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Rhandom Schittshowe Cancer Journey : 2024-07-23 : EMBRACE Dietary Study Meat Locker

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Type	Name	Description	Service Provider	Cost	Kms	To Date	Total	Notes	Actions
Other	EMBRACE Study - 28-Hour Session			$0.00

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Went into the ‘meat locker’ today. This is Part 2 of the Dietary Study (EMBRACE) that I'm participating in, and is a 28-hour stint in an air-tight room, which they call their hotel room (but Brent and I dubbed the 'meat locker'). The room is air tight with a big unit in the ceiling that records my oxygen and carbon dioxide for the 28-hours that I’m in here. For more information about the EMBRACE study, you can see my entry for Part 1.
Thoughts shared from the Meat Locker: To Brent 9:07: The first time they fed me scrambled eggs (during Part 1) they were ok. Today they are like an old tire. Yuk! To Brent 11:30: Finished the treadmill. Now I just sit and eat and sit and eat and sit and eat. With Brent Via WhatsApp 16:30: Their menu is way too much food. The lunch was too much - I almost couldn't finish it. Then just a couple hours later they brought a snack. Dinner will be soon, and then another snack at 8:00. Yikes! With Brent 17:30: As soon as we hung up they brought me another meal. I'm going to explode. Brent: Monga monga. Me: I'm tryin'... OOF! Brent: I think you were told to try to eat it all but if you can't they'll accept that. Me: Yeah, I'm contemplating not finishing. Urp. Brent: If it's going to make you ill don't eat it. Steve, don't eat it!! Me: I gave up. I ate more if it than I thought I could. I sent back two or three mouthfuls. When I got to the point that eating more would make me hurl I had to stop. Brent: Good choice. Me: I will (almost) always choose to not hurl. To Brent 20:12: Something I hadn't considered... part of the 8pm snack was cheerios and milk. They gave me 2x as much milk as I would use for the cheerios so I had to drink the rest of it. GAAAAGGGGG!!!

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Went into the ‘meat locker’ today. This is Part 2 of the Dietary Study (EMBRACE) that I'm participating in, and is a 28-hour stint in an air-tight room, which they call their hotel room (but Brent and I dubbed the 'meat locker'). The room is air tight with a big unit in the ceiling that records my oxygen and carbon dioxide for the 28-hours that I’m in here. For more information about the EMBRACE study, you can see my entry for Part 1.

Thoughts shared from the Meat Locker:

To Brent 9:07: The first time they fed me scrambled eggs (during Part 1) they were ok. Today they are like an old tire. Yuk!
To Brent 11:30: Finished the treadmill. Now I just sit and eat and sit and eat and sit and eat.
With Brent Via WhatsApp 16:30: Their menu is way too much food. The lunch was too much - I almost couldn't finish it. Then just a couple hours later they brought a snack. Dinner will be soon, and then another snack at 8:00. Yikes!
With Brent 17:30:
- As soon as we hung up they brought me another meal. I'm going to explode.
- Brent: Monga monga.
- Me: I'm tryin'... OOF!
- Brent: I think you were told to try to eat it all but if you can't they'll accept that.
- Me: Yeah, I'm contemplating not finishing. Urp.
- Brent: If it's going to make you ill don't eat it. Steve, don't eat it!!
- Me: I gave up. I ate more if it than I thought I could. I sent back two or three mouthfuls. When I got to the point that eating more would make me hurl I had to stop.
- Brent: Good choice.
- Me: I will (almost) always choose to not hurl.
To Brent 20:12: Something I hadn't considered... part of the 8pm snack was cheerios and milk. They gave me 2x as much milk as I would use for the cheerios so I had to drink the rest of it. GAAAAGGGGG!!!

Photos

Entering the Meat Locker
Researcher demos the air-tight chambers
These chambers are used for passing food, and other things, in and out of the "Meat Locker" through the 28-hours. Other than this initial demo, I was "locked in" by myself for the 28-hours.
View from the bed
Air-tight passing chambers, Window for them to check on me, Television, Door to the outside world (with a "no touchy" sign on it)
Bed
Treadmill, chair, toilet
I was only allowed to exercise for 30-minutes on the treadmill. Besides that I was mostly sitting or laying around the whole time.
Oh look! Food showed up!
The testing apparatus
This looks like an Air Conditioner, but it's actually the unit that tests the Oxygen that I'm consuming and Carbon Dioxide that I put out
Pee collection
I had to collect my pee so they could measure volume, and... I don't know if they ran any kind of tests on it
Pee collection
I had to put the pee into jugs marked Day 1 and Day 2, and the jugs went into the fridge.
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Schedule Page 2
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