Planning for post-Diverticulitis Surgery

Not that I think anyone is going to read this now, but perhaps some day this portion of my blog will help someone else who is looking for recipes to take care of someone recovering from intestinal surgery in the future...

I'm going home from Baltimore to Chicago in three weeks to take care of my mother who is having surgery to remove a portion of her colon that is plagued by diverticulitis.  (In case you don't know what that is, WebMD says: Diverticulosis happens when pouches (diverticula ) form in the wall of the colon . If these pouches get inflamed or infected, it is called diverticulitis. http://www.webmd.com/digestive-disorders/tc/diverticulitis-topic-overview)  She has a pretty bad case of it and has for a while.  SO, she'll have the nasty bits removed and go back to living a nice digestive life filled with nuts, seeds, and other previously aggitation/aggrivation/inflammation-causing foods.

My job, as it has been assigned to me, is to come up with a battery of culinary delights that fit into her post-op diet, make them, and keep her from going insane as a result of not being allowed to eat solid foods for at least a week or two.  I have accepted this challenge! 

I have already started researching recipes and will definitely post them here.  I'm hoping (since I won't have a whole lot else to do while I'm home and caring for her) that I'll be able to catalog the foods as I make them as well.  I'm thinking daily menus and such...

At any rate, that's a project that's in the works too.  I'm also actually going to get in the habit of posting new recipes that I am eating as a part of my revamped way of eating, but I haven't gotten around to it yet.  Until next time...