Observations/tips two days ish after LL surgery

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I think you should just order whatever food you want and hope for the best 

When do you take x-rays next?

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the montaza hotel chocolate cake, ice cream, and french fries temporarily distract from the pain and seem a bit dangerous for this reason

gonna branch out and try some other dinner dishes aside from the burger I think, I think with enough salt I can overpower the lemon flavoring of the occasional chicken dishes

the pizza I would say is still not worth it, I mean its alot of calories and filling for 6.50 euros but at the end of the day its a bunch of hardish bread with a small amount of tomato sauce and some cheese

I keep forgetting to ask them for the dish of the day on the phone. But often its like "its X traditional Greek dish, it is sort of like pasta w/ red sauce and X and Y and a smallish amount of meat" and I'll be thinking "man I'm in pain, do I go with the cheap burger meal which I know will feel good w/ the fries or do I roll the dice on this more expensive thing I don't know how to spell and am not sure I can find a picture of?"

At the hospital, there were alot of greek dishes I think and somehow I didn't have much luck w/ the various pasta/tomato/cheese dishes, they are sort of lighter and different flavored, maybe different herbs than what I'm used to in the USA with fast food. Kind of like cheese with some sweeter notes and herbs i don'[t recognize and I didn't have much luck w/ it

The falafel wraps look delicious from afar, I should prolly look at the options again. I mean falafel is deep fried, no? I'm not sure how much better it is than french fries. Occasionally the hotel has a lemon flavored piece of chicken with a bunch of rice dish, I wonder when that will come back, I think I won't mind it and it will be a break from this fried stuff.

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Quote from: thankscience on October 05, 2022, 06:25:00 AMI think you should just order whatever food you want and hope for the best 

When do you take x-rays next?

er i think Its Monday? Prolly I should find out, I think its monday every two weeks for me not sure

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Looking at the novotel menu vs montaza hotel menu

novotel seems to have some like expensive higher end options like a 25 Euro salmon meal

but novotel doesn't seem to have like the 6-7 euro meal options that montaza has

novotel looks like it has a greater variety of ice cream options and more fruits and has more french stuff, probably because the french company accor owns novotel

probably my favorite fruit now are the green apples at montaza, something about that sour sugary taste in the skin

I think for the breakfast buffet I can eat like 5-6 eggs until I can't eat anymore, I mean maybe I could eat more if I had less chocolate milk or less orange juice

Although sometimes you'll hear from some of bodybuilders/ weightlifters that you gotta eat protein every X hours or 3 hours or w/e, but I'm skeptical of that. I mean if you eat a big breakfast buffet I have to think it takes a long time for all of that food to digest

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Looking at the novotel menu vs montaza hotel menu

novotel seems to have some like expensive higher end options like a 25 Euro salmon meal

but novotel doesn't seem to have like the 6-7 euro meal options that montaza has

novotel looks like it has a greater variety of ice cream options and more fruits and has more french stuff, probably because the french company accor owns novotel

probably my favorite fruit now are the green apples at montaza, something about that sour sugary taste in the skin

I think for the breakfast buffet I can eat like 5-6 eggs until I can't eat anymore, I mean maybe I could eat more if I had less chocolate milk or less orange juice

Although sometimes you'll hear from some of bodybuilders/ weightlifters that you gotta eat protein every X hours or 3 hours or w/e, but I'm skeptical of that. I mean if you eat a big breakfast buffet I have to think it takes a long time for all of that food to digest

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Trying to see if I can request a healthier starch option than french fries with the 6.50 euro burger meal, a little bit worried about the potential long term effects of eating french fries every day for several months (ex: supersize me movie)

It seems hit or miss when they have rice available

I mean I could ask for a bunch of toast/bread I guess but that would be pretty bland

wonder if I could ask for potatoes instead, maybe I'll do that

They probably have pasta on hand which might taste OK with salt

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I have an idea

I could buy the vanilla ice cream during breakfast and then eat with the chocolate cake they have at montaza. Or with the ice cream with the other sugar powdered cake they have sometimes

Probably not a great idea though, better to fill my stomach with the breakfast buffet food during breakfast time. and in fact maybe I should be just grabbing two plates of eggs first thing to ensure I eat more protein before I eat any cake or chocolate milk. I feel a bit awkward about asking for help to fill two plates of eggs--- usually, I ask for one plate, they fill up like 2/3 of a plate and they are like "want more?" I'm like "yup" they put a bit more, they ask me again, this repeats like 5 times until one plate is full

