The nature of vomit is fascinating to me these days. There are so many differents types, almost more types than there are foods. There's the all liquid, oh so easy to get up and out. The very dense foody type, it requires a lot of heaving. The empty stomach vomit, the worst of all. Piecey vomit, happens after you eat leafy vegetables. So many more but I won't go into every type or I'd be here all day.
I experience one or more of these a day as of late. Usually my breakfast stays with me. What about one packet of Quaker oatmeal could really be that offensive anyway? Lunch, lunch is a crap shoot. How the dice land will only be known after they have been tossed, pardon the pun. I do OK with very bland, plain, repetitive things-my good ole turkey sandwich. Supper, my suppers are never good. If it weren't for Brad and Turner insisting on eating I would shut down the kitchen at noon. Supper rarely stays down.
I have three options that fall upon me as the dinner hours beckons. None of the options are desirable, but here's what I have to choose from:
Option One - Eat supper, a very small supper. Remember to drink lots of tea or water. The fluid intake is critical. If fluid intake is low, I will have the foody type throwup which causes a near black out from the sheer wretching and convulsions it takes to get it up and out. Lots of fluid = no passing out.
Option two - Bite the bullet ahead of time, throw up before I attempt to eat supper. This is the option I choose out of sheer despiration for want of food in my stomach. This involves the worst of the vommit types, the empty stomach vommit. Typically not much in there but acid and bile. But this one hurts and burns so much it is to be done only in the most dire of circumstances. Recovery from this takes a while. My throat is on fire, as are my sinuses. Just like clock work, some stomach acid will get into my sinuses with this and I will smell and feel it up there for an hour or so. The rewards are small for braving this, a very small supper can be held down about eighty percent of the time. When I say small, I mean small, less than what I would portion off for Turner. But when it does stay down I feel moderately nauseated til I go to bed, but the next morning is with out the sea sick feeling for a few hours.
Option three - It isn't really an option, it's what happens when it goes beyond my control. This is the "option" I had lat night. It is a combo of options one and two. Makes for not a very pleasant night, if you know what I mean.
Now all of this probably sounds like the world's best loose weight quick plan, but alas, I am not trying to loose weight. I am down about five pounds, an trying to go no lower than that. When I feel good, I do eat. I try to eat healthy, you know, get more bang for my buck. But sometimes all I want is soda and junk. I hate soda, coke, pop, what ever you call it. I know it's all bad for you. I usually only drink water, skim milk, a small amount of juice (cause let's face it, it's just sugar), and decaffinated, unsweetened tea. All of these are pretty good for me in one way or another. The Cherry Coke I have been lusting after has no nutritionally redeeming qualities. I have had two Cherry cokes and one Dr Pepper in the past month. Way more than I should, but sometimes everyone buckles I guess.
So I will do battle with the nausea, cronicle it for anyone sick enough to read a reveiw of vommit, and hope it passes in a few weeks. Til then I have advice for you, chew your food very well. You never know when you might get food posioniong or a sudden stomach virus. Well chewed food is the key to getting things up and out. You mom was right again, imagine that, "Chew your food dear, you don't want to choke".
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