Praise God, praise God, praise God. Did he ever come through BIG time! Okay, so I'm prepared to come back to toil and trouble...another valley time. No. No. Not at all. I come back to a man who is eating like crazy and NO LONGER REQUIRES A FEEDING TUBE! Apparently the tube has been causing problems...probably ever since the site of the tube started leaking back in March. The deal with the "output" mentioned earlier is that his tube site (small intestine...where the feeding tube was inserted) was leaking all of his nutrition right out of his body. Since he's eating like crazy, the doctor pulled the tube...to let it HEAL AND CLOSE. How amazing? How amazing! I'm in awe and oh so grateful.