 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: May 2002 Posts: 2,152 | If he is going to do Ensure, buy the Ensure Plus. Its 360 calories as opposed to 200. Vanilla, Coffee and Butter Pecan are the flavors I liked, the rest were awful. Boost made some tasy chocolate flavors but were only in the 200 calorie range. Right now the more calories per swallow, the better. I did not have the milkshake recipe, but that is a winner. You can vary that in a million ways. Nutrition is very important for healing. They also put me on Zinc, Vit C & E, and a multivitiamin to help promote healing. Ask before staring anything like this. That 1997 and things chnage.
Take care,
Eileen
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Aug 1997 unknown primary, Stage III
mets to 1 lymph node in neck; rt ND, 36 XRT rad
Aug 2001 tiny tumor on larynx, Stage I total laryngectomy; left ND
June 5, 2010 dx early stage breast cancer
June 9, 2011 SCC 1.5 cm hypo pharynx, 70% P-16 positive, no mets, Stage I
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