Hospital Food: Soy + Sugar = Ugh!

[mizski]

UPDATE: I'm losing this battle folks. Surgery #2 is scheduled in a few weeks and my conversations with the hospital were not encouraging. I suppose in the grand scheme of things, what I eat when there pales in comparison to more important things like, Did I survive surgery? or Did I make it out of the hospital without getting sepsis or MRSA?

Still, I was really hoping that I wouldn't totally blow my WOE during my stay. They seemed totally baffled by mention of low carb. I tried to explain: meats, eggs, cheese, veggies. Their reply: "You mean like a low fat diet? We can try to do that." I learned my lesson from surgery #1 and requesting a diabetic diet. This time I just said I was allergic to soy. Maybe that will save me from all their fake meats (TVP). The hospital is 200+ miles away from home so bringing food from home is out. So, I will just have to make do with eating acceptable foods from the tray they give me.

I am NOT going to eat those popsicles though!

[RitaCeleste]

Lots of grocery stores sell rotisserie chickens. A can opener and some cans of green beans and a couple of rotisserie chickens could get you threw it. Not great to have the chicken left out but the way those lunches sit around, can't be too much worse. I know they may shoot the chickens up with sugar water, but it won't be as many carbs as the toast. Even if you aren't able to do Atkins in the hospital, when you get home you can. Its a few miserable days getting the junk out of your system though.

[mizski]

Originally Posted by RitaCeleste

Lots of grocery stores sell rotisserie chickens. A can opener and some cans of green beans and a couple of rotisserie chickens could get you threw it.

I just had this visual of me checking in at admitting and in the contents of my clear plastic patient belongings bag is my clothes, my glasses and...a rotisserie chicken and some cans of green beans!

[RitaCeleste]

Your husband wouldn't get it and bring it to you? Here people tote food into the hospitals all the time. Getting a cig is tricky if you have to get a nurse to watch the baby while you go smoke it though. But food, they pretty let you bring in if you are allowed solid food. You get broth if you are not anyway. Of course here the family guards the people in the hospital a lot and brings in food. Some hospitals have a McDonald's IN the hospital. When Gabby was in the mental ward in Augusta we went and got her chicken sandwiches from their McDonald's. As long as they don't have to cook it, turns out they could care less where you get food from. They bring a tray, they bill you for it whether you eat it or want it or not, if you got something better, oh well.

[mizski]

Well, we haven't figured things out yet, but remember that we live almost 250 miles from the hospital so making daily food deliveries to me probably isn't going to work. Right now I'm thinking he should go home once I'm out of surgery and settled in my room. And given the distance, the road construction and gridlock traffic (last time the drive took almost FIVE hours one way ), I'm going to suggest he not make trips every day and just come get me when I can go home. Not the best plan but probably one that makes the most sense.

Back to the hospital food and some of the earlier posts, I'm still amazed and very disappointed that they don't have healthier foods.

Thanks for the suggestions though. I remember bringing my mom all kinds of home cooked foods and goodies during her stays in the hospital (back then they let you stay after most surgeries...now they kick your butt out after you wake up except for major operations).

[sporty]

Honestly I would just get through your surgery and then back on the wagon. I wouldnt stress to much over it. As you said in the grand scheme of things your health is much more important.

I went through surgery last month and also found it hard during my hospital visit. I didnt stay overnight but while there I had the glucose in my iv, pudding to get down meds, etc. I came out of ketosis but back in after a few days.

I am sure you will be fine once you get through this bump in the road! I will say a prayer that surgery goes well.

T