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The GI clinic is 2 hours from home so we booked a hotel room for the night. It was a great way to break up the really awful day of diet prep. Tootsie is not a fan of chicken or potatoes so we had to get creative. I cooked some chicken tenderloins in the Instant Pot with some water, salt & pepper, then ran them through the food processor and shaped the meat into nuggets. Then put a couple slices of Udi's White Sandwich bread in the food processor & rolled the nuggets in the crumbs. I refrigerated them overnight and microwaved them for 30 seconds when she was ready to eat them. She said they tasted pretty good. That's huge coming from a girl that generally won't touch chicken with a ten foot pole! I picked up some plain baked potatoes at Wendy's and some jasmine rice at Asian1 on the way. She took some Zofran at 11am and at 7pm. That really helped keep the nausea away from being hungry.
Once we got settled in we went for a dip in the pool. It was a nice distraction. We had some decaf tea and watched a movie before calling it a night.
I had Tootsie take another Zofran at 7:30am. She was starting to feel really nervous about the test because of her past history of vomiting. I assured her this medicine was suppose to help with that. Here she is trying to get the solution down...
They gave us a "sick bag" just in case! And said no screen time for at least an hour because that tends to make kiddos feel nauseous. Just before the first breath collection (after baseline) she began to have diarrhea. That continued for the first hour of the test.
Woohoo! She made it. Bag #10! She blew into these bags every 20 minutes for 3 hours.
Here she is at her favorite restaurant. She loves the grilled cheese on a gluten-free bun with American cheese. Sounds delicious, doesn't it? lol Poor little thing looks like she's been through the wringer. I'm so proud of her. She is such a trooper! Her strength amazes me.
We go back down in a couple weeks to go over the results.
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