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Orangeredblooded said:
Happy Belated Birthday to you both! I knew you hadn’t posted in awhile about what was going on with his health issues and figured you might have been in the ‘grateful’ lull of what’s going on. Enjoy this lull while you can, I just wanted you to know there’s others that think about your situation. Sports are a good distraction. Now we get to enjoy recruiting again and you get moment peace time with hubby 🙂.
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Thank you!

And I'm absolutely grateful. Before his last hospitalization things had gotten to the point where I really couldn't take care of him and the hospice that we were with told us that they'd only feel comfortable re-admitting him if he went to a home first so they could eval him. I wasn't willing to do that so we lost service with them. Things were pretty bleak and I hated the service we had after** that *but* then we finally got him to UT and the docs there were able to bring him back to me. Not a little back but all the way back. Most of last year he was not in his right mind. He wasn't able to walk very well and had trouble with things like getting dressed.

Now it's night and day and I'm determined to enjoy it while it lasts. The hard part now is keeping his spirits up. We both want him to live and live well but his diagnosis is bad because his platelets are so low that any kind of surgery is off the table.

**The service we have now is great and we have a nurse that cheers him up every time she visits. She even bought him a milkshake for his birthday!

ETA: Y'all have no idea how much this board has meant to me. Every one of you has helped me keep my sanity.
 
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SSVol said:
I'm still not a fan of what NIL is doing to college ball as a whole, but it was always gonna benefit some schools much more than others. So glad it's likely us, and it is utterly glorious seeing the previous undisputed recruiting champions panicking. Their tears are delicious.
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I feel like you do about it. I just hope it doesn't turn into just pulling for a team of pure mercenaries that are just about money and don't give a single crap about Vol Nation.
 
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UTProf said:
Thank you!

And I'm absolutely grateful. Before his last hospitalization things had gotten to the point where I really couldn't take care of him and the hospice that we were with told us that they'd only feel comfortable re-admitting him if he went to a home first so they could eval him. I wasn't willing to do that so we lost service with them. Things were pretty bleak and I hated the service we had after** that *but* then we finally got him to UT and the docs there were able to bring him back to me. Not a little back but all the way back. Most of last year he was not in his right mind. He wasn't able to walk very well and had trouble with things like getting dressed.

Now it's night and day and I'm determined to enjoy it while it lasts. The hard part now is keeping his spirits up. We both want him to live and live well but his diagnosis is bad because his platelets are so low that any kind of surgery is off the table.

**The service we have now is great and we have a nurse that cheers him up every time she visits. She even bought him a milkshake for his birthday!

ETA: Y'all have no idea how much this board has meant to me. Every one of you has helped me keep my sanity.
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My heart is with you. I don’t know how his appetite is, but I imagine it’s not great. If he likes milkshakes, sneak ensure in them. Sweets will actually stimulate appetite.
 
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Orangeredblooded said:
My heart is with you. I don’t know how his appetite is, but I imagine it’s not great. If he likes milkshakes, sneak ensure in them. Sweets will actually stimulate appetite.
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He drinks at least one Boost or Ensure a day. He got hooked on Wild Berry but unfortunately we can't find that flavor in stores and due to changes they don't give us Boosts/Ensure anymore unless patients are only eating 1 bite of food a day. His appetite has come and gone and come again. For a while, I couldn't get him to eat anything and he was so slim that it was painful to look at him. Now, he's hungry but almost only for sweets. It's been weird how much his tastes have changed. Boost and ice cream is his main diet - lol. I give him a hard time about it sometimes because he does eat a lot of ice cream but I remember when he was barely eating at all.

And I had no idea sweets stimulated appetite. Learn something new every day!
 
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I know I shouldn't be, but I'm just genuinely stunned how many people who watch and consume college football seem to think this is the first time players are making decisions based on money. Like what did you think was happening? That Kirby bleeping Smart was just THAT compelling of a personality? It's insulting to everyone's intelligence that they think the few teams that monopolized the sport just did it because they connected well with players. This writer actually wrote this sentence for other people to read and to find profound or something: "He (Kirby Smart) builds relationships, finds high-character kids, and then recruits those who are coachable."

What.
 
