The hardest part was foregoing garlic because it is usually part of my daily diet. Dr. Romano said that I may have a small amount of cooked garlic, but I avoided it altogether for a week before surgery. Cooked tomatoes were allowed, so favorite pasta & tomato sauce dishes stayed on the menu.
To minimize the number vacation days that I'd have to use up, the surgery was scheduled for a week before Christmas. What I didn't think of when I scheduled the surgery was the impact it would have on that festive time of year. When dining out with friends or attending holiday parties, I would gaze longingly at the array of alcoholic beverages and sumptuous ethnic dishes. I look at it this way, some people give things up for Lent, I had to give them up for rhinoplasty.
| Almonds | Apricots | Berries | Cherries | Circumin |
| Cucumber | Currants | Curry | Garlic | Grape Juice |
| Grapes | Jelly Marmalade | Licorice | Nectarines | Oranges |
| Peaches | Pickles | Plums | Preserves | Prunes |
| Raisins | Tomatoes | Tonka-bean tea | Woodruff tea |
| Aloe | Bilberry | Bioflavenoids | Cayenne | Cellasene |
| Cellustop | Celluthin | Chamomile tea | Chondroitin | Echinacea |
| Ephedra | Fish | Fish Oil | GAG's | Garlic |
| Ginger | Ginkgo Biloba | Ginseng | Glucosamine | Licorice Root |
| Ma Huang | Magnesium | Melatonin | Oils (Safflower, Omega-6) | Omega fats |
| Pantethine | Selenium | St. John's Wort | Sweet Clover | Taurine |
| Valerian Root | Vitamin B-6 | Wine | Yohimbe |
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