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helping husband
by lyric1863, Mar 20, 2008 12:35PM
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My husband has COPD along with other issues relating to auto immune disorders. He has lost a significant amount of weight and looks much like a skeleton. It is scary to see how thin he is - I honestly have a hard time looking at him.
I can not get him to eat. I purchased Boost that he drinks instead of eating while I had in mind that he use it to increase his daily calories. So he is only getting about 900 calories a day with his 3 boosts a day and that is all he eats or drinks. The doctors prescribed marinol but that does not seem to help.
I just don't know what to do anymore. He is wasting away. I do not understand how he is just not wanting to try when I need him so much. I do not want to nag him all of the time, but I am tired of preparing meals to just throw them away. I am getting very depressed and am not going to be much of a caregiver like this. I just want him to want to help himself a little. But I can not make a grown man eat. He says he has not given up, but it looks like it to me.
Does anyone have any advice?
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