Carrie's Story - Page 2 - ThinnerTimes

Duckie · 09-17-2006, 12:01 PM

Do you have protein drinks? like carnation instant breakfast? Yes, it is important that you stay hydrated but you also have to get the protein in for proper healing. Hang in there. Small, frequent sips are what you need. Good luck sweetie. We are here for you.

chilmoe · 09-17-2006, 12:02 PM

thank you that makes me feel better, yup i spit out the foam too, water is not too easy, but i am trying it as i do need it, the soup is too easy, not sure why that is?

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Originally Posted by AlabamaChick

Carrie, you have been through alot! I'm happy you are home and safe now. I had that foamy feeling when I came home also he frist few weeks. I had to keep spitting it out actually. Felt like it stayed in my throat. I had problems sipping too. I lived off of sugarfree popsicles. That was how I got most of my liquids in for a while. Water made me sick, sick, sick. I also had hunger pains starting about a week and a half out, so it's normal. I was afraid that my surgery did not work too because of hunger pains, but I am CERTAIN now that it did. The funny thing about hunger pains is IF you could eat something solid, ONE bite right now would fill you up! LOL I think what we believe are hunger pains may be the pouch adjusting and healing from what it has been through and may not necessarily mean hunger. It has been cut apart, so give it some time to heal. All of my sensations were jumbled up for a while and were really strange. Everything felt different. I could not decipher hunger from fullness for a few weeks. It's sort of like having a new baby and it crying and you go through the list of things to see what is wrong and will make it stop crying. It was trial and error to figure out what made the pouch happy. WELCOME TO THE LOSING SIDE!!!!!!

chilmoe · 09-17-2006, 12:06 PM

i am going to the store tomorrow to get protein drinks and vitamins will try the instant breakfast that sounds good thanks

im so glad i found all of you, my new best friends

Duckie · 09-17-2006, 12:09 PM

ANYTIME! That is why we are here hon.

If you get carnation instant breakfast, make sure it is SUGAR FREE! It should be mixed with 2% milk.
Any protein drink that you get: watch the sugar content. YOu want HIGH protein and LOW sugar. Good luck.

chilmoe · 09-17-2006, 12:11 PM

okay im gonna print your thread out and take it shopping, sugar free and all that, thanks i didnt look into it much yet, but thanks that sure helps

LisaBoston · 09-17-2006, 12:11 PM

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lisa,
i do have to say the nursing staff was absolutely amazing and wonderful and yes Nohr is a great doctor i even told him that, it was the techs that seemed to have it in for me and getting phemonia due to no one including myself not cluing into the fact that i musta had a chest infection upon arriving but it being chalked upto nerves, that was where things went wrong, without that i think i would have been okay, and for the morphine it would have passed, it was only becuase of the morphine i was left to lay down for 12 hours that it turned to phenmonia, but again, if i had caught that i had a chest infection that would never had happened, but neither would my surgery that day, so really it turned out for the best, maybe that is why i am blessed with such a quick recovery, we will see how it goes over the next few days, i was considering going back to work tomorrow (office work) as i am feeling like i should be doing something, but my hubby advises against it, maybe i will actually listen to him for once....not sure yet

WORK.....no way girl...you rest..you don't want to run yourself down before getting well. You might feel great today, but don't push it...trust me on this. I too am in an office, and there was no way I could function this early out.

I forgot to say, that I lived on lots of jello, SF popsicles, cream soup for the first few weeks. Nohr has us starting on soft/puree foods at about 3 weeks, but only 1 new thing a day.

The foam is usually caused by eating or drinking too fast or your pouch not happy with what you put in. I still get it with salmon sometimes if I don't slow down to eat. Apparently as we don't have stomach acid anymore the slime or foam is breaks down our food as it heads into the intestine.

chilmoe · 09-17-2006, 12:14 PM

okay i will stay home tomorrow other than the little shopping trip for protein stuff, s/f popsicles, and vitamins

thanks

AlabamaChick · 09-17-2006, 12:20 PM

I think it's a good idea to stay home from work as long as you can. I had a burst of energy and felt really good too around the second week or so and then things quickly deteriorated again for a bit. I think I was doing too much too fast. I work at home so I only took off for a week and was back at it, not full speed of course, but I think I wore myself out so actually it set me back some, and all I do is sit at my computer and type all day. So take it easy as long as you can. Your body needs it.

chilmoe · 09-17-2006, 05:08 PM

can someone give me a daily menu of what, how much, when you eat and drink?

i know i am on liquid/blended diet right now, so anyone that can offer that and also for when i can eat

thanks

LisaBoston · 09-17-2006, 05:51 PM

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Originally Posted by chilmoe

can someone give me a daily menu of what, how much, when you eat and drink?

i know i am on liquid/blended diet right now, so anyone that can offer that and also for when i can eat

thanks

Carrie at almost a week out I would eat:

B- yogurt
S- jello and or popsicles
L- cream soup and applesauce
S- jello
D- cream soup again
S - chicken in a mug soup - no noodles

Basically that was it for the first 2 weeks for me. I tried protein drinks, but could not do them at this point. I can now. If you can disguise the protein powder into things, even the better.

S= snack.....Nohr doesn't like snacks, but at this early out, I did them to keep up my stength. I drank about 8-16oz a day of propel or herbal tea at this point...I had a hard time getting in any more. Hot cocoa made with splenda and milk powder.

Hope this helps.

At the 2-3 week mark, I added in scrambled eggs, puree anything, soup that was blended - few chunks, oatmeal, cereal, cheese, a little fish.

Key thing is to eat very small, keep up the fluids, take your vitamins and rest.