we can eat salads

This is cut and pasted form the good doc's email to me:

The stones are large. That is good because they cannot travel down the duct and get caught in there. That makes it less urgent for surgery. You still need to have a surgeon or gastroenterologist give you the low-down from their point of view.

There are two stones.  Since the surgeon is unlikely to give me a complimentary tummy tuck during the gall bladder surgery that is surely his one and only answer to this problem I am not inclined to seek his point of view. (Why, yes, I am a big fraidy cat, why do you ask?)  

However, I am amenable to seeking the advice of a gastroenterologist who might possibly tell me how manageable gall stones are through proper diet, because, if there is one thing I know how to do it's eat with restrictions.  I'm telling myself to just take the even more than I already live with restrictions plunge, to embrace it, to be the kind of girl who carries her own gently steamed gall bladder friendly not fried or over greasy, heavy on the vegetables food with her where ever she goes. 

Which feels like a truck load of bad karma has been delivered and dumped right onto my doorstep because whenever I am in the uncomfortable squirming position of explaining to someone all of my extensive food allergies, the typical response is "Oh my god!  What do you eat?" and I always answer back  "French Fries!"

hahaha.  Not any more!

I am a load of fun.  Anyone want to vacation with me?  We can eat salads!  With lemon juice for dressing!  

Maybe I will try being a raw foodie.  At least I won't spend all of my time cooking anymore.  Unless all those raw nuts and seeds are high in hours of stabbing unrelenting pain fats ..... hmmmm.

I can wrap my head around the vegetation part of what I need to do, what confounds me is how I am going to get enough protein to weight train like I do with out eggs, pork and red meat.  I can't possibly eat enough protein in fish without dying from all heavy metals.  Long time readers will recall the delightful odyssey I had last winter with the chelation therapy due to my elevated heavy metals.  Once was enough of that for me.   I guess there are the birds.  Chicken and turkey.  I'm not the biggest poultry fan though.  Yech.

On the upside of all this is that the spots I thought I heard some chick discussing with my MRI technician were likely the gall stones and not cancer.  I feel like I just dodged an asbestos loaded bullet.

Comments

[M]

as a vegetarian myself... I eat a lot of beans for protien. I of course don't know about your food alergies, but chick peas and lentils are a great source. I love tofu, but I know a lot of ppl are alergic to soy. Surprisingly, brown rice and brocoli are also a good source. Best of luck

[Pippa]

Green smoothies! The raw foodie way of getting more protein is all about including spinach and other green leaves in your smoothies. Since raw is a good way to combat any physical distress, I'd say that's definitely worth a ponder. Good luck, Click!

[Christina]

Hi I notice you are into photography, I'm in school right now studying photography. I got your name off the Hot 100 Challenge, I hope you don't mind me adding you as one of my favorite blogs.

[South Beach Steve]

Beans are another good source of protein, but they have their own challenges. Of course, as you pointed out, nuts have protein too.

So glad you dodged the bullet!

[The Editor]

I hate to burst your bubble, but re-read the part you cut and pasted from his email..."That makes it less urgent for surgery. You still need to have a surgeon or gastroenterologist give you the low-down from their point of view."

Good Doc didn't say NO NEED for surgery, he said LESS URGENT.

So, since I want you to be healthy and happy for years to come, listen to Good Doc...LESS URGENT -- as in not needed today, but still needed. Hate to burst your happy bubble on a lovely weekend.

Thanks for the photo...Aster with Bee?

[clickmom]

Dang! My editor! Now I have to scrape myself off of the floor! Here is my thought process ..... The good doc is still an MD and because of that he is required to tell me that standard medical practice is surgery after 2 gall bladder attacks. But, if you ask a pathologist, you will find that 99% of removed gall bladders have no sign of gall bladder disease (which is different than stones) and also, just like most people of a certain age have some kind of disc dislocation but only half are symptomatic because theirs are pressing on a nerve, a large portion of the population also has kidney stones but half have no idea because they eat a certain diet. Let's see if I can be inspired by the chance of pain and get my act together and not have another attack because I eat so well. This time around I am going to DECIDE.