NOW they are going to mess with my diet - which is the one thing that has made me feel better, normal and healthy.
Included in all the paperwork I 'have' to read before my operation is a list of foods to avoid once it's taken place..
Things such as;
Nuts, cereals, fruits, pulses and seeds
Fruit smoothies
Lentil, pea and bean soups
Wholemeal flour including Rye bread, granary bread, chapati
Bran flakes, museli, porridge, shredded wheat
Brown rice
Anything containing Rye and whole grain - including crisp breads, oatcakes
Allowed:
Rice Crispies, Frosties, Coco pops (YUK!) :-(
White Rice :-(
White Flour, White bread, :-(
Tea/Coffee/Cocoa, clear soups
All milk and Dairy products :-(
Red Meat and Poultry
Clear soups
Then onto fruits and Vegetables which along with pulses makes up the main part of my current diet....
Avoid Allowed
Apples Bananas
Apricots Cherries
Berries (all) Citrus fruits
Damsons Grapes
Figs Melons
Mango Strawberries
Pears Nectarines
Plums Peaches
Dried Fruits (all) Pineapple
Guava
All currants (fresh and dried)
Prunes
Peas Potato without skin
Beans Bean Sprouts
Brussel Sprouts Asparagus
Chick Peas Bamboo Shoots
Lentils Beetroot
Okra Cauliflower
Parsnip Celery
Spring Greens Cucumber
Spinach Lettuce
Sweet Potato Mushroom
Sweet Corn Peppers
Turnip Pumpkin
Potatoes with skin Radish
Aubergine Swede
Broccoli Tomatoes
Cabbage Watercress
Carrots Courgette
Leeks
And they said this was going to be 'simple' and easy to adjust to..."Once it's done you'll be able to carry on exactly as normal Carole"....apart from learn to live with a bloody bag, change most of your wardrobe, buy new underwear, change your whole eating habits, eat white processed foods again, drink coffee and eat tons of dairy and meat....
If this is what they intend on feeding me in hospital I shall definitely come out weighing less than when I went in...all these months working on my diet, regaining weight and feeling healthy for them to feed me White bread and Coco Pops!........ I *don't* think so somehow....
I strongly suspect I will not be sticking to the recommended diet sheet once I escape from hospital. Trial and error will be the deciding factor on my diet - not this sheet.
Also, everything I've read up on about colostomy's says that people struggle like mad with Asparagus, mushrooms, Cauliflower - mainly due to excess gas caused..
Asparagus in particular seems to be a culprit of smelly gas and they stick this onto my 'allowed' list....Bah!
Wait til they find out I'm drinking grass - wonder what they'll make of *that*.....LOL
