At a restaurant yesterday, I made the mistake of eating a veggie sandwich that had zucchini as one of the ingredients. Bad, bad mistake. For years I have known not to eat whole-grain bread; so the sandwich bread was plain white bread and was fine, but the zucchini was NOT. My ostomy got stopped up and then the backed-up contents burst out and caused the adhesive on the base holding the bag to my tummy to burst off the skin, and then the backed-up intestinal content poured out. It was a total mess. When the bag adhesive came off, I could see the clot of zucchini that had caused the problem. Luckily, the clot then came out. My hubby has always said that restaurants just use zucchini as filler because it is cheap, and he has always hated it. Now, I hate it as much as he does. NO MORE ZUCCHINI FOR ME!
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