Re: New Patient Education Manual!!! Comments

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Hi Dr. R,

As a new post-op, I have some comments on the " Your Diet " section.

These comments may be insignificant, but I found these areas to be a

bit confusing.

1. In Stage I, which lasts from 10-14 days, we are to have liquids

only. But, the instructions also say to have " chicken noodle soup " .

I read it to mean to drink only the broth since we are on liquids

only.

Question: Are we supposed to eat the noodles and chicken that is in

the soup? My guess is NO!

2. Stage I (only liquids) ends at 10-14 days but Stage II is 10-24

days, where we can add soft foods.

Question: Since the stages overlap, when can soft foods be added:

Day 10, 11, 12, 13 or 14?

My guess was at Day 14.

I'm at Day 19 and feeling GREAT! No problems whatsoever. I've lost

15 pounds so far - could never have dreamed of losing that amount of

weight in the past.

Thanks again for your amazing surgery!

Sincerely,

Bernardine

, TX

7/24/00

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> Hi,

>

> New Version of the Patient Education Manual is available:

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> http://clos.net/pat-manual/pat-ed-manual081200.htm

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> You no longer need Adobe Acrobat to read/print it.

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> Suggestions and corrections are encouraged.

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> Note the ** Patient Letter ** sections!!!

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> We are not going to mail copies of the manual any longer.

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> Except in special circumstance we are going to request that you

download the

> manual.

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> RR

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