that is an awesome victory! I am 3 months post takedown and I want popcorn! But I will wait a little longer to try it!

Very good news. I guess I was either lucky or foolish, because I never avoided any food after my 1-step. I was eating a regular diet before discharge. I even had a salad, just a week post-op! I ate anything and everything, just not huge portions. Never had any problems I could associate with food, other than a little diarrhea. I've had the occasional partial obstruction over the years, and only one that sent me to the hospital. But, none of them seemed to be associated with any particular food.

So, here's to dietary liberation! Don't be afraid to eat what you enjoy and crave. Personally, I think 3 months is plenty of time to wait for trying some popcorn.

Jan

I hear you Holly!! I want to try popcorn too but am afraid. I think we should listen to Jan and try it out.

Congrats Manchester - you're right we need to celebrate victories and try to stay positive!!

Also, if a certain food bothers you after eating it, do not think that you can never have that food again. Go back in a few months and try it again. I have found this to be very true...in my case anyway.

I agree with Jan, enjoy that popcorn...no need to wait longer.

Yes, it will drive you crazy until you have some. Reminds me of when I was in the hospital recovering from my presacral abscess, on TPN. Outside my window was a big Taco Bell sign, and on TV there was this Taco Bell ad like a million times a day. I was dreaming of tacos. When I was discharged, you guessed it! The first stop was that Taco Bell for a double decker on the way home! It wasn't that great, but at least I stopped dreaming about it...

Jan

That's funny Jan. I had my surgery in Philadelphia so by the end of my stay from my step one I was dreaming about the famous Gino's cheese-steak sandwiches.(especially after 10 days of hospital food!) We stopped there after my discharge from the hospital and I shared one with my hubby!

These posts remind me of my recovery from step 1 at Mount Sinai Medical Center in NYC. I was hospitalized for 8 days, had many complications, was hooked up to an IV and eating nothing. I had a roommate who had leukemia, and his devoted wife would bring him takeout from his favorite Chinese restaurant every night and they would eat it in the hospital room he shared with me. The leukemia apparently did not spoil his appetite. Unfortunately, however, those were the last weeks of his life, as he died about 2 weeks after I was discharged. But he went out eating well, and it was brutal torture for me to smell all that food his wife brought in every night. It just so happened that I was, and still am very fond of Chinese food. I recall that my roommate was particularly fond of the Butterfly Shrimp and his wife brought that in along with a bunch of other stuff. I remember him telling me he liked the shrimp the best.

It's amazing how powerful the aroma of food can be when you can't eat any. The aroma of the food also caught the attention of my parents, and they ended up asking my roommate's wife where the restaurant was (a few blocks from the hospital) and they went there themselves one night for dinner. The best I could do at that time was listen to their description of what they eat.

Since that time I have probably had hundreds of Chinese takeout dinners.

Last night dinner for me was a bag of microwave popcorn! I've been lucky in that popcorn has been a friendly food since my surgeries ten years ago. Even the large diet coke I wash it down with sits well with me. As I said, "I'm lucky."