Anyone else being entertained by well-meaning friends and family?

I have been brutally open about my surgery with my co-workers to defuse gossipping I know is a real problem here before it starts. I've found as a result I'm getting so much positive feedback (about 4 of my co-workers are related to post-ops and I never would have known)but even better are the well intended suggestions. One friend recently had twins, and when I told her I was planning to use baby food for an easy meat source in my puree stage, she said that baby food was sooo expensive, why don't I just get all my protein from refried beans? (I let her think about what she was suggesting before I started laughing). Then there's my boyfriend who was more than willing to suggest I invest in maternity clothes to cut down on the clothing expenses. I realized that asking him if he'd ever actually LOOKED at materninty clothes would accomplish nothing, so I just asked if that meant I could have a baby as soon as the 18 months was over and he dropped the subject VERY fast. So anyway, I'm curious, what other "suggestions" have you heard?

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