Sometimes when I get busy, I get all into what I'm doing, and I forget to eat.
I know, it doesn't really show on my hefty frame, but I'd bet that you've done the same thing yourself from time to time.
Today I went to the doctor and had a fluoroscopy, which is apparently "an x-ray in motion" so that they could see my guts, and what's going on with my throat. The idea here is to see mechanically what's happening when I swallow.
The Doctor handed me a paper cup, which was filled with the heaviest liquid I'd ever held; barium. You know, from the periodic table. Barium = Ba. It's heavy, and chalky, and thick, and really one of the worst flavors I've ever experienced. I had to really concentrate to not throw up with each gulp.
So, I had to swallow and drink and sip this strawberry flavored barium, and I just wasn't so hungry because it weighed a ton in my stomach.
So, now it's not even 5:00 yet, and I find my stomach is done with the barium, and is ready for some good non-chalk or metal-based foods. You know, something with nutritional value.
I support this notion.
I also support not getting x-rayed in the next 15 years again.
Over and out!
- Daniel
