I was sleeved may 19th. I don't know how long I'm out. I think I'm starting my fourth week on Monday. Anyway, I got approved to move to puréed foods at my last visit. I've been having baby food, eggs, tuna with mayo and mash potatoes- well very little of it maybe an oz or so. Comfortable with these but not easy.

This weekend I decided to cook my family a middle eastern influenced dinner. I smashed the hell out of some so I can eat it, but holy moly!!!! I thought death came for me. I had this tight feeling in my chest. I couldn't breathe. All of a sudden I also got bubble guts. I thought it was the end of me. I laid down, sat up, walked around and got through it. I drank a sip of Water after 20 minutes and even started to feel better. You would think I learned my lesson. NO! The next day, I started thinking maybe I ate too fast, didn't chew enough or I ate too big of a serving and decided to redo it. Well how else I'm I going to learn? Huh! Omg!!!!!! I did it to myself again., really bad. This time praying I didn't hurt my insides.

Yea, I know. It was stupid!!! But here is the thing... I keep reading all of the different eating phases people have post surgery. So many surgeons differ in eating plans that I thought maybe mine could be different.

Lesson learned staying on smooth foods, baby foods and yogurt for at least another 3.5 weeks. Don't think I'll be ready before then. No longer want to experiment!

Anyone else try something similarly stupid?

Lorri

Don't be so hard on yourself... Middle Eastern food is SOOOOOO delicious!

You will enjoy great food again, just not yet! Those are some painful reminders, eh? But if I had to go the rest of my life without Turkish food, I'd almost choose to stay fluffy. ALMOST.

I did it to myself with chicken, of all things :/ I did puree it (made a chicken salad), and my insides very loudly protested that chicken was not acceptable. *sigh*

I would have sooner mashed something tasty for the amount of pain rather than something so blah that's actually on the puree diet.

Agreed! thanks for your support. Can't wait to have a bit of tastier foods with no pain!

LR

Oh, you have a twin in me. I wasn't bright enough to stick to the 1 -2 Tbsp per meal and ate 4 Tbsp of a mixture of mashed potato and mushy ham salad. It was so good and I ate it slowly but... I ate it all. Much pain and gurgling and regret. Can I not follow directions and save myself some pain? Apparently not, because this morning I drank my Protein shake too quickly and as I felt it back up in my esophagus the pain was worse than night before and I almost couldn't catch my breath. Severe gurgling followed the pain and I haven't had anything other than some sips of Water since Breakfast.

I admit the pain is overshadowed by the mental image of my stomach springing a leak. I can't help feeling that I've really strained my staples with these two stupid events.

Going to stick to sips of water today.

PLEASE stop calling yourselves stupid! You are living and learning from experience-- no self putdown deserved!

I did not stay on pureed (pureed literally made me well, it didn't stay) due to my incident but it took me two times to learn. White fish is an allowable puree/soft food (they intertwine) with my surgeon and I slowly cook it on the stove in broth. I tried flounder. Worst feeling and I could tell it wanted to revisit. Then I tried sole. I thought it was over until it did finally revisit.

It's going to be a while before I go back.

I guess we learn by our mistakes!

PLEASE stop calling yourselves stupid! You are living and learning from experience-- no self putdown deserved!

It's OK, I think we're using the term stupid in the nicest possible way, just expressing our ignorance! Kind of like doing a "doh" mental head slap.

Yea...barfed today after eating a well pureed egg. Nasty! But I just had to laugh. I knew I wouldn't get away with never having it happen. My hubby and kid were out riding bikes. Freaked out my poor dog. But, hey, now I know how much slower I have to eat.