Hi Michelle Maybe you can try a different approach.
Craig is barely eating 3 meals a day and won't eat the whole meal just pick off what he can stomach. I've told him that he has to supplement with the Boost Plus because he isn't getting enough vitamins!
As he is barely able to swallow his chemo meds (let alone a big 'ol horsepill-sized vitamin) he is taking the Boost as his vitamin pill equivalent to make up for any vitamin deficiencies.
I also mentioned the possibility of getting scurvy if he doesn't get enough Vitamin C and that his teeth will fall out as a result(something he fears) and showed him the side of the Boost where it lists all the vitamins it contains including Vitamin C.
He's not giving me much trouble with this anymore. He's drinking at least one Boost Plus a day.
Maybe this might work for your hubby?
Marina, wife of Craig, 52 former smoker/drinker quit 9 years ago. dx Feb 2008, SCC Stage 4a Tongue with mets to left and right neck lymph nodes. Cisplatin x 3 and concurrent IMRT x 35 (scheduled to end May 1/08) We have two children, 3 and 2, and #3 is on the way. |