At clinic today I was quite proud of myself in saying that I am getting over 2000 calories in a day which, to me, is a day's food.
What I didn't understand is that the radiotherapy burns calories and I should be getting in closer to 4000!
In order to get 4000 in I think that I would have to be eating constantly because the rate at which I am able to eat is so slow.
What it does explain is why I feel constantly famished. I can polish off 500 calories of rice pudding which although it is not the biggest meal should keep me fed for a while, but I am starving in less than an hour.
It was suggested that it may be time to use the oral morphine to make eating easier but I certainly have to keep getting the calories up. Getting to a stage where I am operable in terms of the tumour but inoperable due to malnutrition is a possibility if things were to worsen. I am currently a long way from that but it is important to keep pushing forward
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