My surgery countdown food bucket list

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As requested by SandwichShortOfAPicnic and Barriehie I'm making this thread to post pre surgery food countdown bucket list, with occasional pictures.
As long as I'm not yet having surgery I will regularly update this thread. They will be mostly unhealthy food or food that's harder to digest after surgery. So this is not a health thread.

Today I had my possibly final Big Mac, Mcdonalds fries and Dutch special Mcdonalds sauce.

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Now for the bucket list.

Completed already:
[x] I had Stroopwafels from the market this weekend Stroopwafel - Wikipedia
[x] I had dim sum last week with a friend
[x] Had ravioli
[x] Had Gratin dauphinois

Holiday bucketlist:
Belgian fries with at least three different sauces
Belgian fries + mussels
Shrimp croquettes
Cheese croquettes
Belgian waffle with cream and strawberries
Fresh Liege waffle
Belgian chocolate
Rabbit stew
Cuberdons
Cherry beer (kriek)

Bucket list general:
Peppersteak & fries
Indonesian rice table with Dutch friends
Sushi
Cheesecake
Pepperoni pizza
Indian thali with all the trimmings and garlic naan
Dutch licorice
Lasagne
Chocolate chip cookies
Easter bread (stollen)
Fudge
Caramel apple
Lemon cake or key lime pie

I wonder if I get to the end of this before I start. We'll see. And if I think of anything more I will take a pic.
 
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You are going to get through this.
You are coming out of surgery and you are going to recover. It may take months, but you will recover.
Don't tell us you're never going to eat this stuff again, because you are. It just maybe later, rather than sooner, but you will get to enjoy these things again.
Am I speaking from experience? Yes.
Not my experience, but my brother's. He had cancer at 26, and then another (prostate) operation at 56. Cut a long story short, it was a 13 hour operation, they removed 1 mt of his intestine, he was in ICU for 3 months, double colostomy bags for 10 months; and yet, he came back, ate his McD's, his chicken curries, etc., for another 10 years.
Keep positive. You're going to be just fine.
 
Do you know already what you want included in the rijsttafel?
Mine would probably have rendang, tempeh, satay, babi kecap, telor belado, daging rujak, krupuk, emping, gado gado, sambal goreng buncis and more, IF my stomach were big enough.
And spekkoek :)

And then go another time for a fully fish and seafood one
 
karadekoolaid said:
You are going to get through this.
You are coming out of surgery and you are going to recover. It may take months, but you will recover.
Don't tell us you're never going to eat this stuff again, because you are. It just maybe later, rather than sooner, but you will get to enjoy these things again.
Am I speaking from experience? Yes.
Not my experience, but my brother's. He had cancer at 26, and then another (prostate) operation at 56. Cut a long story short, it was a 13 hour operation, they removed 1 mt of his intestine, he was in ICU for 3 months, double colostomy bags for 10 months; and yet, he came back, ate his McD's, his chicken curries, etc., for another 10 years.
Keep positive. You're going to be just fine.
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It's the possible gastric sleeve that would reduce my food options severely, and make a lot of this list indeed impossible to eat or at least in very small quantities.
That's not unrealistic at all, that's a well known side effect of cutting away 80% of your stomach, and that's on top of already having lost my colon. Plus my entire small intestine is currently outside my abdomen and needs to be pushed back which can cause strictures and possibly more loss of party of my small intestine.

Telling me it will all be fine, while well intended seems a bit premature. It's a minimum of three surgeries too.
I don't know, I hope you are right but my surgeon has graduated at Oxford and says he's only seen one other person who had what I have and that person died.
I'm also quite sure I won't die, but otherwise there really are no guarantees.
 
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