Day 4 to 6

Day 4

I spent the day at the Hospital with my 5 year old son Braidleigh, as he swallowed a Button Battery. super scary situation.  I was pretty freaked out as I had seen a video on youtube with a small boy whom had a button battery burn through his esophagus causing all sorts of damage some 30 surgeries later he lives with a trachesotomy and a feeding tube.  We are very lucky and the x-ray shows that the battery had passed the diaphragm and was in the stomach.  We now have to wait until he passes the battery on his own. We go back to the hospital in 1 week to ensure he has passed the battery.   Because of all this excitement I was only able to manage 2 Optifast shakes today.  I'm finding the the smell makes me nauseous. The taste is not bad but I walk in to the kitchen and that is all I can smell and my stomach starts to roll just thinking about making another shake.

Day 5

Well Day 5 started a whole other ball of fun.  The shakes went down ok, but not great. I spend the day getting a bunch of stuff done around the house. I spent the evening out shopping with my son Aiden. We had a great time, it's really fun to hang out with him one on one. If it was not for him I would not of discovered that Mac's has crystal light frosters, it was the highlight of my day. We didn't get home till pretty late but I'm glad we got home when we did.  They tell you in the optifast info that you may become constipated because the shakes contain no fibre, what they don't tell you is that you may have the exact opposite ... I know I know TMI, but this has to be said for anyone else planning on this surgery, it gave me the Shits big time.

 Day 6

Today has been the best day shake wise. I'm not having any cravings for food, I'm completely satisfied with the shakes and good old H20 .. with maybe a little Crystal Light or Mio.  I discovered a new recipe today to, and it's going to make the drinking these damn shakes so much more enjoyable.  

Chocolate Optifast

Ice

H20

Decafe coffee granulas 

Pepermint Extract

Blend in Blender

Yummy, it tastes fantastic ... I really didn't think anything would make these shakes enjoyable to drink.  Clearly I was wrong!!!  The next 8 days are not going to be so bad after all .... Well expect for the one small negative I mentioned above.