Alex is not ready for some of your solutions yet (no chance of getting 8oz of goo down him at this point unless it is mixed with beer)

I will ask though, what really bad things happen to those who don't eat or drink enough? Love of Life is an engineer and responds to facts not feelings. If I can tell him his risks, he will do the assessment and make the decision if the risk (nasty side effect) outweighs the benefit (opportunity to procrastinate). This is how he got his PEG one week after diagnosis and 12 weeks before radiation. It also helped that I was so enthusiastic about it and not "weirded out").

I have already told him you said in another thread that 3000 calories is the target and he responded positively saying that was what he was aiming for. Hmmf, this from the man who has consumed the extra 250cal he was instructed to by the dietician to take him up to 2250cals once maybe twice since he got home last Thursday. However, I have hope - you are a male, you know his issues, you are currently in the position he hopes to be in the future (minus 100 miles of torture on a bike)and he might listen to you as an expert. And best of all, you just gave him permission to keep being a kid