Tuesday, March 22, 2011

A Medical Mystery

I have a medical mystery that needs to be solved:

Why does sitting in a hospital room make me eat?

It doesn't make any sense, does it?  I thought I had it figured out a few months ago.  Mom did not have an appetite a few months ago and the doctors gave her a medicine that would make her hungry.  I was sitting in the recliner next to her bed when they put the med into her IV and I immediately got up and bought a Snickers bar.

She doesn't have that problem this time, though, and I just got back from the cafeteria.  I bought peach cobbler and Miss Vickie's Jalapeno potato chips.  For me, not for her.  Her room is on the seventh floor and I have walked up the stairs once to get off this extra weight, but you can't carry your food very well and climb the stairs.

Any scientific explanations would be appreciated.

2 comments:

  1. We'll be praying for your mom and for you! I think the eating is a nervous way to "satisfy" the anxiety about the unknown - is with me! Love you and give your mom a hug from me.

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  2. We just wish mom would WANT to eat all that and be able to so really we do it for her to maybe tempt her a little, so you go ahead and eat sister!!

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