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597. Meals in a Mug! Great idea from Meridian Magazine, especially when cooking for one person. And update on my husband Wayne D Eckman

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Eating alone?  These are great ideas for quick meals for one person!  I am looking at these kinds of ideas more now, as I eat alone often now.  My dear husband Wayne, whom I have mentioned often, is now on a feeding tube and can't eat anything more by mouth.  His esophageal cancer is progressing, and he recently had a touch of pneumonia at the bottom of his right lung.  That indicated aspirating from the esophagus, and if he were to continue eating even small amounts, it could cause pneumonia often.  For the last few weeks he had been able to eat only food pureed, or liquified, and only a few bites of each food.  I even had to put Cream of Wheat with milk into a blender, and tapioca with milk into a blender.      This was taken with Wayne, our daughter Angie (Angela) and me, in September 2014, at my 80th birthday party.      Yesterday we took him to the hospital with severe intestinal bleeding, and he will be there a few days.  He will have dialysis there today, and perh