Note: First of all, my favorite Spiritual High (because of my body chemistry) was a 4 day Organic Apple Juice Fast. However, I had to stop doing this by age 40 to 45 because I started to have blood sugar problems with hypoglycemia. So, it is obviously not for everyone. However, I really liked the deeply spiritual place I would or could go to to be with God and his angels on a 4 day Organic Apple Juice Fast.
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However, this in some ways prepared me for almost dying (after I got out of the emergency room) this last Saturday. The best way to say this likely is I had an episode of something similar to diverticulitis from a naval hernia where your intestines come out past your stomach muscles. However, they are still under your skin and some flesh.
So, As a result of this when I went into the emergency room a lady doctor saved my life with what I had never seen before which is an abdominal Binder which is something entirely new to me.
The other thing I had never experienced before was throwing up black water. My son who is a trained nurse with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing said, "A human body will do whatever it takes to survive!"
And obviously this is what my body did too.
Luckily they gave me Versed which is an amnesiac and sedative and pain killer which made it somewhat less traumatic to go through all this. My memories of this are very sketchy at this point. I know it all happened but it's like I'm somewhat disconnected from what happened too.
also, I'm 77 years old and she likely didn't want me to die of shock from this experience too even though I have a very strong constitution and usually fear isn't somewhere I go to. I might go to concern but I have learned fear is death if you want to survive difficult situations in life.
So, being afraid wasn't a survivable option for me especially in this moment.
So, my last solid food was Saturday night before my wife drove me to the hospital early Sunday morning.
And it was the last solid food until today where I had a protein drink recommended by someone who works on diets at hospitals who is a personal friend of my wife and I.
As soon as I drank this my wife noticed immediately that I was different having protein on board once again.
The point was that my diet since Sunday morning has been ONLY:
1.Water
2. chicken broth
3. jello
4 orange juice
5 apple juice
6 lemonade
and yesterday I had oatmeal for the first time.
However, after 5 days without any protein last night was pretty spacey and I knew I had to do something different so luckily my wife's and my friend recommended a strawberry Banana flavored protein drink that would give me some protein without creating any solids problems in my intestines.
So, basically, the lady doctor who saved my life with an abdominal binder and the versed she gave me and the three anti-nausea drugs they had to give me through an IV in my arm and not eating anything solid since Saturday except now oatmeal and now a strawberry Banana high protein drink is all I have had to eat except for the above list since Saturday.
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