My Aging Father's Decline: A Son's Photo Journal

Eating Is Often a Miserable Experience
I realize now why my mother cooked the same meals over and over toward the end of her life. They were the only ones my father would eat. The one thing he loves is eggs: scrambled eggs; egg salad; egg-drop soup. He eats insane amounts of eggs. And yet, when I took him to the doctor recently, his cholesterol was down. Maybe there are health benefits to an all-egg diet.

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