Eating liquid

Originally Posted by Acro-nym

If you're going to be eating oatmeal, I highly suggest the variety of flavors that Quaker provides. I've only tried maple and brown sugar, cinnamon and spice, and apple and cinnamon, all of which are good. Combining these is also a great idea. I'm sure there are more flavors, I just happen to have only had those three. Of course, since you're eating it with brown sugar and cinnamon, maybe you don't need my suggestions...

I prefer to make the oatmeal myself. That instant stuff in the package just doesn't seem like it's as healthy to me. But then again, I've never checked the nutritional information. I'm just assuming that it's LOADED with sugar. I've had the cinnamon one before though, it's tasty.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Mucknuggle

Well, the 1st time I went to the doctor my tonsils were just a little swollen. The 2nd time I went (after my mono test came back positive) they were about 3 times the previous size, just about touching the thing that hangs down in the middle (the soft palate?) and covered with a fair bit of green/grey nastyness. I'd post pics if I had some....but it was gross. We also did a strep throat test because apparently mono + strep throat simultaneously is pretty common. Anyhow, both strep tests came back negative. I figure I should have been given the steroids on trip #2 because the next day I could barely eat. Basically, by trip #3 my tonsils were squishing that hanging thing in the middle and pushing it up - so I was on the verge of having trouble breathing. The steroids are truly wonderful though, I feel SOOO much better. But when I wake up in the morning and they aren't in full swing, it sucks.

I've attempted to eat some solids today and it was a success! I'm still going to go mostly liquid from now on because I don't want to aggravate the tonsils and make them swell more, but, you know, it was good to be able to eat solid.

So far, things that go down easily are: yogourt, meal replacement milkshakes (e.g. Ensure, but they have HORRIBLE after-taste...), oatmeal (add brown sugar + cinnamon FTW), milkshakes, juice, water, popsicles, and small purple, seedless grapes have gone down pretty ok.

For protein I could always add some of my whey protein powder to some milk . . . but using it when I'm not hitting the gym just seems like such a waste. Speaking of which, I'm not allowed any sports for another 5 weeks.

Wow, so yours was about the same as mine, pretty bad. When I went the first time, the doctors said I had strep and gave me pencillin. A week went by and I started choking in my sleep a lot (drooling too). Sometimes my fam would have to come and wake me up because there were times I actually stopped breathing. My family decided to take me to the emergency room because they say I kept having too many periods of not breathing (I was very sluggish, too).

I grossed out the doctor and the nurse when they looked down my throat, ha. The steroids helped quite a bit. I found that drinking milk right before I ate anything helped because the milk coated my throat and the pain disappeared.

I'm glad you see you're feeling better!

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

When it comes to eating solids, I think of soup, jello, and ice-creme

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

eating liquids is one of the best thing to do if you have a flu or something, like soup, jello, popcicle, ice-cream, and nice hot herbal tea to drink! as soon as I get the signs of a cold or flu, I follow this strict diet of this stuff inclding alot of orange juice, and I am better within 28-40 hours!

I was speaking idiomatically.