worse day since surgery

Aug 12, 2011

 WOW ! I had no idea what everyone called "dumping" was all about. I am 7 weeks out and this was a first for me. Yesterday from breakfast on was the worst day I have had since surgery. It started with breakfast my normal thing is one cup of coffee with creamer I take my AM meds with this. I could not finish the coffee or the meds,so I put them aside and decided to try later. At around nine am I had my usual scrambled egg measured at 1.5 oz one slice of crisp bacon. I did not even get half of it down till the pain started. intense pain with horrible heart burn. I stopped eating. I said OK I will wait till lunch and try again. Two tums later and hunger so bad my head was spinning. I made grilled chicken, Potato salad and baked beans. I has thought of this meal for two days. now its 2pm I get 1 fourth cup of potato salad half cup of beans carefully measured and 3ozs of chicken breast. one small bit of potato salad two bites of beans and perhaps half the chicken and it was on. Doubled over intense biting stabbing pain then the sweating started and the watery spit getting ready to upchuck. I haven't been that sick in a very long time. it lasted almost an hour and half before the pain stopped I could do nothing. After the pain started to subside I was exhausted totally drained. I took it easy the rest of the evening except for the 3 o'clock ice bath my dog has every day It has been so hot here in Texas that I started freezing a milk jug full of water cut the bottom out and give it to my outside dog in his kiddy pool. I dump the warm water out fill it with clean cool water and put the ice chunk in the water for him. This day he got the quickest cleaned pool ever. I was in so much pain. I managed to eat a total of 300 calories for the day. I could not even take my ice cold milk. It is usually my saving grace but not this day from hell. I don't know why this happened but I hope it never happens again.

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