xphile1121's Blog

Hello, everyone! This is the first time I've ever posted anything. The following is an exerpt from my final research paper for an English class. Let me know what you think.

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Around the beginning of the summer, I started having intense stomach cramps after almost every meal. I have always had lots of food intolerances (bananas, papaya, poppy seeds, eggs, pineapple, spinach, broccoli, you name it), but I was not eating any of those, and I did not know what was making me so sick. Food that I loved and had a ton of previously was suddenly making me curl up in a ball trying to vomit so I would feel better. I finally found out that I had celiac disease. The trauma that caused it to surface was a miscarriage that drained me both physically and emotionally. I was even more depressed finding out that my fertility rate was being affected by a disease with no cure. I fell off the diet once because I somehow convinced myself that I did not really have the disease, and I impulsively shoved three pieces of bread into my mouth. Though they tasted awesome, it did not make up for the intense pain and sickness I felt later. I finally realized that a gluten-free lifestyle was not such a bad thing. The online forums and Hasselbeck