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UTProf said:
He drinks at least one Boost or Ensure a day. He got hooked on Wild Berry but unfortunately we can't find that flavor in stores and due to changes they don't give us Boosts/Ensure anymore unless patients are only eating 1 bite of food a day. His appetite has come and gone and come again. For a while, I couldn't get him to eat anything and he was so slim that it was painful to look at him. Now, he's hungry but almost only for sweets. It's been weird how much his tastes have changed. Boost and ice cream is his main diet - lol. I give him a hard time about it sometimes because he does eat a lot of ice cream but I remember when he was barely eating at all.

And I had no idea sweets stimulated appetite. Learn something new every day!
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Give a bite or two of some sort of dessert and put real food in front of him, set it to the side and wait to see what he does. If he focuses on the dessert, move it a little more out of eyesight with more promise of the dessert. I don’t know how much he likes chocolate, but I found that flavor works best where I work, but you have to go with whatever flavor (chocolate, berry, tropical, etc that they respond to best).
 
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HoleInTheRoof said:
I told them cops I said did you know if you threw me in jail I would be released in five minutes and then cops said are you threatening me and I said no those are just facts and they said why and I said because I am so respected throughout the community and I have connections!

- Andy R-Word Bowser on Swain today
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Playdo said:
I know I shouldn't be, but I'm just genuinely stunned how many people who watch and consume college football seem to think this is the first time players are making decisions based on money. Like what did you think was happening? That Kirby bleeping Smart was just THAT compelling of a personality? It's insulting to everyone's intelligence that they think the few teams that monopolized the sport just did it because they connected well with players. This writer actually wrote this sentence for other people to read and to find profound or something: "He (Kirby Smart) builds relationships, finds high-character kids, and then recruits those who are coachable."

What.
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Knute Rockne paid players. He and UK are the reason the NCAA exists. But before he got caught the Ivy League (which ruled football) was doing the same thing. It was so bad that they decided that football was a corrupting force and they probably weren't wrong but their reaction to it was extreme. They got rid of athletic scholarships altogether and tuition being what it was that killed their competitiveness.
 
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Playdo said:
I know I shouldn't be, but I'm just genuinely stunned how many people who watch and consume college football seem to think this is the first time players are making decisions based on money. Like what did you think was happening? That Kirby bleeping Smart was just THAT compelling of a personality? It's insulting to everyone's intelligence that they think the few teams that monopolized the sport just did it because they connected well with players. This writer actually wrote this sentence for other people to read and to find profound or something: "He (Kirby Smart) builds relationships, finds high-character kids, and then recruits those who are coachable."

What.
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There is still a faction of those fanbases that think top talent went their mainly because of their HC lol Now that players getting paid is legal boosters are no longer running recruiting
 
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Orangeredblooded said:
Give a bite or two of some sort of dessert and put real food in front of him, set it to the side and wait to see what he does. If he focuses on the dessert, move it a little more out of eyesight with more promise of the dessert. I don’t know how much he likes chocolate, but I found that flavor works best where I work, but you have to go with whatever flavor (chocolate, berry, tropical, etc that they respond to best).
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I may try that. I've kinda forced supper on him most days but it's about the only real food he eats. What's so weird is that prior to getting sick he never had a sweet tooth. His mom was an amazing baker -- she did multilayer wedding cakes and was a baking god (I mean that). She really should've had her own shop and had she'd have been born in a city she'd have been a top pastry chef competing in the Bocuse D'or and yet growing up and even into adulthood he never had a sweet tooth. Only when he got sick did he start eating sweets and now it's about the only thing he craves.
 
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UTProf said:
I may try that. I've kinda forced supper on him most days but it's about the only real food he eats. What's so weird is that prior to getting sick he never had a sweet tooth. His mom was an amazing baker -- she did multilayer wedding cakes and was a baking god (I mean that). She really should've had her own shop and had she'd have been born in a city she'd have been a top pastry chef competing in the Bocuse D'or and yet growing up and even into adulthood he never had a sweet tooth. Only when he got sick did he start eating sweets and now it's about the only thing he craves.
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There’s a reason nurses give (hides) meds in jelly, peanut butter, ice cream, etc. If you get a chance, let me know how it goes.
 
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