So, while Mum is now nicely settled in her new digs, has passed her probation (!) and pretty much expects to be received as royalty by all people at all times, we can focus on Dad a little bit more.

Dad has always been a skinny malinky but he’s been taking things to extremes.  To be fair, it’s not his fault.  He has very little appetite and when you are fighting to breathe a lot of the time it takes up many calories, and eating can be tricky  – sometimes impossible. And even just cooking some potatoes to go with a pasty is too much to manage some days.

So we’re on a bit of a losing battle…or we were.  Until Pog’s Chaotic Kitchen Care (my especially created enterprise 😁) stepped up and started creating seriously high calorie snacks  and dinners from scratch (so I could fit in all the calories) in tiny portions that were’t too overwhelming.

This is what week one looked like:

(This is obviously after I had cleared up the complete chaos I’d created.  I am still that girl who only ate toast an yoghurt for many, many single years due to lack of cooking skills at heart 🤦🏼‍♀️)

Obviously because nothing tends to go to plan, Dad got an infection in his mouth and when he finally could eat, it was only ice cream that he could face.

But since he got better he’s been having one of the Pog’s CKC meals a night, and sometimes the really tiny pots not in the picture for lunch, and do you know what?

In the last two weeks Dad has put ON a whole pound!

After losing pounds for the last few months I count that as a win.  And we will keep on keeping on.  And who knows?  Maybe Pog’s Chaotic Kitchen Care will become a thing….(for people not adverse to the odd Percy hair in their home made lasagne, obviously 😁)