In an odd twist, after the National Eating Disorders Association conference in San Diego last week I drove up to Los Angeles to help out with my grandmother. She is - after decades of happily living alone, living in in a convalescent home.
She's there because she had a cold and got disorganized and didn't eat for a few days. Her neighbor found this fiesty, independent, 92 year old widow disoriented and unwell.
At the convalescent home, my grandma is getting huge lovely meals with whole milk and potato chips and dessert and good corn bread. And she eats it all. Does my heart good.
If you've met me, you know that I always wear a gold fork to symbolize the rule of full nutrition in recovery and to refute the silly notion that "it's not about the food" when you are malnourished. My friend Stephanie Millstein took this shot of me at NEDA wearing my usual lapel pin but also my Gold Fork Necklace made by the wonderful Carrie Arnold :
In an odd twist, after the National Eating Disorders Association conference in San Diego last week I drove up to Los Angeles to help out with my grandmother. She is - after decades of happily living alone, living in in a convalescent home.
She's there because she had a cold and got disorganized and didn't eat for a few days. Her neighbor found this fiesty, independent, 92 year old widow disoriented and unwell.
At the convalescent home, my grandma is getting huge lovely meals with whole milk and potato chips and dessert and good corn bread. And she eats it all. Does my heart good.
Geriatric anorexia is actually a serious problem out there. A bout of not eating can trigger a cascade of troubles that leads to death . Does this sound familiar?
If you've met me, you know that I always wear a gold fork to symbolize the rule of full nutrition in recovery and to refute the silly notion that "it's not about the food" when you are malnourished. My friend Stephanie Millstein took this shot of me at NEDA wearing my usual lapel pin but also my Gold Fork Necklace made by the wonderful Carrie Arnold :
For my grandmother: the power of the fork!