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How much does one lose in a week...
...in the hospital?
This was the burning question asked in my last blog entry. It always
cracks me up when some newbie comes into the chat room and asks, "How
much can I expect to loose [sic] in a week?" My response is usually a
facetious, "*results not typical."
OK, but I've just done some empirical testing with hospital food and
some catabolic surgery involving several vertebra, followed by a
secondary bacterial infection and a tertiary candida infection caused
by the powerful Vancomycin I was on for five days. (Listening
carefully? There will be a test.) The hospital food involved was
typical three "squares," with stuff like chicken with gravy, scrambled
eggs, meat loaf, turkey...yeah, like totally bland. There was no jello,
but there was plenty of stuff like strawberry shortcake, banana pudding
with vanilla wafers, and pears in syrup. Yummy yummy yummy! (I continue
my NutriCheating!)
It ain't really cheating, folks when your doctor prescribes it and the
hospital dietitians say it ain't. And it ain't really yummo, either.
And the "tum-tum" is never in great shape after total system shutdown
due to anesthesia. However, you'll be pleased to know that the hospital
food was an apt provider of NutriFlatulence.
And now, the big number!!! What did I "loose" in a week in the hospital
with almost complete immobilization while being hydrated from a saline
drip? I thought that you'd be interested in knowing that I lost 11.5
lbs.* Don't congratulate me--it wasn't intended!
*results not typical
And now, the more important
and less facetious part of this blog. I will have a limited amount of
time available for doing computer tasks, so I want to thank each of you
here for your wonderful well wishes during my ordeal. It is heartening
to know that I have so many NutriFriends. I wish I could respond more
personally to each of you, but this will have to do for now. Thank you,
thank you, thank you!
I'll be pretty immobile for 12 weeks, so we'll
have to see how that works out in the scheme of things. I'll be mixing
NutriStuff with real food over that period. Walking is about the only
viable exercise for me, and those of you who know me will know that
that is my preferred exercise, anyway. I hope these three months pass
quickly and I can get rid of this damn neck brace soon thereafter, as
it will be rather funky by then!
Your Atypical Result,
Ben
Published Monday, July 16, 2007 05:05 PM by CondoMax
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