I've been gluten- and casein- free for over a year, soy-free for almost a year, and none of my symptoms have gone away. My joints still ache, I'm still tired all the time.
Thankfully, I have an absolutely awesome mom and dad who keep trying to figure out what's wrong ...and I think we may have hit something this time. The Diet Cure by Julia Ross -filled with little questionnaires that direct you towards what chemical imbalance your body may have -has definitely helped me find out what's wrong (
The day before Valentine's Day, we were having potatoes, asparagus, salad, and fish. I skipped the potatoes and had the rest. Turns out the fish had butter on it.
I was never terrible allergic/sensitive to dairy. It was a tiny thing resulting from gluten intolerance that had gone unnoticed. So I went back on. And it doesn't seem to be bothering me, eight days from then. So I will happily slip back onto some chocolates, cocoa, butter, sour cream, cream cheese, and other things I might have misse
Well, in less than a week I'll be going on my second gluten free vacation.
My first one was to a camp. I had only been gluten free for about a month, two months then. I brought along a good deal of Ziploc bags filled with stuff such as beef stew, chicken, rice, and peppers, and a variety of breakfast foods. The camp nurse was wheat free, so she knew something of what I could and could not have. So that week I lived almost purely on beef stew and chicken and rice ...and some desserts I had broug
Yesterday night was the first time I'd ever eaten out since being diagnosed. (I'm not counting flavored ices at stands and stuff like that.)
We (my dad and I) had a GREAT time at the Outback. The food was absolutely delicious, cooked to perfection (their wasabi -soy free - was GREAT!), but that's not what we paid for.
The customer service was super, and a waiter that helped us figure out exactly what I could and couldn't have on the menu. He even went into the kitchen to make sure that they di
For those of you who don't know, I'm a fantasy fiction author. I love to write. I can't communicate all that well by talking, but writing suits me perfectly. Poems, songs, books, even papers -you name it. I love to write.
Well, with a combination of starting a story around Feb/March, writing (this is all by hand) 181 pages in April, and writing 150 pages last month and several misc. pages in between, I've finished my first book. Funny. It's also the last book in the series. It's not getting pub
...God, who sent His Son to save us from our sins, rescuing us from an eternity of torture in the Lake of Fire and instead allowing us to share His home in heaven!
...God's Word, to keep us in line with Him until Jesus returns!
...my parents, constantly guiding me and teaching me (not always in ways I like -at those times I should be more thankful for them) through any problems I may have.
...my brothers and sisters, with my almost-double-digit number of siblings. There's always som
Well, I'm a new member who joined yesterday...I'm gluten- and casein-sensitive. I don't know what the difference is between being "sensitive" and "intolerant". I was diagnosed a few months ago, and I'm still not sure about everything I can eat. I'm looking for a friend maybe gluten-sensitive, and around my age (13) who is a Christian.
This has been a long weekend, with Friday first processing chickens then going over to a friend's house for worship and fellowship and staying up until, what was it, eleven-thirty? Somewhere around there. Anyway, on Saturday we had two families over for dinner and they stayed until around nine-thirty, and I got to bed around ten-thirty after watching some of The Curse of the Black Pearl. Then yesterday we had another family over...they stayed until about nine-forty-five, and then we watched some
I feel a cold coming on ...and I've been having some trouble with some things that seem like they would spout from cross-contamination, but I don't know how...anyway, I'm still very tired, and even more so since Wednesday morning I woke up at 4:30 A.M. and couldn't go back to sleep after I heard that Obama had been elected. It strikes me funny the irony of it all -something I won't say in case it might offend Obama supporters
I'm less sick with the cold (just a few sniffles here and there) but I think something went wrong last night and I think I ate something I wasn't supposed to -I have no clue at all what it would be. (I had chicken, quinoa with red peppers and peas, and broccoli, with gluten-free cookies for dessert.) I woke up twice last night to use the bathroom and had to do so again about twice earlier this morning. Meanwhile my stomach had felt really weird and I had bad cramps. Now I feel fine. I'm think
We expected a baby to arrive around New Year's. With eight girls already far outnumbering the two boys in the family (not including parents), we were thinking it was going to be a baby girl.
