Since I only had one day to prepare for the procedure and I was not feeling well I stayed home. Besides, I very well could not go to work when I needed to go to the bathroom every hour. Also, the effects on my stomach were not pleasant. Let's say that the laxative that was prescribed to me was more than effective.
I was not allowed to eat any solid food while I was preparing for my tests, only clear liquids. There is only so much water, and jello that you can eat. My wife made this delicious Beef Bone Broth that was not only tasty but it was nutritious as well. My wife also brought home some other things for me to try that she bought at a health food store, Goodness Me, goodnessme.ca, in Burlington. She bought Aloe water and something that I had heard about but never tried; Kombucha,Kombucha. I did not like the Aloe water but I drank it because,after all my wife bought it for me. I tried the Kombucha and found that it settled my stomach immediately. Kombucha has become a mainstay of my treatment. My wife bought quite a few bottles of Kombucha but it is not the cheapest beverage to buy so we figured out how to make it ourselves. It turned out to be a lot easier than we thought. We have included the recipe for Kombucha that we use along with the link to the website. As it turns out, my favorite flavor of Kombucha is ginger.
Since there was not a lot for me to do at home, I started researching my symptoms on the Internet. There is a lot of misleading information on the Internet. In this blog I am only going to share information that I know from my own experience. I am not a doctor and I do not have any kind of medical credentials behind my name so I can only tell you what I know from my own experience. Following the various symptoms for gastrointestinal diseases I came up with GERD, gerd. The thing is I did not and still do not have the traditional symptoms of GERD, mainly a burning sensation in my stomach. I have never felt that. Instead, I have phlegm in my throat, a constant cough, difficulty swallowing when I eat, hiccups when I eat and after meals and especially in the middle of the night, I have food and liquid rising back up into my throat. The only thing that I found that even came close to my symptoms was LPR (Laryngopharyngeal Reflux ) Disease, Laryngopharyngeal_reflux. Yet I was not sure because the doctors at the ER said that I did not have Reflux.
So Wednesday came, my wife drove me to the hospital for my procedures. I was admitted to the surgical ward and then I waited. I had anticipated the wait so I brought a small paperback with me to read, something that I could slip into my coat pocket when it was time to go in for my procedures. It was a book that I had read many times, Chinese Folk Medicine, by Heinrich Wallnofer and Anna Von Rottauscher. Chinese-medicine-acupuncture. After a long wait I was given a bed and instructed to get undressed and put on a gown. After that, I sat in the bed and waited so more. Eventually, I was taken to the operating room where I met a cheerful Dr. Choi and his anesthesiologist who I remember that she was very personable and chatty. Of course, It did not take long before she had me out like a light. The next thing that I remember was that I was waking up in my bed in the same spot where I was before the procedure. My nurse came by and told me that everything went well and that Dr. Choi would come and see me. Dr. Choi came by shortly to see me. He told that they did not find anything in my colon, or in my esophagus or larynx. He did find something irregular in my stomach that he took a biopsy an sent it for analysis.
So after all that, I still did not know what was wrong with me. Afterwards, I made an appointment with my family doctor to find out the results of the tests. I had to know what was wrong with me so that I could do something about it.
Beef Bone Broth
1-2 lbs beef bones
1 carrot, cut up
1 stalk celery, cut up
1 onion, cut in half
Place all the cut up vegetables in a roasting pan. Put the bones on top.
Roast for an hour, or until the bones are brown. It they look dried up, that's ok, it will have better flavour.
Take everything from the roasting pan and put it into a big soup pot or the crock pot. Pour hot water into the roasting pan. Let it soak for 10 minutes. Then try to remove all the bits stuck to it. Pour the liquid into the pot. Add water to cover all the bones and vegetables. Bring to a boil and cover, simmer for 2-3 hours. In the crock pot, cover the bones with water, place cover on the crockpot and set the timer on high for 5 hours.
When the soup is done, pour the soup liquid through a sieve and throw the bones and vegetables away. Season soup to taste with salt and pepper. If the soup is fatty, skim off the fat, or let it cool and remove the hardened fat.
Kambucha.
3 1/2 quarts of water
1 cup of sugar
2 tablespoons of green or black tea.
