Platelets 139
WBC 1.4
|Neutrophils| 1.1
Creatinine 1.19
Received Two Blood Packs
More vomiting and nausea today. The doctors did a CT scan of my gut to make sure the constipation and associated discomfort wasn't something more serious. It wasn't, I'm simply packed to the gills with shit.
That's what I've been "eating" for the past 24 hours. The yellow fluid is a mixture of amino acids (protein building-blocks), dextrose (sugar), sodium, calcium, magnesium, phosphate, multivitamins, trace elements (cobalt, manganese, nickel, aluminum, etc - elements needed in extremely low concentrations), phytonadione (Vitamin K), insulin (to combat the dextrose), and then acetate and chloride to buffer the solution (make it suitable for administration in the body). Everything is computed exactly for my body mass and how many calories they want me to have.
The large yellow bag can be thought of as the proteins and carbs, then the smaller white bag is the fat (lipid). It's a 20% fat emulsion consisting of 50g soybean oil, 3.0g phospholipids from powdered egg yolk, and 5.625g glycerine (probably to help bind it all together). The lipid portion adds 500 calories.
Sounds delicious, no? Way better than eating vegetables or meat. Plus the whole chewing annoyance is conveniently avoided.
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