Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Achalasia is fantastic!! Stinky Cheese and the Richie Rich's

Our new very good friend Joelle decided to come with us to Strasbourg to show us around a little before I had to go to IRCAD for a consult with the anesthesiologist. She was raised in Strasbourg and we learned quite a bit from her in the short time we were together about the history and the traditional ways of Alsace, what a treat!

We were met in the lobby by Dr. Perretta. She escorted us to the connected hospital (which is affiliated with Strasbourg University) to meet with the anesthesiologist for a brief consultation. They did an EKG, drew some blood, asked basic medical and health questions, proclaimed me fit for surgery and sent us on our way.

Today my diet is liquid only!! and nothing at all after 7 pm. Liquid Hmm. So I emailed the wonderful Lisa L. back in Portland to see what Exactly the parameters were. Liquid includes such things as creamy soups Hmm?? That was last night around 9 pm (noon Oregon time). At that point Kelly typed out a note on her phone, translated it to french and wrote it down for Joelle to see so she did not make quite so much food in the morning that might not get eaten. Claude saw the note first and informed Joelle of the situation. A communication glitch led Joelle to believe I had already had surgery prior to arriving at her house so she thought something must be wrong and was concerned when we saw her this morning. Joelle had no less than three types of soup for me to choose from for breakfast. Blended rice and chocolate soup, blended tomato vegetable and the most delicious blended fish soup ever. Kelly is emailing with her right now and they are meeting for dinner tomorrow while I am in the hospital for the night, cute cute.

So, I asked Dr. Perretta what she would have for dinner if she were on the same dietary restrictions as myself. Dr. Perretta is a very well respected surgeon at IRCAD and knows Exactly what is allowed. "You should find a very large Chocolate Mousse". Dr.'s orders, back to the Chocolatier for dinner. You can not tell by the pictures below but the mousse was filled with vanilla creme brûlée (bar NONE the best meal I have EVER had!!). For dessert I had a dark chocolate caramel (gooey) topped with sea salt. Kelly had stinky cheese, salami and Joelle's bread, i would have loved that for a starter course.

Life is good and you don't know the half of it.

Let's just say we were waiting in the lobby of Cour du Corbeau for our taxi to IRCAD, a television film crew arrived and interviewed Kelly because our hotel has just been chosen today as the "Best hotel in ALL of France". We are in a Jr. Suite from which the first photo on their website slideshow was taken (looking down an exterior walkway). The normal rate for our room is posted in the lobby, $510 per night. Swank

If you have smelled ripe munster cheese (Joelle does not allow the stuff unwrapped in her house) you can appreciate the fact that our packs were filled with the stuff as we sheepishly made our way with the porter to our room in the best hotel in France. It smells very similar to Durian, the spiny large fruit the Thai's love that is so freakin' foul, shivers down my spine yuck. The munster tastes delicious however. Same same but different.

Taxi at 6:00 am to IRCAD for surgery after which I will get a list from Dr. Perretta and Dr. Swanstrom of what they would eat for the next week if they were me. Dr.'s orders!!


The iphone app does not let me post links or move photos.

The photos below are:

1) hotel courtyard
2) dinner
3) walking in Petite France, Strasbourg
4) Kelly and Joelle taken from her garden
5) our room with the bay window
6) strasbourg cathedral
7) ircad
8) dr. Perretta
9) the classic french way. A bowl of coffee
10) fish soup






















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