USNS Mercy open for business... and treating a small patient for severe malnutrition.

I KNOW TPN, because my wife hasn't eaten solid food in a year. 2nd pic is my wife's TPN refrigerator. (see video next tweet)

Doctors do not casually administer TPN. This costs our insurance $2,000/week. If the patient was able to eat food orally, the food would be given that way.

Pray for the small ones being rescued.

TPN = Total Parenteral Nutrition
It's for when the digestive tract is not working, either from disease, or severe malnutrition and organ failure. With deep personalized nutrition, right into the bloodstream, every part of the body can receive what it needs to heal.

Some of the rescued have a lot of healing to do.
Right hand pic is a scarred and withered knee. Doctors thumb can be seen from hand supporting it.
The ear shows the patient is either deformed... or has severe scar damage. (like a wrestler's ear)