Thursday, June 17, 2010
Eating. - Its Over -rated
Ok So I'm now able to eat. But I can't.. Well I can but alot of things aren't going down right. I made myself a scrambled egg and ate it.. It didn't stay down. It hurt my chest so badly, I must have eaten too fast or eaten too big of a piece but all I know is I WANTED it OUT .. It really hurt the middle of my chest and Finally it came up. YUK!!! It was nasty but I was glad it was out and the pain was gone. I needed to learn how to eat slowly and fast. This Vomiting thing sucks. Well My mom made something she calls " chop meat & peas" its made with tomato sauce, chop meat, onions and a can of peas. She makes mashed potato's with it and It was the first thing I was able to eat and keep down. It was REAL Food and tasted good. But I can't live on that everyday so I needed to try different things. Roast Chicken was ok but DRY and hard to swallow. Spaghetti NO WAY, no pasta as Its high in carbs and I can't swallow the pasta so that's Out. Afraid to try Eggs again but I did make egg salad and tuna salad and that was Ok but of course 1 can of tuna lasts me 2 days. The egg salad took me about 4 hours to finish the one egg but hey, I'm learning how to eat slow remember..lol NO Bread cuz its dry and I can't get it down yet. I'm constantly reading labels & as soon as I see 3grams of sugar or more, I put it down. I'm terrified of "dumping" (getting sick from sugars) so I try real hard not to dump, so far so good. I LOVE yogurt but the sugars in them are ridiculous. I was told Greek Yogurt.. but the texture of it is nasty and the taste is too. Not to mention the fruited ones are VERY high in sugars. So I'm not able to do yogurts. Soup Seems to be the thing I can eat or sip on without much problems. I've also eaten fish which is also dry so I need to find something to add to it to make it less dry. I've had a piece of orange which tasted SOOO Good.. of course I didn't really EAT the orange, I kinda sucked out the juice, chewed on it and spit out the meat of the orange. but it Still tasted good. I was about 2 months out when I had roast chicken at my mom's. It tasted good but I must have eaten a piece that was too dry and I knew it wasn't going to stay down. It took about 1/2 hour but I went to the bathroom and threw up. Problem was that the chicken didn't really come up but about a handful of blood did. I was scared. I called my parents in to look to make sure I was seeing what I was seeing. Yup it was blood. I called the Dr and he said to go to the ER. I didnt' feel sick. I wasn't going to the hospital when I didnt' feel sick so I didnt' go. The Dr's office called me the next day to find out how I made out, I told them I didn't go cuz I didn't feel sick. They wanted me to get another endoscopy to find out what's going on. So I called the Dr who did my scope before the gastric bypass and he agreed to scope me. I had the scope done on Thurs - June 10th 2010. Dr said my insides (don't know the correct name) was very tight and he had a problem getting the scope in but he pushed it thru and opened it up with the balloon. However, My throat & esophagus is VERY Red and inflamed so he put me on carafat liquid medicine. Which I heard helps dramatically, but the smell and taste is SOOO bad I can't take it. I tried once and it came back up. So I see my dr on Friday (tomorrow) so I'll ask him for a script for the pill version. I can swallow pills but they have to be small. Less then the size of an M&M.. I've not really been able to eat much since this scope cuz its sore inside when I swallow. I hope that things will get better soon. Eating is So Over-rated.. lol
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