Hospital Dietary and Nutrition Services Notes

Hospital Dietary and Nutrition Services Notes:

Patient is a full blown PITA.  Claims to be a vegetarian, and when we tried to put eggs on her plate, thanked me but said no.  When asked about diary, said she is intolerant.







She wouldn't even eat the hash browns.  When told the lunch menu items on the vegetarian menu were macaroni and cheese and french fries, she asked for salad and fruit.  When given a fruit cup, she noted that pasteurized fruit cups have sugar and very little nutritional value left.

The only thing she was willing to eat all week were the side salads and fresh cut up fruit or whole fruit.  She picked at the steamed veggies and picked the vegetarian red beans off of the rice and said that potatoes are for fattening pigs and corn for fattening cattle, and neither are real vegetables except the non-GMO corn, whatever that is, and it has to be served raw, of all things.

She keeps saying crazy stuff like that sugar is poison, white food is white like cocaine or heroin because those foods are as addictive as the drugs, and that she gave up all but the food the Good Lord grows out of the ground years ago so she could lose her weight and she's kept it off the same way and she isn't about to change now.

Patient won't accept peanut butter, she says peanuts are the wrong kind of protein for humans to digest, since they aren't real nuts, but legumes.  The real nut here is her.

Her kids keep smuggling in stuff from health food stores that looks like nuts and seeds and rabbit food.  Flipping insane.  Claims to eat an almost totally "raw vegan" diet, whatever that is.  It sounds subversive.

The only normal thing about her is that she loves coffee.  She says she's a Louisiana girl and will have her coffee, black as the swamp mud and hot as the bayou, it's part of the religion of the region.  Being a coffee drinker myself, this i get.

The rest of it is nutty bat-crap crazy, and if you people ever assign me a patient like this again to try to feed, I Quit!

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America's Kids Day -- founded to encourage parents to teach their children the value of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness

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Burning of the Lamps in Egypt at Sais -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar, a celebration of Isis and Neith (date approximate)

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Feast of Rahmat (Mercy) -- Baha'i

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Anniversaries Today:

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Birthdays Today:

Sherry Stringfield, 1967
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Battle of Cedynia, the first documented victory of Polish forces, takes place, 972
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exploration of the region since the Vikings, 1497
Miguel Lopez de Legazpi founds Manila, the capital of the Republic of the Philippines, 1571
Samuel de Champlain discovers the mouth of the Saint John River, site of Reversing Falls and the present day city of Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, 1604
The colony of New Jersey is founded, 1664
Kingston, Jamaica is founded, 1692
The Premier Grand Lodge of England, the first Masonic Grand Lodge in the world (now the United Grand Lodge of England), is founded in London, England, 1717
The first republican constitution in France is adopted, 1793
The decisive battle in the war of independence of Venezuela from Spain, the Battle of Carabobo takes place, 1821
First performance of O Canada, the song that would become the national anthem of Canada, at the Congrès national des Canadiens-Français, 1880
The first exhibition of Pablo Picasso's work opens, 1901
Mary Pickford becomes the first female film star to get a million dollar contract, 1916
The first airmail service in Canada from Montreal to Toronto begins, 1918
Siam is renamed Thailand by Plaek Pibulsonggram, the third prime minister, 1939
The Soviet Union makes overland travel between the West with West Berlin impossible, 1948
The United Kingdom grants Zanzibar internal self-government, 1963
Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud completes his first mission, becoming the first Arab and first Muslim in space, as a Payload Specialist, 1985
John Isner of the United States defeats Nicolas Mahut of France at Wimbledon, in the longest match in professional tennis history, 2010