"Omelet" > wrote in message
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> In article >,
> Janet Wilder > wrote:
>
>> jmcquown wrote:
>> > "Ed Pawlowski" > wrote in message
>> > ...
>> >>
>> >> "SteveB" <toquervilla@zionvistas> wrote in message
>> >> ...
>> >>> Any here who are post CABG (coronary artery bypass surgery). Would
>> >>> you care to share your recipes and food practices with regard to
>> >>> cholesterol, coumadin, et al? Other tips or practices?
>> >>>
>> >>> Thanks in advance.
>> >>>
>> >>> Steve
>> >>
>> >> My wife takes coumadin. The most important thing is to know what
>> >> foods affect it and be consistent with them. Green salads are OK if
>> >> you eat them in moderation two or three times a week, but if you eat
>> >> spinach every day for a week, then don't eat any for a month, you will
>> >> be out of whack for the PT test.
>> >>
>> >
>> > They put my mother back on coumadin while she was in the hospital.
>> > When
>> > she came home and I went over the list of (30!) meds they had her on
>> > (he
>> > wasn't the one who prescribed this madness) I pointed out spinach is
>> > one
>> > of the few things she'll eat. And she can't eat spinach if she's
>> > taking
>> > coumadin. He prescribed a low-dose aspirin instead. You do indeed
>> > have
>> > to be careful about food and drug interactions.
>> >
>> > Jill
>>
>> He could have adjusted the dosage to accommodate the spinach.
>
> Uh, I think that's harder than you think. You'd have to have access to
> constant lab testing.
> --
> Peace! Om
>
> "Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity
> cannot survive." -- Dalai Lama



And at that point I wasn't about to limit what she could/would eat for sake
of coumadin. The daily low-dose aspirin accomplished the same thing. And
she could eat Stouffer's Spinach Souffle with impunity It was all about
making her comfortable, in the end. And she was comfortable. She died in
her own bed, at home, with someone who loved her by her side.

Jill