Kaycee's Blog

25 July 2006

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Well the Irish Coffee was a hit with my stomach, and not a problem. So it was a well chosen anniversary present for us both.

This is the continued journey to being gluten free. Excerpts from my diary, and food journal, it is probably just as boring as the previous entry, but it is helping me a lot with where and how far I have gone in six month. I am so blown away, I is a new person.

1 January 2006 “One week out from Xmas. Back on track. Feeling better.”

Still on my diet, even thought I have had a couple of weeks off it. Starting to feel a lot better. No eating to excess

4 January. “Have to do something with diet. It is making me sick!”

Jim went back to work. I will miss him. I missed him!

Bad day, ate a bit. By the time I walked the dog later, my stomach decided hey I want to play up. Needless to say, I spent a bit of time in the loo and have absolutely not appetite for tea. It is getting to bug me, I think it could be bread. But what should I do, stew and wonder or go to Dr’s and try to find out why?

5 January. My sister Rosemary rang up to say that she will be over to see mum and dad from the 30th and wondered if I could come down to Waimate, to see them all. Would love to.

Still thinking about my diet and allergy. Should go to the doctor find out once and for all what causes it. Walked the dog, did my steps. Doing good. Wish I could say the same about the diet.

6 January

Walked the dog. Tried to do a sudoku but it was too hard and too challenging. It was an easy one. Had to give up on it.

Still trying to sort out my food problems. Think it is the gluten thing, but there are so many foods with gluten. In the frozen chips, baked beans, liquorice all sorts.

I’m in the middle of drinking a bottle of wine, cause I am feeling a little down. Have to go see the Dr and find out what really is the problem.

Tried to avoid gluten, but notice it was in the canned tuna!

7 January. There was gluten in the vegemite.

Rang Liz and mum. All are fine in Waimate. Have done nothing to sort out going to Waimate. Will tomorrow.

8 January. Still trying hard to avoid gluten. So grocery shopping took a bit longer.

Checked out airfares to Waimate. Quite expensive. Maybe I won’t go. Too many other things that need to be seen to. I am so obsessing over gluten. Poor Jim he doesn’t need it.

9 January 2006

It was hard to get up this morning to get Jim off to work. Walked Poppy, cleaned out the pantry and blobbed. Feel a bit washed out. Still obsessing.

Feel my get up and go has gone!! Is it withdrawal from gluten? Still not craving for bread. It has only been a total of one day without gluten. So begins my journey.

Feels like withdrawals.

10 January 2006. Getting right into my sudoku. Ryan’s way of solving is the best way. No mess, but this is only working on the easy puzzles! Harder ones might need a different strategy.

Still not right. Think I feel better, but still rather loose.

11 January 2006. Good day diet wise, until I had chips tonight, that I knew had a bit of flour in them but thought they would be okay. But now a couple of hours later feeling bloated with wind and a churning stomach. Could it have been the flour, we will see.

13 Jan

Still avoiding gluten.

14 January

Had Chinese for tea. My ear was pretty sore when I sneezed. Might be time to get it checked as it has been a bit sore for a week. Getting worse.

15 January

Went to Dargaville so that Jim could get some soil samples for his rye and clover fields. So we walked through them, punching little holes in the ground and collecting smaples. (I noted that a couple days later I had little sores on my legs, probably where the grass had got me. These took a good week to disappear. Could’ve be reacting to the rye?)

Been feeling a bit out of sorts. My ear still a bit sore, but feels a bit better now. No need for Panadol

16 January

Busy day felt a bit sick. Ear not so bad. Think I have hayfever so take a tablet, sure I feel better.

18 January

Took my son Bradley to get his Big Day Out ticket. What are we doing, I feel he is old enough. Ryan the older son, is doing more worrying than me. Big Day Out in Auckland on Bradley’s own, so that he can see White Stripes etc etc.

Ear is much better.

Getting into my puzzles. Sudoku and another one called Kakuro or something. That one I really have to get into the mindset. Ask myself is this not too much for me, as I could be getting beyond it.

Reading my book “Summer Garden”

20 January

Well we left for Auckland at 7.30am. Got Bradley to Big Day Out and now in Albert Park with Jim drinking a Mountain Dew. It is hot.

We then went to the museum. But I think I pushed Jim too hard, and by the time we left the museum he was not feeling well. Brad had a great day. We all had a long day. We were boxed in by other cars, so never left Auckland till about midnight and it was a long slow drive back. Got to bed about 2.45am. We will be stuffed.

21 January

Got up early, told Jim to stay in bed while I walked Poppy. Felt better after a walk. Computer time and Jim pretty much stayed in bed all day. I did some reading, awesome book.

Bradley is looking a bit red

Jim is feeling better. Could it be a bit of heat exhaustion on Friday in Auckland?

22 Jan

Jim had an easy day. He got waited on hand and foot.

Was not really in mood for getting groceries. Ryan is now worried that he has a gluten intolerance as well, so he is going gluten free.

Good week. Quite possibly no gluten. Feeling lots better. Nearly constipated which would make a change, or should I say I am “nearly regular.”

23 Jan

Jim back to work. He’s made an appointment with Doctor. He came back happy after having an ecg. All he needs is to get good blood results. Dr thinks it probably was the heat.

So I walked the dog twice. Ordered in tea. Now feeling sick. Been to the loo twice. It all went through me. Could be volume, or something with gluten or just stress over the last few days. But my stomach felt all bloated straight after tea.

24 Jan I had to finish of the Nasi goreng from last night, and now I do feel a bit yuck, bloated. So maybe it is the nasi. Tell myself I must go to the dr, but I am just a chicken.

26 January

My sore ear, or whatever, could be jaw, kept me awake a bit last night. So I made an appointment for dr, but can’t get into see him until Next Tuesday. But if it gets worse, I will go to White cross. Quite a bit miserable, and the bossman (Jim), seems to tell me that I am having too much Panadol. Like hell I am. Have only had 6 today. But I need them.

27 Jan

Had my bread, but so far nothing untoward. Now what does that tell me?

28 Jan

Still nothing untoward with the bread. A bit of a bummer, so what is it then?

29 Jan

Bad night, sore ear. Did not much today. Fed up with this sore ear thing. Fed up with everything.

31 Jan

Went to the Dr’s. He thinks it is probably my jaw giving me hell, not my ear. Being checked for gluten intolerance, so gave blood. (Wasn’t I brave, I did it. Doctor listened and wanted to know how I was feeling being gluten free. Good I told him. He said, that is probably the answer, and to keep off gluten. He listened to me, not like another doctor who thought years ago, the pain in my stomach was all in my head, but it was a cyst on an ovary, a big one too, the size of a grapefruit! How could he have missed that?) Then the doctor had to tell me the diet is worse than being diabetic.

Jim got hot and stressed. Too hot today anyway.