BS: Jacqui's operation

Subject: RE: BS: Jacqui's operation
From: katlaughing
Date: 21 Sep 07 - 12:08 PM

Oh, geez, Becca! I called Little Neophyte, who happens to be a nutritionist. Very little food was appetizing at the time, but I was able to get down a smoothie for breakfast every day. She advised me to add dried figs, not the dark kind, to it and voila! Now, more than two years later, I have found fish oil capsules would have worked, too!

Subject: RE: BS: Jacqui's operation
From: Bill D
Date: 21 Sep 07 - 12:27 PM

Hmmmm...I guess I should consider myself VERY lucky, in that almost all meds I have even taken seem to work on me just as they are supposed to.

I was VERY glad to have Vicodin when I had a pinched nerve in my neck....it simply allowed me to stop hurting and get to sleep. It did NOT cause constipation...if anything, a bit the opposite.
I can take sulpha, any antibiotic they have, use any kind of adhesive tape, and eat any kind of food which *I* care about. I don't even suffer from pollen allergies!

I have only one known allergy, and that IS a nuisance...to most types of Rosewood dust. So, as a woodworker, I can't mess with Cocobolo.

I'm beginning to wonder what the relationship is of all these allergies people seem to have is to modern life & the environment. It 'feels' like there are way more than there used to be.

Subject: RE: BS: Jacqui's operation
From: jacqui.c
Date: 21 Sep 07 - 12:44 PM

A few years back, after my hysterectomy, I was constipated for a couple of days and waiting for my daughter to get a scrip for a suppository from the GP to deal with it.

I finally got too desperate to go and, necessity being the mother of invention, started trying to think about what might do the same job in the absence of the suppositories. Cod liver oil capsules work amazingly well! The gelatine capsules melt with body heat and then the oil just greases the - well, you know. Saved me the cost of the prescription and added another little bit of useful info that has been passed on to others since.

Kendall had the same problem a bit later and I told him what had worked - at this time we were separated by the Big Pond. He seemed a little doubtful about it but the next morning, at work, I got an email which said "I tried the cod liver oil at nine o'clock last night. At eleven o'clock I had a major bowel movement. I should have got out of bed first." Total collapse of me and my workmates wondering what was making me laugh so much.

Subject: RE: BS: Jacqui's operation
From: catspaw49
Date: 21 Sep 07 - 12:56 PM

Aw gee Jacqui.......What a lovely tale. Kendall is really the romantic isn't he?

LMAO

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Jacqui's operation
From: Rasener
Date: 21 Sep 07 - 02:47 PM

Jacqui
I am so glad you are on the mend. Wont be long before you are back to this. You will need to scroll down a bit to see what I mean :-)

Jacqui at her best

Take care.
Les

Subject: RE: BS: Jacqui's operation
From: gnu
Date: 21 Sep 07 - 03:59 PM

Yeeees, Spaw. True romance is not dead! Just in poor shape.

I hope you saved all those love emails, Jac, for posteriority.

Subject: RE: BS: Jacqui's operation
From: jacqui.c
Date: 21 Sep 07 - 09:09 PM

Thanks Les - I'd forgotten that! See you in December!

Spaw - he's one of the most romantic men I know, just not in the usual way.

Subject: RE: BS: Jacqui's operation
From: catspaw49
Date: 21 Sep 07 - 09:33 PM

Ahhhhhh......That's sweet Jacqui......***sigh***........Ya' know, Karen says the same about me.....uh.......Wait...I think she says aromatic instead..........Never mind..........

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Jacqui's operation
From: My guru always said
Date: 22 Sep 07 - 07:07 AM

Missed all this till now but sending positive thoughts for a good recovery Jacqui! Take the good advice & store up the belly laughs for a few weeks. Oh, and don't drink coffee while you're reading this thread *grin*
Love & Hugs,
Hil