Food Do's and Don't's

FOODS THAT I MISS:

- pizza
- spaghetti and meatballs
- lasagna
- meatball po-boy (New Orleans' version of the "sub")
- salad
- bacon
- hamburger (large quantities of ground beef)
- peanuts/nuts of any kind
- popcorn
- sausage patties
- chicken fingers
- country-fried steak













CURRENT EVERYDAY FOODS:

- soup
- ice cream
- rice
- smoothies
- macaroni and cheese
- pastas
- cheese
- crackers
- chips
- certain breads
- cereal

Sometimes, I'm in so much pain that I only eat ice cream or smoothies. I find that regurgitating usually makes for a good full night's sleep.

INTERESTING FACT:

I was told after I had the surgery -- the Heller Myotomy -- I would not be able to vomit anymore because they basically used the top half of my stomach to re-enforce the sutures in my esophagus. Though, I can still regurgitate.

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN VOMMITTING AND REGURGITATING:

VOMMITTING - the returning of food that has entered the stomach

REGURGITATING - the returning of food that has not yet entered the stomach


THE HELLER MYOTOMY












(The flap on the left is the top part of the stomach being wrapped around the esophagus acting as a patch to provent leakage.)













(The finished product)