Pregnant Without Food and Water

Living life on total parenteral nutrition

Julia Marsiglio
Found In My Journal
10 min readOct 1, 2021

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A young woman lies in a hospital bed with an IV pole behind her. She is dreaming of all kinds of food, demonstrated by a thought bubble filled with foods like tacos, pancakes, fruits, meat dishes and vegetables.
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Life has a way of circumventing all our plans. I remember sitting in my clinical nutrition class learning about TPN (total parenteral nutrition).

“It’s the last resort, of course. Because of the risk for sepsis and other negative outcomes.”

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I answer rhetorical questions. Intersectional feminism. Neurodivergence. Trauma. Grief. Canada things. A smattering of poetry and fiction.