4 hours left!

I'm working a half day for my last day, thus the 4 hours left. I am ready for Nashville, TN.

I spent the first 3 days of this week at UNC with a wonderful RD named Jennifer who works as a ketogenic diet dietitian on M/T and helps with other specialty areas on W. And I got to spend a bit of time with Sarah and Diane and hear Caroline's case study. On M/T we basically focused on one patient who was a 1yo little girl with severe seizures. Her mom desperately wanted to try the ketogenic diet and fully believed in its healing potential. She was on top of things. She read a whole book about the diet, constantly stayed at her daughter's side taking care of every need, bought the highest priced scale available to measure out formula and make different ketogenic recipes, and was willing to try anything Jennifer recommended regardless of the cost. I should mention that this mother was obviously not of a high SES and wore tattered clothing each day we were there. What a beautiful example of unselfishness she provided as she gave up everything to take tremendous, compassionate care of her little, suffering baby.

On W, we also saw a 17yo boy with CF who was on TF at night to help meet his needs. I never realized how annoying TF can be until he started talking about it. He said it makes him sick to even think about the formula being pumped inside of him, so he has to do it at night. But he rolls over a lot and pulls out the tube from the site, so his bed gets all soaked with formula. And his site leaks a lot, and he says that the acid leaking from his stomach burns his skin. Awful. I should have just recommended Cook Out milkshake TID (which would only have met 1/2 his calorie needs unfortunately).

I am about to burst with excitement about being finished. I will definitely be sad to leave all of my new Fayetteville friends though. A tear may be shed...