Follow the instruction on the following web site http://www.thekitchn.com/how-to-make-kombucha-tea-at-home-cooking-lessons-from-the-kitchn-173858. It is not hard to make, it takes a little practice.You will need to make the recipe for a scoby(this will ferment your tea) You will need some clean jars for your finished tea. You can have a fresh batch every 2-3 weeks. It is much cheaper than the bottles for sale in the Health Food stores
I was not allowed to eat any solid food while I was preparing for my tests, only clear liquids. There is only so much water, and jello that you can eat. My wife made this delicious Beef Bone Broth that was not only tasty but it was nutritious as well. My wife also brought home some other things for me to try that she bought at a health food store, Goodness Me, goodnessme.ca, in Burlington. She bought Aloe water and something that I had heard about but never tried; Kombucha,Kombucha. I did not like the Aloe water but I drank it because,after all my wife bought it for me. I tried the Kombucha and found that it settled my stomach immediately. Kombucha has become a mainstay of my treatment. My wife bought quite a few bottles of Kombucha but it is not the cheapest beverage to buy so we figured out how to make it ourselves. It turned out to be a lot easier than we thought. We have included the recipe for Kombucha that we use along with the link to the website. As it turns out, my favorite flavor of Kombucha is ginger.
Since there was not a lot for me to do at home, I started researching my symptoms on the Internet. There is a lot of misleading information on the Internet. In this blog I am only going to share information that I know from my own experience. I am not a doctor and I do not have any kind of medical credentials behind my name so I can only tell you what I know from my own experience. Following the various symptoms for gastrointestinal diseases I came up with GERD, gerd. The thing is I did not and still do not have the traditional symptoms of GERD, mainly a burning sensation in my stomach. I have never felt that. Instead, I have phlegm in my throat, a constant cough, difficulty swallowing when I eat, hiccups when I eat and after meals and especially in the middle of the night, I have food and liquid rising back up into my throat. The only thing that I found that even came close to my symptoms was LPR (Laryngopharyngeal Reflux ) Disease, Laryngopharyngeal_reflux. Yet I was not sure because the doctors at the ER said that I did not have Reflux.
So Wednesday came, my wife drove me to the hospital for my procedures. I was admitted to the surgical ward and then I waited. I had anticipated the wait so I brought a small paperback with me to read, something that I could slip into my coat pocket when it was time to go in for my procedures. It was a book that I had read many times, Chinese Folk Medicine, by Heinrich Wallnofer and Anna Von Rottauscher. Chinese-medicine-acupuncture. After a long wait I was given a bed and instructed to get undressed and put on a gown. After that, I sat in the bed and waited so more. Eventually, I was taken to the operating room where I met a cheerful Dr. Choi and his anesthesiologist who I remember that she was very personable and chatty. Of course, It did not take long before she had me out like a light. The next thing that I remember was that I was waking up in my bed in the same spot where I was before the procedure. My nurse came by and told me that everything went well and that Dr. Choi would come and see me. Dr. Choi came by shortly to see me. He told that they did not find anything in my colon, or in my esophagus or larynx. He did find something irregular in my stomach that he took a biopsy an sent it for analysis.
So after all that, I still did not know what was wrong with me. Afterwards, I made an appointment with my family doctor to find out the results of the tests. I had to know what was wrong with me so that I could do something about it.
Beef Bone Broth
1-2 lbs beef bones
1 carrot, cut up
1 stalk celery, cut up
1 onion, cut in half
Place all the cut up vegetables in a roasting pan. Put the bones on top.
Roast for an hour, or until the bones are brown. It they look dried up, that's ok, it will have better flavour.
Take everything from the roasting pan and put it into a big soup pot or the crock pot. Pour hot water into the roasting pan. Let it soak for 10 minutes. Then try to remove all the bits stuck to it. Pour the liquid into the pot. Add water to cover all the bones and vegetables. Bring to a boil and cover, simmer for 2-3 hours. In the crock pot, cover the bones with water, place cover on the crockpot and set the timer on high for 5 hours.
When the soup is done, pour the soup liquid through a sieve and throw the bones and vegetables away. Season soup to taste with salt and pepper. If the soup is fatty, skim off the fat, or let it cool and remove the hardened fat.
Kambucha.
3 1/2 quarts of water
1 cup of sugar
2 tablespoons of green or black tea.
Follow the instruction on the following web site http://www.thekitchn.com/how-to-make-kombucha-tea-at-home-cooking-lessons-from-the-kitchn-173858. It is not hard to make, it takes a little practice.You will need to make the recipe for a scoby(this will ferment your tea) You will need some clean jars for your finished tea. You can have a fresh batch every 2-3 weeks. It is much cheaper than the bottles for sale in the Health Food stores
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