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Making the Best of It

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"That is a very positive attitude" said the home care pharmacist almost congratulating me. Had this woman been in front of me, she would have seen me holding back the tears. "We'll have to make the best of it" had been my reply to her question about whether adding two more hours of TPN a day would create a problem for us. She knew that at 18 hours a day we would have to disconnect Caleb's central line sometime in the middle of the night. We will indeed have to make the best of it. There is a story about Piglet inviting his friends for a snack of haycorn muffins. With so much work ahead of him, he opens his cookbook, flips through the pages, and carefully reads the list of ingredients. But, alas, when he checks his cupboard there is "No flour, no honey, and worst of all, no haycorns!" With a basket over his arm, Piglet sets out to gather what he needs. As he finishes filling his basket with haycorns, along comes Tigger and bounces all the