Day 5 and still eating well

Gowned and Masked for a Walk

I brought Heidi a box of vacation cereal today.  Lucky Charms, to be specific.  The term vacation cereal is from my childhood.  My parents wouldn't let us have sugar cereal except when we went on vacation.  Ideally it should have been a multipack of little boxes, but I couldn't find those.  This isn't really vacation, but she still gets the cereal. 

The food in the hospital is much better than expected.  It's not just meatloaf and chicken parmesan.  They have a full menu.  Heidi can order anything off the menu anytime between 6:30am-7:30pm.  Usually I have to remind her to order because she isn't hungry often.  Her second day here she was talking to the order-taker on the phone asking why they didn't have more snack food.  He mentioned potato chips and rice krispy treats.  Heidi exclamed, "those aren't on the menu."  He said they were on the kids menu.  Heidi hung up and hit the call button on her remote.  She's had two menus ever since.  She usually orders from both.  Actually, that just makes ordering her food take twice as long as usual.  Those of you who have been out to dinner with her know what I mean. 

At dinner time she was going through her usual decision catatonia when I suggested pizza.  A friend had brought cookies from Rocco's pizza earlier in the day.  Unfortunately they don't deliver so I drove there and picked it up.  I also bought a beer on the way.  Although I am drinking the beer, it had to be in the photo.

Ahhhh . . . pizza (and beer for Scott)

I brought M&M's and Skittles earlier today.  Other friends brought Hot Tamales.  Heidi hasn't opened any of them.  There is a refrigerator on the floor that is stocked with yogurt, soda and ice cream sandwiches.  I offer Heidi an ice cream sandwich 5 times per day, but she hasn't had one yet.  She's gained weight, but it's all from the gallons of saline they're pumping through her port and all the dead cells building up in her blood.  That stuff will all pee out over the next few weeks.  But the ice cream sandwiches, forgoing those is just wrong.