My Medical Therapy Report Card

Medical Therapy	Grade	Comments
Immuran	D	·          Student consistently took the medication, however did not seem to benefit much from it ·        Student complained of hair loss ·         She could improve by being increasingly patient waiting for results that will never come
Prednisone	B-	·       Student was successful in eating her parents out of house and home ·       She successfully stayed up very late and lived on little sleep ·       Student showed fantastic improvement in energy levels and bowel symptoms ·       However, due to mania induced by this medication the student was an absolute nutter
Cirpro/Flagyl	D	·       Student’s body failed to meet the criteria of success on this therapy ·       In this area she showed little improvement in her bowels and energy levels ·       We advise she drop this course.
Naso-Gastric Tube Feeding	A+	·       Student was successful in achieving weight gain ·       She also successfully completed a musical while on this therapy, singing despite the tube in her throat ·       For this we congratulate her.
Salofalk	C-	·       Student failed to show much improvement ·       Our standards are that the student improves and takes every dose of medication ·       The student said that the huge number of horse pills were “too difficult” to keep up with ·       Maybe you as a parent can talk to her
Remmicade	A	·       Student showed excellent performance with this treatment. ·         Bowels and energy levels became normalized and on par with her peers ·       She is no longer behind her class in this section
Humira	A-	·       Student showed a continuation of already established strengths. ·       Keep up the good work.
FK-506	A-	·       Student maintained already decent status. ·       However, our concern is that if not every assignment is completed, student will fall behind after only one.

"Are you hungry?" "No"

In December I had an encounter with the rarely found, but very effective zinc deficiency. This caused me to have a raccoon like rash around my eyes, nausea, altered taste perception, and above all else, reduced appetite. Because of this I was brought in and hospitalized, due to my nutrition markers being so low. In the hospital, alongside nocturnal tube feeding, I was encouraged to eat, well, as much as I could. Awesome right? Nah. I was disgusted by food. I’m not saying I wasn’t hungry, I’m saying I was REPULSED by food. The thought of it made me queasy, the sight made me gag and I just couldn’t eat. The hospital food, did NOT make it any easier. Here is the menu that I would typically follow in the hospital, and let me make it clear, that in terms of choice and selection, I had one of the best available.

Breakfast: Breakfast would consist of a mini container of cheerios (exactly 80 calories worth) a half a cup of soymilk, half a cup of diced, canned peaches in water (not syrup) and one sugar packet on my cereal.

Lunch: I somehow managed to get myself assigned the same diet as the patients that were in the rehab hospital, so my lunch options were usually pretty good. I guess if you’re in rehab, you’re in for a while, so you get better lunches. Go figure. My lunch usually consisted of a fruit plate, which I got solely for the grapes, French fries (Mmm! They were a lot like the fries from KFC), a cup of soup that was usually vegetable or chicken noodle and a sort of vegetable that varied from carrot sticks to coleslaw. Lunch overall was pretty decent and I can’t complain about it.

Dinner: Dinner. Oh dinner, how is possible for a meal to go so wrong? The meat options were always terrible, beyond terrible, so I usually opted for the sandwich provided it wasn’t a salmon sandwich. I made that mistake once, it was nasty. Alongside my sandwich I would get about a half a cup of plain, white rice. It was the cheap stuff with no flavor. I would also get about a half a cup of boiled to death wax beans….tasty. I’d also get some sort of dessert, either jello, banana

Other: I’m sure this category is the main reason I didn’t starve in the hospital. I would eat soda crackers and Cracker barrel individual cheese. I would eat small individual ice creams at really weird times, like before breakfast or right before I went to sleep. I ate a LOT of baked chips. Nurses would share food with me at night so I ate a lot of fruit from fruit trays (melon <3), I also drank a lot of hot chocolate. I loved hot chocolate in there.

Thank you all for returning to my blog despite my disgustingly long hiatus. I promise there will be more posts very soon! Muah!