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I came home Wednesday evening, in fact - sorry I haven't posted an update sooner.
So, in case it wasn't clear (because I wasn't feeling any too clear headed, still, when I posted last) it was diverticulitis, which is when one has diverticulosis (pouches out from the lower intestin) and the pouches get infected. In my case, the infection seems to have eaten right through my intestine.
They did not do surgery - the opinion was that the holes should heal with a little rest. The way you rest your intestine is to eat a low-fiber diet and very little food. For about a day they kept me on the saline drip and no food at all, and then they let me move on to 'clear liquids', which means popsicles and bullion. Wednesday in the early afternoon they decided to let me try the post-operative diet, which is supposed to be low fiber. Surprisingly, to me, I was allowed cooked broccolie and mashed sweet potato. I tried that, and had no ill effects that I could tell, so they let me go home. They didn't seem too happy about it, but I really needed to go - that hospital bed was killing me. (My hips hurt so effing bad that it literally took a couple of days sleeping in my own bed, and taking Tylenol before laying down, before my hips felt normal.)
So, here I am, not allowed to go to work next week (and trying to keep all tasks around the house VERY light), and not allowed to eat vegetibles with all the veggies just starting to come in season. I was stalking my asparagus, just about to snap one off and maow it down raw, and Eor was like "are you allowed that?" NO. :( No, I'm not :( At least not raw. And my rhubarb is up and looking so attractive! No rhubarb for me. :( I bet those strings would do me in even if it was cooked to mush. I have had a couple of small servings of very well cooked radishes, because they're SO good. And I'm agonizing about whether my oatmeal has too much fiber, because I can feel the grittyness, and it is labled "whole grain". I'd eaten it for four days before I notieced that. Oatmeal was on the hospital food menu they gave me, but how do I know what kind the hospital serves? Turns out Quaker Instant has slightly less fiber than Bob's Red Mill. What a way to live. Glad I'm not working while I'm trying to adjust to this, and eating so little.
I'm also very happy that the week after next is vacation, anyway, because the doctors wanted me to go back to work restricted to not lifting more than 15lbs. Light duty always presents a huge difficulty at work.
So, in case it wasn't clear (because I wasn't feeling any too clear headed, still, when I posted last) it was diverticulitis, which is when one has diverticulosis (pouches out from the lower intestin) and the pouches get infected. In my case, the infection seems to have eaten right through my intestine.
They did not do surgery - the opinion was that the holes should heal with a little rest. The way you rest your intestine is to eat a low-fiber diet and very little food. For about a day they kept me on the saline drip and no food at all, and then they let me move on to 'clear liquids', which means popsicles and bullion. Wednesday in the early afternoon they decided to let me try the post-operative diet, which is supposed to be low fiber. Surprisingly, to me, I was allowed cooked broccolie and mashed sweet potato. I tried that, and had no ill effects that I could tell, so they let me go home. They didn't seem too happy about it, but I really needed to go - that hospital bed was killing me. (My hips hurt so effing bad that it literally took a couple of days sleeping in my own bed, and taking Tylenol before laying down, before my hips felt normal.)
So, here I am, not allowed to go to work next week (and trying to keep all tasks around the house VERY light), and not allowed to eat vegetibles with all the veggies just starting to come in season. I was stalking my asparagus, just about to snap one off and maow it down raw, and Eor was like "are you allowed that?" NO. :( No, I'm not :( At least not raw. And my rhubarb is up and looking so attractive! No rhubarb for me. :( I bet those strings would do me in even if it was cooked to mush. I have had a couple of small servings of very well cooked radishes, because they're SO good. And I'm agonizing about whether my oatmeal has too much fiber, because I can feel the grittyness, and it is labled "whole grain". I'd eaten it for four days before I notieced that. Oatmeal was on the hospital food menu they gave me, but how do I know what kind the hospital serves? Turns out Quaker Instant has slightly less fiber than Bob's Red Mill. What a way to live. Glad I'm not working while I'm trying to adjust to this, and eating so little.
I'm also very happy that the week after next is vacation, anyway, because the doctors wanted me to go back to work restricted to not lifting more than 15lbs. Light duty always presents a huge difficulty at work.
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