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I'm Alive! Gluten-Free Hospital Food & Allergy Info Update

Thank you all for the good vibes you've sent my way over the last few days. I've been thinking about what an interesting place cyberspace is, and how I have friends that I've never even met in person. Amazing!

I'm happy to report that everything went well with my surgery, and after a weekend of pain I'm now feeling pretty perky.

I thought you might find it interesting to see the reassuring allergy band that they gave me to wear at the hospital. (above) Although, in recovery, under the influence of my new warm and fuzzy friend Percocet, some dude (nurse intern?) tried to give me graham crackers to eat! Fortunately I was coherent enough to refuse them.

Oh, and regarding the corn allergy, when I spoke to the anesthesiologist about my corn allergy and asked about the use of a dextrose (corn) IV and alternatives, he explained that he had planned on using a saline IV, so no worries. I didn't get to ask out of curiosity why they would choose between the two, I was just happy that I didn't have to worry. Now I am going to add "corn-free saline IV" to my medical directive that I keep in my wallet.

Now I must go and catch up on emails...!

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I'm a little nervous. I'm having surgery tomorrow. Don't worry- due to the miracles of modern medicine I won't have to spend the night, but I'll still have to have full anesthesia. I'll spare you the details because, trust me, you don't want the details. Besides, guessing will be more fun! Labotomy? J-Lo implants? Fripple removal?

I'm telling you this because I've found some helpful information that I thought might be of interest to anyone else that is gluten-free if they end up at the hospital, or at least for you to know just for the sake of being prepared for the unexpected that will hopefully never happen.

First of all, GIG has a great checklist of helpful info you can dowload here: Hospital Stays Made Safe . (Thanks to Ginger for the timely tip!)

Second, did you know that there is a company that sells gluten-free and even gluten-free casein-free food kits for hospitals? Even prisons?! (Uh, hope I never need one there!) You can read all about it here. (Thanks, Nancy.)

So, if you have any tips for a gluten-free hospital stay, please share them with all of us.

Oh, and pleeease forgive me if I owe you an email. I promise that I haven't forgotten about you!

Talk to you soon!

Besitos,

Kelly

P.S. If you have a corn allergy, I found out some great info about corn-free IV's. Evidently, you can easily get a corn-free saline IV. Of course, I'm not deathly allergic to corn, but I figure I'll at least ask for this since my body definitely doesn't like corn and I figure it is probably a good idea not to "do" corn intravaneously. I'll let you know how it goes.

Additional Information:
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