Exactly a week ago, my little brother popped out. The delivery was quick and easy, which Mom (and everyone else) was very thankful for ...but the little boy, who is now in possession of several nicknames, such as 'Bongo' and 'Pooky', had to be transferred to another hospital because he was having a great de
We had two people over for the actual Thanksgiving meal...of which some parts had been tailored to suit my diet. The gravy was made with potato starch and coconut milk -providing a stark contrast to wheat flour and regular milk. The stuffing (which has so many fans that it couldn't be cut out) couldn't be cooked inside the turkey, like a lot of people like it. I had to have my own little bowls of mashed potatoes and broccoli because there was butter and/or milk in the bigger dishes. There was cr
...two things occurred.
One was that I went to a concert and was away from home from noon until 0030 -or, as some people prefer to call it, midnight thirty. It was a Winter Jam, the second concert of the tour. Artists like Newsong, Newsboys, and Third Day (which in my opinion was the best of all), along with many others, were playing from 6 o'clock until past 10:20, when our group decided to skip the rush and leave early.
The other things was ...while I was on my way to be picked up to g
I'm not sure how this happened...
But all of you who are the 'only one's in your family who are gluten free can relate.
I think it was the chicken dish my Mom made yesterday. There were plenty of leftovers (enough to fill a large sour cream container), and I'm think that some gluten stuffed-stuffing got mixed in. Today was leftovers (or srevotfel, shre-vot-full) day, and the only thing I could have was -you guessed it -the chicken dish. It was 'safe' originally, but the thing that clued
Here comes my regular schedule in the morning: get up, check email and whatever websites I'm a member of, take care of chickens, eat breakfast, and go back to bed to read and listen to music before having to go do dishes.
Late nights tend to upset the balance. I wake up late/r, 6:45 -7:00 a.m., have breakfast and then take care of the chickens, doing the dishes immediately afterwards so I won't be late to start my schoolwork.
Then Sundays -which I've grown used to since they're regular
1. Flexibility! We can make room for a whole lot of things (like dentist appointments and spontaneous trips to the museum) and are not restricted by a public school schedule.
2. Lax schedule! (Sort of. ) No strict schedule (really). "Get this done by the time I get home." "Have this finished by next Friday." Our schedule: start at nine (a.m.), do schoolwork, lunch, schoolwork, snack from three to four (while doing schoolwork), schoolwork to five, then chores -which should be done in half
How many of you out there like writing fantasy? I love it, and I do pretty well at it -especially when I can focus on one of my many stories. The accountability I have in our writing group is also great. Plus, it helps me get more done on two stories at once. I fill up my quota on one story for the writing group, and then I work as much as I want to on another series that I'm creating.
You might ask how long I've been writing. That's actually a somewhat tricky question. I've always been doin
...that story faded off. Then we moved from PA to NC. Pennsylvania to North Carolina. New friends, house, church. Then we got a writing club started. Enter fantasy.
I've actually sort of been doing "fantasy" my whole life, basically in a world somehow remarkably like Earth but also my own (so I could mess around with it). Now I actually start creating things, my whole new world, names, animals, places, geography. So far I've been calling it Chicati.
I've been working on that story for my
Today I woke up as usual. I really wasn't all that productive today. In school, that is. Partly because I didn't have that much schoolwork to do. Partly because we had visitors. Partly because I was completely bored with my work and was busy with my story. (I got a chapter done in Sapphire Necklace.) Partly because I was tired. A lot of the time I was staring into nowhere -more precisely, my own world. One of them. AlneaOmeca.
I'm a pretty weird person. Don't worry about using the term on m
Christmas. I'm thinking about Christmas because I went Christmas shopping today. It was crazy. People were rushing about everywhere, the lines at the checkouts were insanely long, everyone were buying so much stuff. Why?
I admit, I was buying a bunch of stuff as well. But I have an excuse. I have presents for everybody in my family every Christmas. (Eleven people.) As well as some of my friends. And I was buying the cheapest things I could find.
Why does everybody think that they need so
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Books by Ted Dekker. Boy, is he a great author! He writes books that are great for the action and for the meaning -the first I have ever been able to find! I stayed up late last night reading one of his books. Oh, wow, it was gripping and I couldn't put it down even though several times I wanted to and knew that I should. I finished it. These are books that I recommend to anybody over age fourteen. Yes, I'm thirteen, but I've
I have woken up with a headache -not a really bad one, but one that stays with you as a dull ache throughout the day. Add to that the fact that I stayed up late three nights in a row so I'm tired as well with a fatigue that sometimes defeats my will.
We decorated our four-foot, fake tree last night. Dad is allergic to tree pollen -as am I. Allergies run in the family. The only one without allergies in the first four kids has diabetes. The rest of us share an allergy to cats and asthma progre
