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Update: Need get better gift idea: meat/potatoes guy with heart troubles

glenn1

glenn1

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So a relative is in the hospital getting treated for a heart condition. Dude is young (mid 40s), works in the skilled trades and won't eat vegetables if a gun was to his head. Even now his hospital bed meals awaiting valve replacement and other surgeries have been Hooters wings, Krispy Kreme donuts, etc.

Anyway, wanted to get him and his wifey a gift to be delivered at hospital since we are unable to visit, need ideas? He wouldn't appreciate flowers, getting him a "healthy food" chef prepared meal service wouldn't get eaten, and I don't want to enable him by sending some meal he would actually like ("want to super-size that artery clogger special"?). Looking to spend no more than $75-100 tops, needs to be something available nationally or can be delivered or gotten from a local location where he is (Richmond VA).

TIA.

Update: decided to send some varieties of nuts from a famous regional supplier. Sometimes you have to take what you can get, and having him eat some almonds (good for heart), cashews (low calorie) and peanuts (good for the brain, which he badly needs) might be as good as anything we can get which he would actually partake of.
 
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Your friend does not seem like a meat and potatos guy. He sounds like a donut and donut and donut and sugar" guy.

Get the guy a diabetes sugar level testing kit and buy him like 100 strips. Tell him you prefer your family to be alive and to have some semblance of quality of life rather than dead, and this is a good way to preserve his vision as well as his fingers and toes.

If that is too brash, then steam like 100 different veggies, bring them to him, and tell him you are going to do what his mom should have done when he was 5 years old. He is human, humans are supposed to eat veggies, if he wont eat them, its not because he does not like them, its because he is crazy.
 
What about drinking his veggies?

Get him a nutribullet or a Juicer.

Maybe even Joe's Cross video "Fat Sick and Nearly Dead."
 
what about a Kindle and an Amazon gift card?

my Kindle was a lifesaver when I was stuck in the hospital for a week... I was reading books too fast to wait on my family/friends to drop off stuff for me to read because I was so bored.
 
With that kind of attitude and seeming lack of desire to change anything about his lifestyle he'll be dead by 50.

I'd help his wife start shopping for life insurance policies.
 
Veggie steak and potatoes!!

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Second vote for the Kindle and Amazon gift card. I suggest the Paperwhite version-it has a built in light for not that much more.
 
I feel like any kind of "healthy" gift is just going to be seen as condescending and tossed to the wayside.

I'm sure he's already getting a hefty dose of being told what to do from his wife/doctors.
 
glenn1 said:
Even now his hospital bed meals awaiting valve replacement and other surgeries have been Hooters wings, Krispy Kreme donuts, etc.

...getting him a "healthy food" chef prepared meal service wouldn't get eaten, and I don't want to enable him by sending some meal he would actually like ("want to super-size that artery clogger special"?).
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I'd give him the "WTF are you doing" speech in one form or another; he seems like he wants to commit suicide in as indirect a fashion as possible.

If he actually takes your advice it would be the best present you could ever give him (assuming that he wants to live).

If you don't care much for him then get him what he wants.

I feel for any doctor who has to treat him though, imagine trying to save someone's life (when he inevitably ends up in ER), then see them do that.

On second thought - suggest a DNR tattoo.
 
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glenn1 said:
So a relative is in the hospital getting treated for a heart condition. Dude is young (mid 40s), works in the skilled trades and won't eat vegetables if a gun was to his head. Even now his hospital bed meals awaiting valve replacement and other surgeries have been Hooters wings, Krispy Kreme donuts, etc.

Anyway, wanted to get him and his wifey a gift to be delivered at hospital since we are unable to visit, need ideas? He wouldn't appreciate flowers, getting him a "healthy food" chef prepared meal service wouldn't get eaten, and I don't want to enable him by sending some meal he would actually like ("want to super-size that artery clogger special"?). Looking to spend no more than $75-100 tops, needs to be something available nationally or can be delivered or gotten from a local location where he is (Richmond VA).

TIA.
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Tradesman, meat and potatoes? He sounds like he might appreciate a nice blade. Get him a nice fixed blade (infinite options under $100) and throw in a whole foods gift card inside a "get well soon" card. Write "here's your first step towards a healthier lifestyle. not" bla bla bla etc.

You're welcome.
 
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With that kind of attitude and seeming lack of desire to change anything about his lifestyle he'll be dead by 50.

I'd help his wife start shopping for life insurance policies.
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This.

Good luck getting coverage though if he's in the hospital at age 40 with a serious heart condition.
 
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