Pain comes and goes in my life, but when it comes, it sets up camp for a good while. Weeks at a time when my whole life revolves around pain. Sometimes chronic pain has a name, most of the time it doesn’t. Sometimes that is the hardest part of all. Sometimes people think it’s all in my head. Sometimes I wonder if it’s all in my head. Then I feel…
I wrote a passionate post about celiac disease last year that continues to get tons of traffic, comments, and emails. Mostly I think because people are happy not to feel alone. And while I usually stick to the topic of how celiac disease affects me, I want to take a minute and acknowledge the ways it affects my kids. I was thinking about this today as I was lying in…
“Just go gluten-free and you’ll be fine!” That’s what my original GI doctor told me over the phone when she diagnosed me with celiac disease. I found hope in her words, and even celebrated the diagnosis. Finally, I can have my life back! Or so I thought. Now it’s two years later. My blood tests are all normal, my intestines have healed, I should be in that “fine” place…