AlexIce
Silver Member
Woke up this morning at 5am with a headache after two days ill with flu. At 6:45 I eventually decided to get up and go to the kitchen and read medicine instructions to see what I could take. While reading the instructions, my vision went all dark and the next thing I knew I was waking up flat out on the floor. I thought I was still in bed at first and that the bed had got cold then I realised it was the cold kitchen floor tiles. I must have fainted and then knocked myself out when I fell as I was out for about 15 minutes.
It took me ages to get to the stage where I could get off the floor and get to the phone to call my friend who lives just round the corner and is a doctor. She and her husband took me to the surgery where the duty doctor decided I needed to go to hospital so I was loaded onto an ambulance - my first trip in an ambulance - I had always wondered what it would be like and now I know, I don't like it.
When we got to the hospital they xrayed me to see if I had broken my tail bone and when I told them about the diet I was doing they were very alarmed and said these low cal diets were very bad and they would have to do a complete blood analysis cos my body would be lacking in all sorts of things. I tried to tell them CD was very complete and that I was fine in that dept. but of course they didn't listen.
An hour later the results of the blood test came back and they had to eat their words cos all my levels of everything were perfectly normal and they couldn't fault a single thing. They sent me home with pain killers for my backside, and the huge cartoon type lump on my head and the advice to carry on with the diet but to eat something extra today just to give my system a bit of a boost. (my friend made me some chicken soup with a little pasta)
Comedy result - as I still have flu, every time I cough the muscle spasms hurt my bum so every time I cough I grab my bum!
CD result - more doctors converted to the attitude that not all vlc diets are evil!
Hurray for CD
It took me ages to get to the stage where I could get off the floor and get to the phone to call my friend who lives just round the corner and is a doctor. She and her husband took me to the surgery where the duty doctor decided I needed to go to hospital so I was loaded onto an ambulance - my first trip in an ambulance - I had always wondered what it would be like and now I know, I don't like it.
When we got to the hospital they xrayed me to see if I had broken my tail bone and when I told them about the diet I was doing they were very alarmed and said these low cal diets were very bad and they would have to do a complete blood analysis cos my body would be lacking in all sorts of things. I tried to tell them CD was very complete and that I was fine in that dept. but of course they didn't listen.
An hour later the results of the blood test came back and they had to eat their words cos all my levels of everything were perfectly normal and they couldn't fault a single thing. They sent me home with pain killers for my backside, and the huge cartoon type lump on my head and the advice to carry on with the diet but to eat something extra today just to give my system a bit of a boost. (my friend made me some chicken soup with a little pasta)
Comedy result - as I still have flu, every time I cough the muscle spasms hurt my bum so every time I cough I grab my bum!
CD result - more doctors converted to the attitude that not all vlc diets are evil!
Hurray for CD