intellect speaking....
RaVae is back from having a well chewed* lunch at Olive Garden with her sis. RaVae loves Olive Garden. She ate a lot but not to the point of hurting. And she's not going to eat again until tomorrow at 7 unless she feels lots of hunger pangs.
*Thought I might tell about RaVae's journey from scarfing food to well chewing food.
About a year ago she went to the hospital with horrendous stomach pains. She was in so much pain she couldn't even lay down to take x-rays. They had to give her morphine for the pain to take the tests. They were taking about putting her in the hospital and maybe even surgery. And RaVae had plans to leave town the next day to go on a huge vacation.
Then another doctor came in and said maybe you don't need to be hospitalized if you can follow some very strict rules for a week. The main rule was you need to only eat liquidish food for the next week. RaVae said she would. He also said it was her choice rather she went on vacation or not.
Fast forward three day into the vacation...
RaVae had been eating only liquidish type food and her tummy is doing fine. She starts adding foods but being sure she chews them to liquid before she swallows. She does this for a week and continues because she's afraid more pain, hospital and possible surgery.
What she learned... RaVae found that she really enjoys chewing/tasting her food. For the first time in her life she really knows what things taste like. (Having never really chewed before she didn't realize what she was missing. All this created very strong conditioning for chewing in her mind. In fact this kind of opened the world of chew before you swallow to her.) Sometimes bad things have huge silver linings!
RaVae is back from having a well chewed* lunch at Olive Garden with her sis. RaVae loves Olive Garden. She ate a lot but not to the point of hurting. And she's not going to eat again until tomorrow at 7 unless she feels lots of hunger pangs.
*Thought I might tell about RaVae's journey from scarfing food to well chewing food.
About a year ago she went to the hospital with horrendous stomach pains. She was in so much pain she couldn't even lay down to take x-rays. They had to give her morphine for the pain to take the tests. They were taking about putting her in the hospital and maybe even surgery. And RaVae had plans to leave town the next day to go on a huge vacation.
Then another doctor came in and said maybe you don't need to be hospitalized if you can follow some very strict rules for a week. The main rule was you need to only eat liquidish food for the next week. RaVae said she would. He also said it was her choice rather she went on vacation or not.
Fast forward three day into the vacation...
RaVae had been eating only liquidish type food and her tummy is doing fine. She starts adding foods but being sure she chews them to liquid before she swallows. She does this for a week and continues because she's afraid more pain, hospital and possible surgery.
What she learned... RaVae found that she really enjoys chewing/tasting her food. For the first time in her life she really knows what things taste like. (Having never really chewed before she didn't realize what she was missing. All this created very strong conditioning for chewing in her mind. In fact this kind of opened the world of chew before you swallow to her.) Sometimes bad things have huge silver linings!
