Taking a Cooked Holiday

Well, there is method behind my madness...

After suffering chronic diarrhea from Friday afternoon to Tuesday evening, my weight had gone down to 44.5 kilos. It has never been that low in my life. My old lady eyes were sunken in my head, hooded and triangular, and everything I ate passed right through me. I was going to the bathroom several times an hour and chronically dehydrated. All the while, I was continuing to breastfeed my baby.

As an alternative to going to hospital, I decided to follow my father's (he's a doctor) and husband's advice and eat foods like boiled rice and oatmeal. Slowly, the diarrhea began to abate, thanks also to a poison-absorbing medicine called cream of bismuth which is similar to kaolin. Today is the first day I am back to normal, and my third day on cooked. I really feel I had no choice.

I would like to go raw again tomorrow but may have to take it slowly and go far part raw and part steamed vegetables as my stomach and health are still quite delicate. I feel great compared to how I was during the illness although admittedly not so clean and fresh as on raw!!

I am 99% sure this was a bug caught from contaminated water. Probably something to do with the water that lettuces have been hosed down with by the grocers. They are then left in the heat and who knows what grows on them. I will have to use hydrogen peroxide to clean everything with in future.