Another Cause For Celebration

As it turns out, you can purée almost anything and push it through a g-tube!

We were out shopping yesterday afternoon and as we were heading to the last destination on our itinerary, we passed one of the few remaining Long John Silver’s restaurants in Phoenix.

In short, we stopped on the way home and I picked up a two piece fish basket, thinking I’d try to eat at least a bit of it normally and throw the rest of it in the Ninja and push it through the tube.

Which is exactly what I did. I chewed and swallowed one of the two big fish pieces. And it was delicious. The other piece of fish, the fries, the hush puppies, the little deep fried batter bits, and the coleslaw went into the Ninja (although not all at once). I can’t describe how…satisfying…it was to have a full stomach after so many months of a liquid diet.

Today, after my PT session, I stopped at Lenny’s Burgers on the way home and satisfied my long-running craving for cheeseburger (never mind my 20 minute wait in the drive-thru even though I was only the second in line; slowest fucking drive-through in Phoenix), thinking I would do the same thing.

I ate half and Ninja’ed the remainder.

I don’t need to tell you how much this has improved my mood.

Baby steps, right?

Perhaps still not as satisfying as sitting down and stuffing my face with wanton abandon, but damn…this will be an acceptable alternative until I can do that again!