Hospital Food

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1) What does she say about her first few days in the hospital?
She was on a drip.
She couldn't eat anything.
She couldn't drink anything.
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2) What does she say about being on a drip?
It made her restless.
It made her restless.
It lasted for over three weeks.
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3) What does she say about losing weight?
Her friends were surprised.
She lost 20 kilos.
She was on a diet before.
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4) What did being sick make her do?
Give up drinking
Reevaluate things
Give up chocolate
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Todd: So, Barbara, we're talking about your time in the hospital. You were in the hospital for sometime. First of all, how long were you actually in the hospital?

Barbara: Well, I was in two hospitals actually. At first, I was in a big hospital for three and a half weeks and I was on a drip for all of that time, and they didn't let me eat anything, and the first couple of days, they also didn't let me drink anything.

Todd: Whoa!

Barbara: Yeah.

Todd: So you were on a drip… I'm sorry, how long?

Barbara: Three and a half weeks.

Todd: Whoa! No solid food for three and a half weeks.

Barbara: No food for three and a half weeks.

Todd: Man!

Barbara: Yeah, I was dreaming about my mother's cooking, and I was dreaming about roast chicken and roast lamb and man, the smells and the tastes came back to me, but there was no food.

Todd: But after like, say two weeks or something, does your body just get used to not having food?

Barbara: Yeah. Yes, it does. Definitely. And I lost a lot of weight, but actually I felt fine. Friends who came to visit me in the hospital were surprised and they were like, “Wow! Where's the rest of you?”

Todd: You did lose a lot of weight. Actually, how much weight did you lose?

Barbara: I lost, well, I started losing weight because I was changing my diet just before I got ill. In the last eighteen months, I've lost twenty kilos.

Todd: Whoa! That's a lot.

Barbara: That is, indeed, yeah.

Todd: Twenty kilos… Wow! Well, you look great. You must feel great.

Barbara: I feel much better. Actually I think sick with that was probably a good thing. It made me take stock and reevaluate things and get healthy.