This Video Saved Me from Hunger

I had been drinking at least 3 Ensures each day just like the doctor ordered. Despite that, I was quickly burning through my calorie reserves. After a few days, I started feeling light-headed despite drinking plenty of Ensures, beef and chicken broths, juices, and baby food diluted with water daily.

Baby food is great in terms of nutrition. But the problem is that a container of baby food is only about 90 calories. You'd have to eat about 6 to get a meal's worth of calories. And if you're diluting it with water to suck up into your syringe, that will take a long, long time to finish. I usually got through only about 1 baby food container per day, on top of everything else I was consuming.

After about three evenings in a row of feeling light-headed, I thankfully stumbled upon the following YouTube video. It's titled: Don't starve when your jaw is wired shut! Don't be hungry!

I was so, so happy once I saw it. Also hungrier. It showed me how to eat REAL food. In another one of the poster's videos, he mentioned the Cuisinart Stick Blender (CSB-77). The next day, I searched all the local stores for that blender. I could only find the CSB-75, which is a slightly cheaper model. But it seemed like the blending power was the same as the CSB-77, with the only difference being the body's material. It worked great pureeing my canned ravioli! Much better at blending than our old, bulky large blender. In hindsight, some of the other brands of hand blenders will probably work just as well.

I feel so thankful and grateful to have found that video. Prior to that, I had texted my surgeon mentioning that I was hungry, to which he suggested drinking more Ensure. I highly doubt subsisting primarily on Ensure for several weeks is a good idea. Certainly feeling light-headed from hunger can't be healthy.

Now I feel a lot of sympathy for people who frequently experience hunger. I hope to donate money to a food-related charity once my jaws are set free. I also feel for the supermodels out there who have to starve themselves in order to keep booking jobs. Apparently, some of them faint from hunger on a regular basis. What a sad situation it is for all who experience prolonged hunger.