Not quite a second verse, more an update really. I’m yet to learn what I can, can’t, should and shouldn’t eat. So far, with most of the stomach gone, I don’t feel at all hungry, good yes? Well, two-sided sword this one. If I don’t feel hungry, I don’t eat, if I don’t eat I have no energy, and no energy equals no Chris.
With this in mind, I need food. First problem, I have a small stomach recently hacked about so tender, sore, and requiring some TLC before it’s filled with good quality snacks. The issue is that these foods need to be virtually liquid in order to prevent them from causing damage to the newly sewn-up organ. Now trying to find good quality, high-protein foods that are entirely liquid isn’t an easy task and I’ve been spectacularly failing to find them, well in quantities that would make up a satisfying total of calories.
Theoretically, I suppose I could exist on meal supplements and meal replacements if I ate enough of them, but apart from being really boring, it’d be really expensive so that approach is out of the window. I found a few ‘high protein shakes’ that we’d bought some time ago which will do for a start. Actually, according to the blurbs, for the first two weeks at least, drinking ‘shakes’ is the way to go. I bought some foods in advance of the surgery to use to make shakes, but so far I’ve stuck to the meal replacements we already have but thinned down with additional (skimmed) milk. We also have some ‘bone broth’ and that’s currently what I’m having for lunch… a lovely bowl of Pho Broth which has virtually no taste but, seems to contain buckets of salt. Other than that, it’s fine (note the sarcasm). I may have another bowl in a few minutes, after all, if the alternative is nothing, what can you do?
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