First and foremost: wishing you a speedy mend, @liuzhou.
That food, though? It's looking awesome from over thisaway. Awesome. It's been too long since I've had good Chinese food, dang.
In the mid-80s, one of my cousins married a woman who was the head dietician for the VA hospital in Chicago. This.Woman.Could.BURN!!! Meaning -- could cook her butt off. ohmyGOODNESS was her home food good.
When my parents were ailing, she was always coming through with all of these amazing suggestions for packing more calories into the food, so that any bites I could persuade them to get down would bring the most bang for the misery. I would call her all the time, I guess for more support than just feeding tips.
She retired and moved back to her very rural Alabama home, which happened to be (sort of) near a facility that I had to travel to regularly for work. I would always -- ALWAYS -- aim to drop in on her country kitchen after a day's work, which would add a full two hours to my trek home. Two hours following, ahem, having been well-fed, country-style.
I never ate her hospital food, but somehow I believe this woman was throwing down for those vets.
