I know that some readers may think I am referring to a certain university by that name in Houston, but in fact I'm talking about that simple white (or brown) vegetable we all take for granted--and eaten by literally billions of people around the world as their major staple. I now know why they can live on rice, almost exclusively. While watching Susan prepare some carrots for her "solids to liquids" campaign, I decided to do a search on the Internet for nutritional values of common foods. What I found was a nutritional site sponsored by Northwestern University. It showed that you'd have to eat a lot of carrots to match just a cup of rice in terms of calories per unit volume (44 calories per cup for the latter). Only potatoes and yogurt were higher. Since we were fresh out of rice, off I went to the local Tom Thumb to get a few pounds of the white stuff, and a box of rice pudding mix. On my arrival home Susan cooked up the latter and as I write this is waiting to see how it lands.
She had a tough night last night: pain and nausea again. I'm hoping this was the chemo and not a worsening of last week's digestive symptoms. On the positive side, she felt well enough by mid-morning to go with me to church--her first attendance there in over a month.
Posted by John Dishman at March 2, 2003 01:58 PM