My intestine story - Removing the tube and starting over. Day 12.

Here follows a journal of the past two weeks and the difficulties I went through. I will write each day as a new post for easy reading. To sum it up: I had to get an emergency operation because my intestines couldn't digest food. Here is what happened...

Friday, 30 May

Now that we knew everything was fine and that my intestines just needed more time to work, we did not have any stress. I had to start with soups and yoghurt again, but luckily it was the good, creamy soup, not the watery beef-stock kind.

Doc removed the tube early the next morning. Doc also wanted me to drink Movicol. It is a sachet that you mix in 125ml of water. The taste is horrendous!!
For those of you that ever had some condition where you were dehydrated, you would know that you drink that Re-Hydrate crap that contains electrolytes and stuff. The taste is horrible! The water is all thick and slimy. The taste is super salty and they try to sweeten it with whatever, which makes it a slimy, salty, sweet tasting drink. Whenever I think about that taste it comes and sits in my throat. Gag.

The Movicol tastes EXACTLY like that, only with a lemon flavour. I was open minded and mixed everything together. I took a huge sip and almost threw up again. The rest of the drink was poured down the drain. Euw.

I told Doc that there is no way I can drink it. She suggested I mix it with something nice. Tomorrow I will try it with tea. Hope it will work!