Originally Posted by
KDaddy23
I've been learning that acidic and spicy are no longer my friends although I can tolerate spicy more than acidic - but some habits are hard to break when you don't think of them as habits, like how I love tomato basil soup... but my throat doesn't. Okay. Improvise, adapt, and overcome. It's hard to be patient when you have doctors bugging you about eating and, again, I'm the one to point out to them that if I can't swallow the stuff they want me to eat, that's a problem, ain't it? What I get back is, "Do the best you can!" and... what the fuck do you think I've been doing? Add in an image of me rolling my eyes so you can get the full flavor of this "duh" moment with learned doctors.
It's a process and one that includes learning some stuff the hard way because I don't know what I can eat that's not going to piss my throat off and that's going to cut down the things I can eat to maintain my weight so I can get rid of my PEG tube and... you see where this is going, right? I just sigh, kiss and make up with my throat, and keep it moving. I will say that my throat feels better today than it did, say, a month ago and when I had to make sure that I had an emesis tray nearby and handy because of all the spitting I was doing and with thick saliva trying to clog everything up so, yeah, today's throat is a major improvement... and it's not my fault that I didn't know that drink had lemonade in it before I found out it did!
I only needed one shot of magic mouthwash to calm my throat down; this, too, is an improvement and while my doctors are loathe to say how long it might take my throat to heal, they are happy with how things are going when they're looking down my throat; I've gone from "It's very red!" to "It's still a little red!" so, progress. The important part is that if any member winds up with this kind of cancer - and they've been reading my updates and stuff - they can have good idea of what they're going to have to go through - and you gotta go through it.