bodies are bullshit

[psocoptera]

So Monday I had a swallowing event, or rather a non-swallowing event involving complete blockage of the esophagus and a trip to the ER. (Not choking, but it turns out that you really want your saliva to be able to go somewhere.) Today I had an endoscopy and am learning about a variety of interesting conditions like "Schatzki ring" and "eosinophilic esophagitis", some of which they are still in the process of determining whether I have or not. Between then and now I've been unable to eat solid food and living off plant-based Ensure (vile! I get that it has to be sweet because you need sugars, but why play it up with the vanilla?), bone broth, soy milk, and pureed butternut soup, but the endoscopy doc thinks I should be safe to do soft solids. Probably what happens next is either another endoscopy soon or a more complicated Food Allergy Journey*. Endoscopy has always been very high on my personal "medical stuff I'm phobic about" list but the drugs work and the bit where I woke up a little feels more like a bad dream than an actual trauma.

(*the hypothetical elimination list is literally nearly everything I eat, so, that's pretty scary to contemplate, but it also sounds like there are different approaches, so, we'll see, I guess.)