I was on TPN feedings for almost 4 months after treatment along with 1-3 bags of fluids per day. I was consuming over 4,000 calories a day for months with no weight gain and then the floodgates opened. I gained 11 one week and 50 in a month. If he is managed by a doctor and they are still doing labs regularly, they should guide you in the right direction. In cancer world there is one main number they look at for nutrition, albumin. My mother had normal levels at 50lbs a week before she died.

Have you considered having your husband talk to a cancer psychiatrist? They deal with so many cancer related issues that they may help him understand the importance as well as the impact on you. Best wishes.

Ed

SCC Stage IV, BOT, T2N2bM0
Cisplatin/5FU x 3, 40 days radiation
Diagnosis 07/21/03 tx completed 10/08/03
Post Radiation Lower Motor Neuron Syndrome 3/08.
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Dysautonomia 11/12
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Intermittent CHF 6/15
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VFI 12/2016
ORN 12/2017
Cardiac Event 06/2018
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Thoracotomy Bilobectomy 01/2022
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