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I Went To The Er This Morning ...

CVWillis

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I had to breakdown and go to the ER ... for the last 2 days each night around 9pm or 10pm I would get sick to the point of throwing up. Friday I brought some sugar-free popsicles and had one on the way home and one around 8pm. The one on the way home went down very smoothly. I was so happy. I felt the impending doom of dehydrating was over I FOUND something that I could get down ... NOT!!! They made me earl ... dry-heave ... and my lips where red. Because of that bowel prep (which I can't get over enough to drink sports drinks) so I've been suffering.

 

In the ER I got 2 wonderful bags of fluids and the Dr. told me my color came back. HUH?!?!?!?!?!? I'm of African decent, my color can't leave ... well evidently it did!!!!! Also in the ER I was given 2 cups of ice which I ate like it was steak!

 

Sitting there sopping up the ice it dawn on me that maybe I should have crushed ice at home and that the food coloring in the popsicles where the culprit to the throwing up. My daughter has migraines and her Dr. suggested that she control them based on her diet, so she doesn't eat a lot things including commercial red and blue food dye. So I ditched the Popsicles and Crystal light and pulled out the Magic Bullet and shaved me some ice!

 

That was going ok, however after my nap I woke up filling full and dreaming that Krsytals started selling turkey burgers ... lol!!! I was confused by the full feeling but noticed upon waking my mouth was open ... I was breathing through my mouth, which I usually don't do! So I surmised that I took in air into my sleeve hence the full feeling and when I got up there was the pain in my shoulder. I did laps around the house burped and farted; listened to my sleeve gurgle and rumble and I started feeling better.

 

Also while in the hospital I decided that I wanted some watermelon. Which is crazy for me for 2 reasons: 1) I don't like watermelon whenever it is in a fruit bowl I pick around it and 2) I am a stickler for eating local in season fruits and veggies. But I went to wal-mart and got some of the melon. I chewed up a piece and it was orgasmic! I didn't swallow the meat. I had 2 cubes and loved each one! Thinking of freezing it and putting it in the MB.

 

So what did I learned??? Not to consume Red dye, shaved ice maybe life-saving and watermelon ain't that bad!!!!

 

It's 3 hours before the witching hour ... praying that tonight is different!!!!!



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I also hope that tonight is different!

Silly question. How do you know what's in season? Nowadays we get fruit from all over the world so I have no idea! *** (embarrased, hanging head)***

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Praying for things to smooth out for you. I'm SOOOOO glad you mentioned the shaved ice!! I have an ice shaver i use in the summer time to make the kids snow cones. I think this device will be a life saver!!! Thanks!

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Watermelon was my first fruit. I mainly sucked the juice out of it and spat out the fiber at first. Sometimes we have to listen to our bodies.

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Well dying to know how your night went...I had the stomach flu about 1 year out and it was HORRIBLE!!! I had my husband use the snow cone machine and I ate ice like crazy. It was wonderful. Watermelon was my first fruit too. It was super yummmmmmy. Still my favorite. At 1 year out it is one of only a few fruits I will eat FYI cantelope was 2nd.

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@longer life -to know what's fruits are in season I think about what I remember eating as a child during each season. But you are so right its hard to know because everything is available all the time. Like the watermelon it was from Guatemala.

Yesterday I felt like crap on a stick! But around 3am I decided that I was going to get my fluid in regardless so, I started drinking tea, crystal light with out dye, and ensure. And tonight as I'm writing this I feel great!!!! However it is not without throwing up several times today. I feel like I'm over the hump!

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sounds like you could be taking "in" too much for your pouch at a time, between air and fluid ...remember pouch has capacity of around 1 cup...and empties slowly... sip very little sips all the time so it really doesn't sit in your pouch for any length of time. No drinking 1/2 hour before eating and no drinking for 2 hours after food. watermelon, i thought, had a lot of water content. slow, slow, i think is the key ... it seems to me that if you overload your pouch, it only has 1 way to go... UP.... hope you all feel better ...

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