Feeling much more positive today, thank goodness. Bad night's sleep, but last night I thought really hard how to get around the drink thing. I realised that I like warm food, hence the soup, so I shall avoid cold food and drink, and stick to hot things. I can't feel it so much when it's hot.
I also remembered a few things.
When I was about 14yrs old, my mum told me I was too thin and she wanted to "fatten me up", so she told me she was going to buy 1 pint of Guernsey full fat milk every day, "it's expensive you know, so I'm doing it for your own good". She watched over me every day drinking it. It was cold, creamy, and I felt every bit of it going down in to my tummy, where it sat there for hours. REally horrible.
Another one. I didn't like taking medicine, so she used to pin me down on the floor, hold my nose and force the liquid in.
Finally, when I was a baby being weaned, my mum told me that I would turn my face away, and clamp my mouth shut when being presented with the first mouthful of food. Once the first spoonful was in my mouth I would relax and eat. THis is was my mum told me, but I don't know how she got the first spoonful in. That would be interesting to know.
There are other things, such as getting a bit wheezy (in an asthma sort of way) when being presented with a new food to try. I was frightened of not liking the taste or texture. I really didn't trust food.
That says a lot to me. I shall definitely be talking to the counsellor about it all. Very interesting!
Thanks alypaly for your info on dehydration. What does ketoacidosis do to the body if there's too much around? Ta