The eggs are positioned a big higher than what I can see from my wheelchair. At some point I should be make the trek to the breakfast buffet with the walker probably

I'm still wary of their sausages, they seem very soft/dough-like in consistency and I wish they were cooked a bit more, I'm a bit afraid of them after the time I puked after eating them (though that could be unrelated)

Definitely leg lengthening related

hamstring stretches seem to benefit from PNS (stretch, tense up muscle, relax, stretch with more range of motion than before) but I might try it with quads too

when I fit my wheelchair in the space between the bathroom door and the bed with the wheelchair facing the bed, the wheelchair seems to auto scrunch up into partial folded mode - probably from the lack of space

it sort of gives a cradle space in the middle to rest one leg on while another can rest on a wheelchair handle for a hamstring stretch

I'm trying to prioritize the most important things to bring back to the USA after I leave Greece. The pee bottle is useful but also very cheap/replaceable. Same with the grabber. The extra big ice packs for my legs were a big expensive so I might try to save those. Probably want to save the walker/crutches/wheelchair of course. Probably want to save all of my clothes, computers, etc. So I guess its a question of what I am comfortable with abandoning in Greece. Probably the pillows. The extra blanket I got was expensive though. I can probably abandon all my liquids, they are pretty replaceable. It is odd- I feel like I brought too much but I also somewhat feel that I use almost everything I brought. Wish I had brought a bigger second travel bag-> although it would be very clunky to bring with me, ultimately I'll just end up asking the airport to move it for me so its no problem

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Stuff I thought I would use but didn't end up using as much as I thought:

- portable thin book holders (holds books/papers upright) -> desk is too tiny, no space anyway

- my favorite extra big towel -> I used it as a blanket on the plane ride but I never use it now since I don't shower that often. also its size is a hassle during LL

- shower chair they give me -> I find myself using this next to my bed to stretch my hamstrings since I don't shower that often

- tablets -> thought I'd use these more but honestly with the m1 macbook air battery life/weight/having a keyboard there isn't much point to using tablets for what I mostly do (listen to youtube vids to distract me from pain)

- computer I use for gaming -> tiny desk at Montaza uncomfortable, I don't use it that much, I stay in bed more often and listen to stuff from my m1 macbook air, developing some right wrist pain also

- paper towels -> no point, just use the hotel's towels + toilet paper

what I am using more than I thought:

- I have a second grabber and I leave it in the bathroom, it helps me grab random stuff, helps me adjust my slippers

- vaseline, useful for all sorts of things, maybe I should have bought more, some brands are better quality than others

- cleaning wipes, so useful, so cheap

I spend alot of my time just eyes closed, lying down, listening to something, trying to escape from the pain and discomfort, waiting till I feel like doing some more stretches and then repeating this

I think it could be good to have two small water bottles and maybe like a strap connected to a grocery bag -> can fill up two water bottles each time you go to the bathroom so you have more water by the bed (handy for thirst, rinsing mouth, rinsing w/e)

I don't think a dry shampoo is that helpful because I can just sit on the toilet, reach my arms over to the sink and wash my hair that way

I thought that a VR headset would be nice during LL, but I actually think its probably worse than just a thin and light laptop with long battery life b/c of comfort and hassle

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Oh I guess I thought I would use my wireless keyboard and laptop and HDMI cable with the TV like back at home but that turned out to not be a thing, the TV is like up in the air and small

Maybe would be different for novotel, idk?

Its just alot easier to use a small thin and light laptop near you at all times than deal with the above

I think bringing some strong see through bags is useful and a bunch of nametags is useful. At montaza the storage room is sort of them just putting all the stuff on the floor together, good to have your stuff labeled I think

A small fan is quite useful for cooling off your butt b/c you'll spend alot of your time sitting on it

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On the plane ride, the seat table is a bit too low to use the laptop comfortably so I ended up just rewatching LOTR

I think maybe podcasts are ideal for the plane ride, you just close your eyes

I got the burger meal with pasta, it was 7.50 euros instead of 6.50 but at least it avoids eating fried foods

With some salt, the pasta tastes pretty good, I think they drizzled some oil on it to make it taste better not sure