tastes like cardboard
Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 5:48 pm
Oh, yeah, I will share the art story when I’m feeling a desperate moment and Kim seems to be going through a repetitive experience. I’m all over the shirt idea; the right time will come in the months to come. I need to see what Kim thinks of the video idea, sounds brilliant. Mac, I love the card idea to go with the shirt idea.
Pop Quiz
What did Kim do to get relief from Flagyl stomach crampy and burning pain?
a) Take Flagyl in the middle of the meal to sandwich it in her stomach
b) Drink boiled rice
c) Take some chlorella tablets
d) Drink more water
e) Nosh on nori
Ok, big hint is that I’m half Japanese and Michele on CPn recommended Chlorella which I Googled and learned that it’s seaweed! As an amateur sushi chef I have the seaweed paper in the house, nori. It’s the sheet-like stuff that is used to make maki rolls. I toasted up a sheet by fanning it over the stove until it was more dry and crunchy (you need to fan it over the heat to do this – there is a technique. About 3-4 minutes). Then I gave Kim the sheet of seaweed. She looked at it, then she looked at me as if I were Joe Rogan. It calmed her stomach. Hooray!
The other idea’s also came from the CPn website, but noshin’ on nori worked for Kim.
Pyruvate
Dr. Sriram got back with me. Calcium pyruvate is an acceptable substitute for sodium pyruvate. Kim is to take 1.5 grams 30 minutes before taking Azithromycin beginning in week 9, which would be immediately after her second Flagyl pulse is completed.
Bananas
Kim hates taking the Flagyl. She’s got to get the taste out of her mouth right away. Our home is now devoid of bananas. Now she’s working on a bag of Twizzlers. I want to give my own perspective here of how this stuff seems because the build up we’ve read really makes one fear this stuff. Now if you know what Novantrone does, it’s not so bad. Novantrone is way worse. You can’t drive for days after Novantrone and you just spend hours and hours in a drunken-like sleep deprived state of not really knowing what’s real and what’s dream. Novantrone leaves you nearly comatose for about 4-5 days then you slowly comeback.
Flagyl seems to be more like a long term game of outdoor winter quarters. You slowly get sicker and sicker like you’re getting a cold or flu and you slowly start feeling drunker and drunker over the 7 day pulse. So today, day 6, Kim seems to be like she has a severe flu and she’s sleeping a lot, but she can drive, but doesn’t want to and she is foggy and wobbly like she’s on her second six-pack. All this and no bananas. BUT WE HAVE NORI!!! Kim’s excited, like a real low key “is it almost over”, that tomorrow is her final day of Flagyl for a while. I think 15 days would not have worked, though I could envision her doing 8 or maybe 9. Ken
Pop Quiz
What did Kim do to get relief from Flagyl stomach crampy and burning pain?
a) Take Flagyl in the middle of the meal to sandwich it in her stomach
b) Drink boiled rice
c) Take some chlorella tablets
d) Drink more water
e) Nosh on nori
Ok, big hint is that I’m half Japanese and Michele on CPn recommended Chlorella which I Googled and learned that it’s seaweed! As an amateur sushi chef I have the seaweed paper in the house, nori. It’s the sheet-like stuff that is used to make maki rolls. I toasted up a sheet by fanning it over the stove until it was more dry and crunchy (you need to fan it over the heat to do this – there is a technique. About 3-4 minutes). Then I gave Kim the sheet of seaweed. She looked at it, then she looked at me as if I were Joe Rogan. It calmed her stomach. Hooray!
The other idea’s also came from the CPn website, but noshin’ on nori worked for Kim.
Pyruvate
Dr. Sriram got back with me. Calcium pyruvate is an acceptable substitute for sodium pyruvate. Kim is to take 1.5 grams 30 minutes before taking Azithromycin beginning in week 9, which would be immediately after her second Flagyl pulse is completed.
Bananas
Kim hates taking the Flagyl. She’s got to get the taste out of her mouth right away. Our home is now devoid of bananas. Now she’s working on a bag of Twizzlers. I want to give my own perspective here of how this stuff seems because the build up we’ve read really makes one fear this stuff. Now if you know what Novantrone does, it’s not so bad. Novantrone is way worse. You can’t drive for days after Novantrone and you just spend hours and hours in a drunken-like sleep deprived state of not really knowing what’s real and what’s dream. Novantrone leaves you nearly comatose for about 4-5 days then you slowly comeback.
Flagyl seems to be more like a long term game of outdoor winter quarters. You slowly get sicker and sicker like you’re getting a cold or flu and you slowly start feeling drunker and drunker over the 7 day pulse. So today, day 6, Kim seems to be like she has a severe flu and she’s sleeping a lot, but she can drive, but doesn’t want to and she is foggy and wobbly like she’s on her second six-pack. All this and no bananas. BUT WE HAVE NORI!!! Kim’s excited, like a real low key “is it almost over”, that tomorrow is her final day of Flagyl for a while. I think 15 days would not have worked, though I could envision her doing 8 or maybe 9. Ken