By this morning, alas, no toot. However when the doc came in, he said that he was going to start John on the liquid diet today! This was going to be the first food he'd had since the liquid diet he was on LAST Monday!! First thing on the menu was some Jello (well, not actualy Jello, but a reasonable facsimile). This pleased John very much.
The thing that we had to be careful of is that he would get nauseous. If that happened, he still had the tube through the nose to suck everything out of his stomach. but it didn't. everything went down smoothly. He had some sorbet and some sherbert and also, a couple cups of tea. He did have one issue. hiccups. He pulled a muscle in his shoulder and every hiccup hurt. He ended up with them twice and they sucked. However, we learned a hiccup healing trick that actually did us some good. If you have hiccups, you have someone put their fingers kind of looped around the back of your ears, kind of pulling up on the bone there and if stars align at the same time they do that, the hiccups will stop. Also today, the epidural came out. Now he has a button for pain meds. All in all, it was a successful day. We are happy that John is able to have some food. really. really happy about that.
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