CLEAR LIQUIDS EXTENDED 2 MORE WEEKS!!HELP..I AM FLIPPING!!: ' (

HI THERE FELLOW LOSERS!!! I AM 16 DAYS POST-OP AND BOY WAS I LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS PAST MONDAY..OH YEH..TUBE REMOVED AND AN UPGRADE TO THE FULL LIQUID DIET. MASHED POTATOES, CREAM OF WHEAT, SUGAR FREE PUDDING,(I SALIVATE AS I WRITE). YET THERE WAS JUST A TINY LITTLE 'FLY IN THE OINTMENT'...WHEN PREPARING MY GROCERY LIST FOR MY POST-OP DAYS, I CALLED A STAFF MEMBER AND WAS TOLD TO USE GLUCERNA FOR MY PROTEIN. SO WHY DID I REMAIN ILL, I ASK? AND AFTER 11 GLORIOUS DAYS OF DRINKING THIS MAJORLY FOUL LIQUID AT ROOM TEMP, I MIGHT ADD....I CALL MY DIETICIAN. HER RESPONSE WAS "WHY?".....SO, NEXT CHAPTER...SHE RECOMMENDS MY CLEAR LIQUIDS BE EXTENDED FOR 1 WEEK(AND I FELT THIS TO BE VERY COLD), BUT WE ARE GOING TO LEAVE THIS IN THE DR.'S VERY CAPABLE HANDS....HE THEN EXTENDS THIS 'CLEAR LIQUID' DIET FOR 2 WEEKS. I THROW UP 1-2X PER DAY, HAVE LIQUID 'GLUEY POOEY' ACCIDENTS ALSO 1-2X PER DAY..ANYWAY..AND NOW MUST BE ON LIQUIDS FOR A STINKING MONTH!!!!!!!! I DO PROTEST AND LOUDLY! PLS LET ME KNOW IF THERE IS ANYONE AMONG YOU WHO IS SUFFERING SO, THAT I MAY HAVE A 'KINDRED SPIRIT'. AND THO I DO WRITE THIS IN A WHIMSICAL FASHION, I AM, IN FACT, TIRED-WEAK- AND VERY DISCOURAGED/FRUSTRATED. SO LEND ME YOUR LOVE AND I WILL AGAIN RE-BUILD MY DETERMINATION TO SURVIVE THIS. MANY THANX, CINDY MAE

I have no answers or advice at all. I'm just sorry that it is so tough. We were talking about how our new pouches are like newborns--each seems to come with a distinct personality. Looks like you got a colicky one! I am concerned by your vomiting. Did your doctor have any reason for this? Did he have any concern that you might have a stricture? If this continues I would insist that he check. Do not allow yourself to get dehydrated! I'm sending hugs your way... Joy

Oh, yes, I have to do soft foods for a week longer than I hoped. I'm taking an antibiotic that is absolutely so foul I have to steel myself for half an hour to take it, due to a post op infection. Before someone on line gave me a sweet lactose-free ice milk recipe, I threw it up. So, since I threw up fairly violently, the surgeon said....do not pass Go. Do not collect fish or eggs or pureed vegetables. If it had been through bad office advice, I woulda gone postal. I also have had one experience that was my fault. I substituted Wheatena for the Cream of Wheat on my doctor's list. It felt like I had swallowed ground glass, agonizing pain, and then it all came up. Very textbook. And very nasty. So now I am a good girl and a believer. Ya know? (But I'm not bitter...much) Gano

Hmm...you'd've "gone postal"??? From what I hear, that's a GOOD thing these days....means you collect thousands of tons of food for food banks every May, you're constantly involved in community services of all types, you've won the Tour De France for FIVE years in a row, everyday carriers become embarrassed heroes when they save elderly people who've fallen and can't get up, general good things like that. Just in their jobs, it means that they deliver birthday cards to grandchildren who live across the nation or the world from their beloved grandparents, it brings the SSI checks and retirement checks to those of our elders who've retired and are on fixed incomes, it means that our deployed troops overseas get thousands of tons of care packages and letters from their loved ones stateside... Now that moldy old 'catch phrase' lends to CEOs and Business Owners who whack their employees for their own selfish greed while their employees make barely minimum wage and have no benefits or retirement to look forward to. What's that..."going management?" BWAHHAHAH!! Sorry...just couldn't resist. Hang in there, Gano...this, too, shall pass. A few weeks of unappetitable foodstuffs is NOTHING in comparison to a lifetime pre-op of bad eating that brought us here, and is ABSOLUTELY nothing compared to your future lifetime of health and happiness. Kimmer Queen of the Niners, Instigator to All Marchers, High Priestess of Giggles.

I know that has to suck beyond belief. The only thing I can say is it will get better. In a month this will be a bad memory. Keep your chin up and if the vomiting keeps up I would make sure the DR dows something. LaDonna Myette==>Teri