Hi Renee, thanks for asking. The liquids really suck. He has me on a 10 day clear liquid diet, which consists of 3 cups a day of apple, grape, cranberry juice, or Gatorade; clear broths, decaf coffee or tea w/ no sugar or creamer; SF jello; SF popsicles or SF frozen fruit bars; SF kool aid & Crystal Light; and 2 or 3 protein drinks a day mixed w/ water only. I can't wait until this part of it is over. I think I need to buy stock in Cottonelle toilet paper, because I get the diarrea at least 3-4 times a days. Makes me wonder why, when I don't have any food in my body to get rid of. Sorry...TMI!!! Anyway, I really have to wonder about the theory of the whole pre-op diet. A couple of days ago, I was talking a lady who lives near me who had surgery last month, and weighed 120 lbs MORE than me. She also had Dr. Eid at Magee. Get this...her pre-op diet was much easier than mine. It was only 7 days instead of 10. And she was allowed milk, and cream of chicken, mushroom, and celery soups until 2 days before the surgery. Go figure, huh? Since she weighed 120 lbs more than me, you'd think our pre-op diets would have been reversed, and she said the same thing. Then I thought, that maybe she had lost a huge amount of weight during the 6 month period, and that's why she got an easier diet...maybe because he figured her liver had already shrunk. Nope, she didn't lose anything during that time frame. And I lost 20 lbs since starting my classes, so you'd think my liver had shrunk some during that. We both concluded that Dr. Eid is using his patients as "human lab rats", lol. He is an assistant professor at Pitt, and is highly involved in research. We figured he must have different pre-op diets that he gives out, and studies the results on the person. Does that make any sense, or do I have pre-op diet brain fog? Believe me, I've had a lot of brain fog lately...I spelled my own name wrong the other day.
