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DVBourassa

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  1. Hi, my name is Dianna and my father-in-law (age 55) is a long time smoker and was diagnosed with small cell lung cancer that has metastasized to his liver as well as COPD and diabetes Dec. 27, 2010. He has also had a heart attack previously so that is also an issue. Since then he has moved in with us so we can help him check his sugar (so far unable to do himself) and get him to his Dr. appointments. He will be starting his first round of chemo on Tuesday. My problem is that he is now supposed to eat a low sodium (for the heart problems) and diabetic diet. The diabetic part isn't too difficult but the low sodium has been difficult. Prior to his diagnoses he lived alone and had a steady diet of tv dinners, spaghetti sauce, ketchup, and chocolate milk. It's only been a week but he is unhappy with anything but what he used to eat. We've tried low sodium alternatives to his favorites (meatloaf, ketchup, and spaghetti) and he will eat a little bit but doesn't like those either. The only things that taste good to him seem to be full of salt (fries, regular ketchup, pizza, Wendys). Sometimes I just feel like I should let him eat what he wants but we don't want him to have a heart attack or extremely high blood sugar while he is also trying to fight this cancer. Not sure what to do.
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