Hi Karen
Alex and I are so special we have THREE dieticians/nutritionists, and not one of them have mentioned an ability to organise anything at no cost. Wonder if this has something to do with our different Health departments, or maybe it is an age/pension thing. The Two Cal was certainly very cheap (about $1.60 per day) but definitely not free. The Nutrison is another kettle of fish and could run us bankrupt if we hadn't both just given up smoking (fanfare now please). Lovely Louise (queen of the dieticians), put us in touch with the Nutricia people who loaned us a free pump, but the feeds plus tubing bits are over $650 per month for 2000 calories a day. Louise knows we are in a financial bind (who isn't in this situation)so surely she would have told us if no cost was an option? Will report back

Thanks again, Karen

Having said that, the group hug is on tomorrow, I will ask her. And maybe hit up our soon to be new Social Worker too. I will also see if she knows anyone in Victoria in her job that can enlighten us on the differences between states. I work with doctors specialising in treating HIV and I KNOW that there is one clinic in Melbourne which charges nothing for prescriptions whilst there are none in NSW (or the rest of Australia as far as I can remember). Maybe this is a similar thing.