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By confused
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confused
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Last night we had a tball game at 6 and i hadnt even thought about dinner. So after the game hubby is like lets have hamburger and fries, so I was like Ok, but make sure you get ore ida fries. He is like dont worry i know what to get. Well he grabbed the zesty fries. So i started to eat and ate like 7 fries and asked him well what kind did you get and he is like zesty but they look fine. Well about an hour later I was like my stomach hurts, so of course i go to the ore ida list and sure enough the fries are not on the gluten free list. I slept with the heating pad on all last night in 90 degree weather, not fun. I woke up so tired and kinda out of it. I have to go help out for 3 hours this morning for an rockies baseball challenge, I so dont know what I am going to do. My stomach is cramping so bad while i sit here and type this out. I was feeling so good and now i have to suffer for days cause of carelessness. Last ngiht i kept telling hubby to feel my stomach cause it was so hard, he felt so bad. He said from now on we make our own fries, but that doesnt make me feel better now lol

paula

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I'm so sorry Paula. Of course, he meant well. My husband made a few silly mistakes like that too in the beginning. He even switched up my children's plates one time. I cried when I saw my son eating the sandwhich and said "what did you do!!!!" And he felt like dirt. And there was little we could do except wait through it.

I hope you feel better soon.

Gina

confused Community Regular
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Thanks gina,. well i made it threw the 2 hours at the rockies challenge, but now i am home and in complete pain. I even caught myself being cranky at the baseball thing. I feel so bad when i get like this and the kids just look at me like im some freak. I think i can handle the digestive problems alot better then i can the neurological affects.

paula

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I hear ya'. I feel awful afterwards (from the snapping at my own kids). But it just feels so out of control at the time.

I don't know how to soothe the stomachache. I just double up and wait it out. I hear some folks like pudding and other soothing treats.

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Sorry about the glutening, Paula. Be sure to read EVERY label, EVERY time! Sometimes a product will be gluten-free, then they'll change the recipe. :) In this case, it wasn't gluten-free to begin with ... I'm sure hubby will be reading from now on, too.

confused Community Regular
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Sorry about the glutening, Paula. Be sure to read EVERY label, EVERY time! Sometimes a product will be gluten-free, then they'll change the recipe. :) In this case, it wasn't gluten-free to begin with ... I'm sure hubby will be reading from now on, too.

I mostly do carla, but last night he came in and cooked dinner while i had an drink and smoked an cigarette and played with the kids, i didnt even think to look at what he bought, i trusted him lol. And i was so tired. But that will be the last time i trust him lol. But he feels really bad and he sees how it has affected me today and i know he dont want me going back to his sick wife that hardly ever left her house lol.

paula

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and people think we're crazy when we want to read every label, every time. :P

I'm sorry you got so sick. but until you are *CONFIDENT* that he's trained (and being sorry is NOT the same as being trained), you're going to have to read up on the labels after him, BEFORE eating the food.

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