Ok, so I will live without favorite foods but ugh. I get proctolectomy tomorrow (so no colon, no rectum, I get an ileostomy bag) and many say you can't eat certain foods. The problem is they're healthy healing cancer-fighting foods and my favorite foods. Life without nuts, beans, spice (omg the spicier the better I say, at least with a colon intact), salad, greens, peels (like roasted potato with peel) or stuff like onion, cilantro, chunky salsa, peppers, apples. Basically, my cancer-fighting diet was beans and lentils, seeds and nuts, salads, greens, spicy food, chunky stuff (like cilantro and onion). Boo. I don't want to lose weight after surgery but a diet similar to the chemotherapy diet I was on for a bit...soft carrot, boiled chicken, plain rice, toast, mashed potato...ugh. I'm thin and lost 10 lbs with that food. Oh well...sorry...I am just ranting and complaining. See y'all in about a week once I am back to humanity after surgery.
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