Just a Bit of Mustard

02-07-2012

My surgery was on December, 20, 2011, I am a little more then a month and a half out and I have already learned some amazing “tricks.”

I think I have mentioned that vomiting is just par for the course especially if you get something stuck in your esophagus, but what I may have neglected is nausea.  I know no one even wants to think about it, but its part of it.  So what is the last thing you would help that?  How about mustard?  That’s right, plain cheap yellow mustard.  When I first heard that I thought if I was nauseated just the thought of eating straight mustard would make me want to hurl.

I was at work one day and I started to get nauseated, I did not have my Nauzine® with me (I had not thought to bring it to work)  Let me say that for me Nauzine® works amazingly well.  It tastes kind of like salty cherries  which I know does not sound good, but really it’s not bad and it works (for me) like magic and super quick.  I did not have that with me and I was getting more nauseated by the minute.  I remembered what a lady from work had told me about mustard; I did have that in my desk.  I was a little leery of it but like I said I was feeling worse by the minute.  So I squeezed out a little line of mustard on to my little finger (tip to first line of the first knuckle on the inside of my finger and slowly licked it off.  In a few minutes I actually felt a little bit better, so I had a little bit more (a little more then the first time) and Voila.  A few minutes later I had just a bit more (for good measure) I couldn’t believe how well it worked.

I told my work friend that I had tried her “trick” and how much I had eaten, she said that she use to eat it by the spoonful; and still keeps a bottle at her desk.

A. Dawn