Gargling with Hydrogen Peroxide

My menu is limited to beef/chicken broth with acini di pepe (little granules of pasta, quite delicious really), yoghurt, ice-cream, sliced cling peaches, spinach, milk, and water. Tons of water. At least this is a better deal that the constant abdomen agony I experienced about a year ago.

Still, the tragedy of it all is that I have to gargle with a special liquid that numbs my mouth before I can eat anything. Every few hours, I gargle with the other solution which I mustn't swallow unless I'd like a quick trip to the ER unit.

Before I taught today (I warned my students that I might have to cancel class), I gargled with the mouth-numbing stuff, loaded up on lozenges, and then told the class that lessons were going to take place until the medicine wore off. I did cancel office hours though.

It's rather frustrating not being able to talk and eat at free will. I'm learning the value of having a healthy and functioning tongue. Once I get well, I'm treating myself to solid foods, which means meat, meat and more meat! Okay, some fish too. And French fries!

Posted by Monoceros at February 15, 2005 7:18 PM