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Do You Ever Just Wish

sickchick

By sickchick
in Coping with Celiac Disease

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sickchick Community Regular
sickchick
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You could lay down, take a year long nap, and when you wake up it's your time and your body is all healed? lol B)

I'm setting my alarm for Oct 2009. Cool! I just washed my sheets! :lol:

ni ni!

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munkee41182 Explorer
munkee41182
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Good Night!!! 44 days until I get married...I got contaminated Tuesday night, had my first fitting last night with a bloated belly. SO PO'D!!!!! I'd love to sleep for the enxt 43 days......wake up, everything fit, not have a bloated belly and call it a wedding! I gues I need to wash my sheets now too!

ShayFL Enthusiast
ShayFL
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Honestly, I feel every day is a blessing even if I am sick. I almost died at birth, drowned but was revived at 9, almost died at 13 with a ruptured appendix and survived a horrible car accident. Clearly I have a purpose here. :) I hate being sick. But at my lowest and sickest point I asked God to help me be able to mother my daughter (she is now 12) and I feel that getting that privilege is worth staying positive. I dont want to miss a year of teaching her and watching her grow. I also wouldnt want to miss a year of snuggling with my husband every night and playing with my doggies everyday.

sickchick Community Regular
sickchick
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Jami... you must be a little frazzled to say the least :lol:

WOW Shay that is pretty awesome :):):)

lovelove

roxie Contributor
roxie
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Your post reminded me of a dream I had not too long ago. I dreamed that I jumped out of an airplane and started floating through the beautiful star-lit sky. I kept saying, "I'm Free - I'm Free!" I was thinking of NOTHING but floating. I feel like Celiac Disease has consumed my life. I want to be free again!!

Chrissyb Enthusiast
Chrissyb
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Yes there are days I feel like that and today was one of them. I deal with other illnesses also so today I had to get a 4 hour iv infusion for one and the nurse had a hard time finding the vain and since I have to do it again tomorrow she just let the cath in and it is in the top of my hand not a fun place. And to think I get to do this every month oh well such is life and it could be worse. I have many many blessing and I remember to thank God for them each day.

sickchick Community Regular
sickchick
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Oh roxie, I wish I could give you a big hug :D

OWWW Chrissy that sounds very painful... :huh:

hang in there everybody.

we are ALL blessings! xxx :)

I was just incredibly exhausted today and felt like if I laid down to sleep I'd sleep for a year at least ;)

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munkee41182 Explorer
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I'm not too frazzled....I just had to tell the seamstress not to take in the top yet because of my belly. She actually offered to have me come back tomorrow (Saturday) for the fitting, which she usually doesn't do because she works out of her house. So I took her up on the offer and have been eating very plain rice, chicken and plain veggies just to get the belly down (which it has).

Besides, I got everything done about 10 months ago because I know how I am (I'm very uptight) and didn't want to be too frazzled around this time. Just waiting for stupid RSVP's so I can do the place cards and need to find wrapping paper to wrap the bridal party's gifts in. The hardest part now, trying to not get contaminated from now until October 26th (when we come back from our honeymoon). That's what I'm most freeked out about! One week in Antigua...I hold my fiance to throw me on the beach and make sure that I'm stocked with Lara bars and fresh fruit and hopefully I'll come home not ill!

And I agree, we're all blessings. Shay, your picture should be of a cat, you have so many lives!!!!

sickchick Community Regular
sickchick
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Good for you Sweetie! I hope your wedding is truly blissful:):):)

roxie Contributor
roxie
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Collette,

You sound so free spirited and Happy/Positive!!! I envy you!!! Roxie

sickchick Community Regular
sickchick
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wow! that is incredibly sweet, roxie

and another hug for you :)

purple Community Regular
purple
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Honestly, I feel every day is a blessing even if I am sick. I almost died at birth, drowned but was revived at 9, almost died at 13 with a ruptured appendix and survived a horrible car accident. Clearly I have a purpose here. :) I hate being sick. But at my lowest and sickest point I asked God to help me be able to mother my daughter (she is now 12) and I feel that getting that privilege is worth staying positive. I dont want to miss a year of teaching her and watching her grow. I also wouldnt want to miss a year of snuggling with my husband every night and playing with my doggies everyday.

AMEN!

purple Community Regular
purple
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I live in a town, so small there are only 5 or 6 stop signs and no stop lites. I shop in the big city 1 hour away. I am not a celiac. When I go to town I think of all you people that are gluten-free. I am mostly gluten-free. I drive past all the fast food places (none in our town) and other restaurants, thinking about how hard it is for you guys. I shop quickly down some of the store aisles b/c there is nothing there "we" can buy. I am thankful for all I have learned on here from you great teachers! My dd is gluten-free and the other dd (19/17)is trying to be and dairy/egg free. Celiacs are very strong even when the body is weak. If you asked a gluten eating person to just give it up...they couldn't, most anyway. I am so proud of everyone here!

My heart is heavy for all the children. They go through so much. Babies thru college kids. So hard. And moms.

I went shopping last night and chose to eat a banana and some chips instead of fast food. I realize how hard it is except I don't know your physical pain. Not only physical but emotional. The list goes on. Friends, family, relatives, co-workers, waiters, etc., don't get it b/c they don't walk in your shoes.

We are blessed b/c we are eating healthier. Gluten eaters don't know what all their food is doing to their bodies.

Just peek into other peoples carts. Picture the products as boxes and bags of chemicals with the green Mr. Yuck sticker on them. Poison. Toxic. Early death. Time bomb waiting to explode. We are blessed.

Think of starving kids that may only get a bowl of rice for the day. We are blessed. Think of concentration camp prisoners that only got bread and watery parsnip soup. Sickly bodies and in prison, losing all they had and knew. We are blessed.

I and my family are eating more healthy. We are blessed.

I have prayed for many of you. You are blessed.

I want to quote a bible verse.

Revelation 21:4

And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain; for the former things are passed away.

My prayer is that all of you will be included in this group called: "their"

My God's peace with you all. I love you guys!!! :)

Chrissyb Enthusiast
Chrissyb
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Wow thank you purple, you brought tears to my eyes, I love that verse. I truly am blessed and I consider it a blessing to find out that I have celiac disease and I am no longer poisioning my body. Sometimes I miss certian foods but it passes and I am learning how to cook things that are better tasting. (still looking for fluffy yummy pancakes :lol: ).

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