I hope you can find some help. I know about the older/harder thing too, I'm 57. When my appendix burst when I was 52 and there were 5 months worth of complications, have all the intestinal things too (and where I think my asthma came from). It's heck when we mess ourselves up and get older! Would be wonderful to be back in our "youth" and make a few "different" decisions but I guess we made the best ones we could for ourselves at the time, there's always trade-offs.

Have you been able to add anything to your diet recently? I know you've been really trying. That has to be thoroughly frustrating. Can you do simple gelatins (no sugar)? That's what they fed me after I could start eating again in the hospital after being on IV for a week. I've told that story before, they asked me what color I wanted, yellow, green, orange, etc.? Turned out it was just colored, no flavor or anything in it, just "gelatin". I was so pissed after a week of not eating, I wanted flavor so bad :-)