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Today my older children were going out.  My husband gave some money for our little ones (going with) to go out to eat .  My 24 year-old daughter groaned.  I have had to go out to eat too much lately.  My acne really flares up when I do.

I carefully exited the room.  I
gently climbed the stairs.  Lastly, I skipped down the hall...

Five years back I had my last talk with my dentist.  He told me that maybe I had an Autoimmune disease.  Wow!  That sounded big, but what could it mean?  I didn't bother to look it up.  I thought that maybe I was falling apart from the inside out.  It seemed to me that I was dying; why go to a dentist?  I needed to get to the bottom of my health...

Jun 20, 2012


It was to be my 5 year outing.  That time when Mom goes to do her own thing.  I was finally going to find some celiacs with live faces to share stories with.   

I figured out who would take care of the little ones.  I scrambled to make a special homemade...

In my second year of college (at 19 That would be 1982)., I fell ill with mono-nucleosis.  I slept for up to 20 hours a day and was still tired. A month or so later, my blood tested normal, so I returned to college in an attempt to catch up and finish the quarter. Sleep still did not refresh me. I dragged myself to class.  Sometimes I could not cross the...

My family didn't like the idea of yet another diet change!  They didn't see how fatigued or foggy I felt.  I must admit the whole thing seems a bit unbelievable.

After hearing 30 years of my complaints my husband turned a deaf ear to my supposed health problems.  Here I was trying to follow a 100% gluten diet without support.

I heard...

I noticed upon awaking today that my tongue, abdomen and thighs were swollen.  My tongue was also dry.  I dunned my gloves and mask and rewashed the dishes from last night.  I just didn't feel secure that there wasn't still gluten clinging to them.

I am glad that inspite of the swelled up feeling my mind seems clear...

My first blog never quite got in before it was gone.  I worked so long and hard at it that I couldn't start over.  Someday, I would like to put it in. But for now, I am jumping in here.

Four months gluten free:

Things are going a bit better with the family.  They are cooking foods...