I throw up a lot. A lot. I wouldn't if I didn't have to, and it is very strange to me that people do this on purpose in order to lose weight. It is extremely unpleasant.
After each bout, I always want to eat. I'm in pain, I'm shaking and weak, and I'm emotionally upset. I sure as shootin' don't want to start the whole thing all over again. So what do I do? I eat toast. Specifically I very slowly eat a piece or more of dry rye toast accompanied by a nice glass of filtered tap water.
It almost always makes me feel better. I do not understand why.
So the other night I'm sitting on the couch, nibbling my toast, coming back to myself while watching more bad TV, and suddenly I just have to know.
"WHY does toast work?" I say aloud.
And from another part of the apartment, my true love replies in an exasperated voice, "I don't know! Because butter is collecting disability?"
Yuck. Not fun. But the rejoinder is, of course, very funny. It's usually tea and toast when I'm sick.
Posted by: leslee | November 15, 2008 at 08:04 AM
After chemo, I now go on "all bran muffin diet." It is the only thing I want to eat for at least 24 hours, sometimes much longer. If it works, it works I say. And any child who might ask, "Mama, may I please have a bran muffin?" is in for a tongue lashing.
Of course, this week end we are making oatmeal chocolate chip muffins to compensate.
Posted by: laurie | November 15, 2008 at 11:43 AM
Leslee: The rejoinder made me feel better than the toast. :) (But I still want to know why toast is so efficacious.)
Laurie: Mmm, bran muffins. Does the fact that bran muffins almost always sound better to me than chocolate chip muffins prove that I am old?
Glad you are feeling better. :) Now you have three lovely weeks before you have to do that again, right? Enjoy.
Posted by: Sara | November 15, 2008 at 03:42 PM
Because toast is genius.
Posted by: Kay Olson | November 16, 2008 at 05:14 AM
Do you think some kinds of toast are smarter than others, or do some individual slices just work a lot harder?
Posted by: Sara | November 16, 2008 at 03:23 PM
Hmm, well, I oppose all Bread IQ Tests on principle. A good test of a particular slice's genius though, is to lay it, freshly toasted, on the counter for a couple seconds, then lift it and see if it left any brainiac toast sweat behind. (I typed "braniac" the first time, a subconscious homage to bran?)
Posted by: Kay Olson | November 17, 2008 at 07:54 PM