Kaycee's Blog

It was last day of holiday yesterday. Caught up with my little sister and had a couple of uneasy moments. I mentioned to her I had been feeling better while on holiday, and I mentioned it was probably because my eating had even changed down here, less and less additives etc. and more natural stuff. But she jumps on me discounting what I am trying to say, and says it could be because there was no stress from work, or even that up at home I could've been walking too much, or else it was our water! She is just about as bad as another sister who mentioned the same thing about stress. I am glad they did not mention it could've been the hubby giving stress. Who do they think they are? And I did ask the sister, if it is my water up home, and that was the problem maybe again I could eat gluten. She just gave me a you never know. This makes me angry. I know she said she was trying to help, but I have addressed these matters over the last six months, and we all know it is hard to get the balance right in our lifelong diet against coeliac. I guess I should’ve bit my tongue.

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Still I have only just arrived home tonight, so if she has got it right, I will be experiencing those stomach problems, about this time tomorrow night. What really gets up my nose is that she herself was convinced she had coeliac before I was diagnosed, and her results came back borderline, and she went on the diet, but now has decided it was their water that was causing her problems. I am quite confused by her attitude, I would’ve thought that she would’ve looked into it and realised that it is not something that would go away. It is quite funny, how her results convinced me to go get tested, and the blood test confirmed that I was weakly positive, and I have had two more tests since, and they are still weakly positive. But I know where I had been going wrong, well let me say, I think I know where I went wrong, and I have addressed that by being even more stringent, and getting rid of all additives, flavours, colours, gin, and have been avoiding soy and legumes. This last week I have succeeded on all counts, except a tiny bit of soy, as in chocolate and split peas getting through, and I have felt much better, as in only one day on holiday out of twelve with stomach problems, compared to a cycle of four days with and four days without, on average.

I cannot see how walking is bad for me, it would be worse to stop. And my job is wonderful, and probably not challenging enough. I decided to give up two challenging hours a day at work (before my diagnosis) as those two hours were the ones that at that time created stress for me, as in looking after a group of children in an after school programme. They were not the best behaved children, and I had found it too hard to cope with their behaviour and the discipline. I will never willingly take those two hours back. Now I am back down to 6 hours a day, which is way long enough, in my little library, with my books, and not as much hands on with children, their teachers do the disciplining. But I love the job. But then again, maybe I should give up walking and my job, and be a stay at home wife. Never. If they give me the stress, I am happy to stick with it.

So I am back from holiday, it went so fast, but am so pleased to see the family, and Jim my husband. I have really missed him, he is my rock, even if he gets lost in the middle of Auckland. But we worked together well and I got him out of there.

I am tired, and might do more rambling tomorrow.

Cathy