{"id":15904,"date":"2011-08-23T14:09:49","date_gmt":"2011-08-23T21:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/313.15"},"modified":"2011-08-23T14:09:49","modified_gmt":"2011-08-23T21:09:49","slug":"feeding-the-ill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/2011\/08\/23\/feeding-the-ill\/","title":{"rendered":"Feeding the Ill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My wife sat hunched over her computer and beckoned me with her free hand.<br \/>\n\u201cI just got an email from someone\u2019s mom.\u00a0 Her son can only eat <em>Jevity<\/em> and there\u2019s a lapse in their insurance, so she\u2019s looking for any cans she can scrounge up until they come through.\u00a0 What do you think?\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cPerfect.\u201d\u00a0 I grinned, \u201cLet\u2019s feed him.\u201d<br \/>\nJevity is a liquid food substitute for people who cannot eat solid foods for whatever reasons.\u00a0 I had this stuff pumped directly into my stomach via a feeding tube for several weeks while I was undergoing cancer treatment.\u00a0 Unfortunately, this formula of food-in-a-can is quite expensive.\u00a0 I was lucky in that my insurance company paid for it.\u00a0 Others aren\u2019t quite so fortunate.<br \/>\nWhen I had my feeding tube removed, I had a few extra cases of Jevity left over.\u00a0 I decided that this would be a novel way to feed those who were not only in need of the rather expensive food, but are ill as well.\u00a0 My wife and I locate cancer clinic and chemotherapy treatment centers and donate these cans\u2014all adorned with the Rook symbol to those whose insurance doesn\u2019t cover the food completely.<br \/>\nIn this case, we had a specific person in mind.\u00a0 He had been in an accident and is apparently dealing with a lifetime of living off of this particular liquid diet.\u00a0 We loaded up a couple cases and ensured that her son will have something to nourish himself with until his insurance straightens things out.<br \/>\nIt seems that there are many ways to provide food for those in need.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>patrol blog by the rook<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16002,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,24],"tags":[413,499,652,907,923,956,1278,1985,2262,2693],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15904"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}