Cookies for friends in chemo

I was advised a high fiber diet, but couldn't adapt to it - here's why: Post my surgery, I was put on a high fiber diet - this was fed directly to my stomach through tubes, but then complications crept in within a couple of days and there was sepsis and then for the next 4 weeks or so, I was on 6 drips - 2 each on my wrists forearms and sides of my neck - I was not allowed even a drop of water, let alone solid foods during that period. 4 weeks, with great fear, I swallowed my first sip of fresh apple juice, and it was almost another 10 days before the doctors could convince me to try a solid diet. It was more than a couple of months after that, that I started eating 4-5 small meals everyday. Since I was too weak, the doctors decided not to prescribe chemo or radiotherapy for me. I am a vegetarian and the doctor wanted me to start eating eggs and meat so that I could put on weight and gain strength-I refused and somehow or the other managed to gain weight and strength with a vegetarian diet. I was always into sports - I was a medium distance runner as a young man - 5000 meters was my favorite and I was a mountaineer - I have climbed a few peaks in the Himalayas, I have done a bit of boxing at university level, besides which I have a very high threshold of pain - I think these factors contributed to a strong constitution and my survival. Today 9 years later, I find that I am stronger than many people ten or more years younger than I am. I have continued a mild exercise regime - I try and walk briskly at least 3-4 kilometers a day as opposed to the 20 kilometers that I used to run when at a stretch I practiced for the 5000 meters and the 1500 meters races that I took part in. But Slim down? I can't-now I am back to the 87 kilos that I was a year before I was diagnosed with cancer (93 kilos at that time). I have tried Oatmeal with milk, cereals too, but somehow or the other I end up with a feeling of fullness initially even with the smallest of helpings, sometimes just a couple of tablespoons only and then when the hunger hits after sometime, the feeling is terrible - the scar tissue of the surgery feels like an ever tightening belt around my stomach region and then my back starts hurting a lot too - so I try simple stuff like a couple of slices of bread with a dab of butter with a lot of vegetable slices - tomato (a fruit actually), cucumber, onion,potato (high carb) beet (again high carb and high sugar), etc.

I read the other discussion that you started about these cookies and I will admit that they sound good and it might be something that I will try and feed to Tom because he always has a lot of problems with going to the bathroom for a few days after his treatments. He only has four more treatments to go through, so we really don't have a lot longer to go, but I'm willing to let him try anything that might make things easier for him through the next two months.

Maybe once I get into an apartment I will look into making cookies. Hopefully that will happen in the near future. Have a great week!!!

Hi marguicha in your present health condition you need delicious but healthy food. At this opportunity you got the chance of inventing new food items. Enjoy cooking.May God bless you.

It sounds delicious I Am going to make some tomorrow thank you marguicha I hope you are feeling well.

hello, you are right, oatmeal is one of the best source of fibers, I think you just have to add more, try simple boiled oats in the morning with a little bit of cream or honey. Yes fiber in dough would be good for the pallet but it may contain too much oil, since it is a pathogenic condition that we are dealing with right now and more (fibers) could mean better, try also fiber dietary supplements in capsules and available in health stores because it's concentrated and you get fiber it its purest form, just a suggestion friend and all of us here continue to pray that you get well soon

They sound delicious and ever so good for you! I wonder if there are many recipe books out there especially for folks going through treatments such as chemotherapy. It would be a great idea to have something to help produce delicious foods that contain what the body has been deprived of through chemo. The cookies you describe would be very good for you.