I’ve been fighting a strange stomach ailment since Friday. Jon and I had gone out to lunch at Fazoli’s and something in my meatball sub did not do great things to my stomach. I’m not sure if it was food poisoning (I wasn’t vomiting) or if it was the cheese on it (as I’m lactose intolerant) but something really did something to me where I was having stomach pain and was having problems eating. Other than the Wendy’s hamburger and fries I had last night (since I was starving and really craving meat because it’s that time of the month), I’ve been living on ginger ale and crackers. I’m hoping this isn’t something more serious and that I can get my system back to normal soon. I’m having dinner with my cousin tonight and we have a BBQ tomorrow, and it’s gonna look strange if I’m barely eating. It might also be stress as in the next two weeks, I’m starting a new job, finding out where we’ll be going, and having to start planning out the move.
I start my new job in a week. I’m still in shock that I actually have the job because I basically gave up in mid-July, figuring that I would just have to do all the prep stuff to be a substitute teacher. I need to learn Access this week and my plan is to put the stuff for the dinner/auction into Access to do things like keep track of donations and keep track of hours.
In the midst of all of this, Jon and I are trying to make the time between now and September 18th go faster. We’d really like to know where we’re going to be next year and also how soon Jon has to meet with whatever bishop drafts him because that will probably determine when we will be moving. As much as I trust that the Lord will send us someplace wonderful, I’d kind of like to know so I can start applying for jobs, seeing what the substitute teaching requirements are, seeing what the community is like where we might be living… We’ve already drafted a list of what needs to be done before we move. Some of it is simple like sending address change cards to our credit cards and all. Some of it is more complicated like getting utilities going at our new place. We also don’t know if we’ll have a parsonage or if we’ll merely have a housing allowance and have to go find somewhere to live. *sigh* Lord, work in my Jness because I really am wanting to know some details with the Plan here…
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I have IBS pretty bad, and Fazoli’s is always guaranteed to make me sick. I think they quadruple the normal amount of garlic in all their recipes.
They think I might have Crohn’s (and have been thinking this for about 2 years now) and for me, it’s something else in the food besides the garlic that makes me sick. Maybe the butter/cheese combination????
I had a friend in Illinois that had some type of ailment like Chron’s, except hers was an absolutely debilitating case. They weren’t sure that’s what it was because she couldn’t control it with diet or medication. She would be bedridden in a fetal position, in tears and barely breathing, for a week after an average outbreak.
She had a terrible time with any type of gluten, flour, wheat, grain, etc. She couldn’t eat any of those things at all.
Could it have been the pasta itself? Do certain types of bread bother you?
i don’t have a problem with gluten but my mother-in-law sent me something from the New Yorker talking about a tendency for people of Irish descent to have Celiac Disease, which *is* a sensitivity to gluten, wheat, grain etc.