sticking...

so im just over 3 weeks post op and i just had my first episode of sticking.  i should have known better i have been very careful up till this point. that is such and awful feeling.... I NEVER WANT TO FEEL THAT AGAIN!!!

happens to the best of us!

chew chew chew.

fat free gravy was my friend.

what got stuck?  I find that chicken is still very hard for me to do so I kind of avoid it.  I stick to seafood or ground turkey/beef and even rather enjoy ground bison.  But chicken and I are not the best of friends anymore....   haha

I am almost 9 months post-op and last night I got a piece of steak stuck. It is the WORST feeling in the whole world. What is even worse when you get the piece up it is like the size of a grain of rice. I agree with Sue about FF gravy. This may sound reallly gross but I still eat chicken with FF ranch; I know, vial but FF ranch and I are tight! Hang in there. If you do get a tuck feeling and it just won't go away you could try a warm drink. Sometime you will irritate your lil pouch when something gets stuch and it will feel like that for a few days!

I hate it!  And it happens so easily. 

I can't tolerate chicken and get a similar feeling as to when I get something "stuck', eggs, too.

I did get a teeny piece of bread stuck once (I was eating my first post-op hot roast beef sandwich, one of my favorites!) and just swallowed something by mistake.  I knew instantly.  Fought it for an hour, then worked at "relieving" the discomfort for an hour and a half.  Finally, when it was out, I felt like a million bucks.  Just thoroughly grossed out, but so much more comfortable.

This surgery, I've found, has taken all the joy out of eating for me.  Which, for me, is a good thing.  It was too often my source of entertainment. 

Congrats on your surgery.