Thanks all -
It's been a rough week - D brought her weight up to 102 over last weekend but then returned to purging and lost 6 lbs. over the next 3 days It's just like dealing with a drug addict, they can be so sneaky.

We considered admitting her yesterday to the hospital, went and spoke with the admitting psychiatrist, but in the end decided to give it one more go at home. He added a new medication, Zyprexa, and I think she was upset enough at the prospect of hospitalization to be a little more cooperative about eating at home. We are keeping her out of school over the next week and shadowing her 24/7 - I have to sit with her when she showers so she can't vomit there, she's sleeping on the floor in our bedroom, etc. etc. Poor thing, she's so sick - all she can think about is her "abs", how disgusting they look after she eats, how fat she is (at 5'4" 96 lbs.!).

H is a great support, but unfortunately it really requires just one person to be in charge of the eating, and I'm it. Also, frankly, he's just a little too tenderhearted to deal with all of the venom that comes out when you are standing in the way of her vomiting. I, on the other hand, have had excellent training here in ignoring alien-speak
Still, he's taking great care of me, so I can take care of her.

I'll be watching a lot of videos with D over the next week or so, and we've already exhausted most of the good new ones, so I'd welcome any and all recommendations for good slightly older movies to rent - romantic comedies, comedies, anything uplifting. We saw Secondhand Lions last night, great movie, wonderful cast.

Meanwhile, I'm reading a book about The Great Influenza - the 1918 epidemic - does anyone see a trend here? First Shackleton's antarctic expedition, then a worldwide disaster - somehow reading about people who were way worse off helps me keep my perspective, I think

Ellie