Two months, today!

[Guest guest]

Just want to say, the surgeon was right: it's continuing to get better. Slowly,

slowly, slowly -- but so far almost all in the right direction. No PPIs in a

month. Had a tiny " pizza " (cheese on a flour tortilla, lol!) for dinner. I've

gained enough weight! Twenty five pounds! But you know: it really looks good.

Never thought I'd say suchofathang, but man: when you look like a concentration

camp survivor, getting back a few of your curves is *very* nice. . . .

Yep: there are still things that have problems: rice, chief among them. I just

don't seem to be able to remember two swallows of liquid for every one of rice.

Luckily, I'm about to go back to low carb, so rice won't be any real problem

(very often). And any meat *really* needs almost too much chewing. Well,

anything that's still whole on the plate. Ground is fine, and I still do a lot

of chicken puree, just because I actually like it. And I still haven't figured

out exactly what I can eat in public. But then, I don't do that often anyways.

I'm *still* enjoying the wonderful wonderful feeling of drinking half a cup of

coffee and *feeling* it go ALL THE WAY DOWN. It still feels like a pure miracle

to me. I hope I'm able to maintain that sense of wonder.

The hair loss has virtually stopped. Gonna be a ways back, but we're moving

forward instead of backwards.

And one day, soon, I'm going to start opening the bills from the hospitals, and

see what the rest of the damage looks like. Erp.

, enjoying an early spring in the mountains of West Virginia

[Guest guest]

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I am glad to hear you are doing better and gaining weight! Pizza used to be one

of my favorite foods but I still don't do too well with it. If you're gaining

weight that definitely means you are moving forward. Good sign! I don't do too

well with rice either. Probably a good thing and I too really like minced

chicken. I put it in fettucine alfredo and it tastes fabulous!! I do miss

burgers but like you said meat in general is too hard to chew. I have yet to

grind up ground beef and try that but eventually!!

 

Stay healthy!!

 

Kim A

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From: puddleriver13 <puddleriver13@...>

achalasia

Sent: Monday, February 27, 2012 10:42 PM

Subject: Two months, today!

 

Just want to say, the surgeon was right: it's continuing to get better. Slowly,

slowly, slowly -- but so far almost all in the right direction. No PPIs in a

month. Had a tiny " pizza " (cheese on a flour tortilla, lol!) for dinner. I've

gained enough weight! Twenty five pounds! But you know: it really looks good.

Never thought I'd say suchofathang, but man: when you look like a concentration

camp survivor, getting back a few of your curves is *very* nice. . . .

Yep: there are still things that have problems: rice, chief among them. I just

don't seem to be able to remember two swallows of liquid for every one of rice.

Luckily, I'm about to go back to low carb, so rice won't be any real problem

(very often). And any meat *really* needs almost too much chewing. Well,

anything that's still whole on the plate. Ground is fine, and I still do a lot

of chicken puree, just because I actually like it. And I still haven't figured

out exactly what I can eat in public. But then, I don't do that often anyways.

I'm *still* enjoying the wonderful wonderful feeling of drinking half a cup of

coffee and *feeling* it go ALL THE WAY DOWN. It still feels like a pure miracle

to me. I hope I'm able to maintain that sense of wonder.

The hair loss has virtually stopped. Gonna be a ways back, but we're moving

forward instead of backwards.

And one day, soon, I'm going to start opening the bills from the hospitals, and

see what the rest of the damage looks like. Erp.

, enjoying an early spring in the mountains of West Virginia