Thank you so much for sharing your time and experiences. I believe the patch might be kicking in a a bit. Hope so. And Christine thank you for the reminder about hot showers with the patch. While I read it in the literature earlier, well, to be honest, I had completely forgotten, and just today we were planning to get him into the shower - argh! Wish I had a memory!

Jerry does well with water -- by tube and mouth -- but food thru tube has not been complete success. Every night about eight he throws up (ouch!), and then today, during a feeding it just stopped flowing in. We tried to put water in but it would not go either. Gave it another 30 mins and was able to get 4 oz thru. Then at the onset of the next feeding a couple hours later, right after hooking up and before pouring in liquid food, Jerry coughed. The vial filled up with stomach liquid and then did not want to go back. Gave it a few minutes and put water in, not the food. Went thru ok and we went ahead and put in the 12 oz of food. Since he cannot eat by mouth anymore, and the only 'food' we were provided by the nutritionist, is a whole 375 cal per can, I am trying to get 6-7 cans in a day. And since he gets ill around 8 p.m., have been trying to get them in before 6:30 7:00 which means an 8-oz can about every 2 hrs. Is that too often? Could his stomach be backing up? We see the doctor tomorrow and I believe it is a question worth asking -- especially if his weight has dropped even further -- but thought I'd get out to this group for any thoughts, recommendations, scoldings... Thank you! I am being paged. Thank you again!