Kaycee's Blog

Well, I brought on the licorice, and surprise, surprise, I did not get sick. It is five days on and I did not get sick. But there have been niggly things, like more wind, grumbly stomach, bloatedness, and today I am not really thinking straight, having one of my bad thinking days.

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But I know I shouldn't have eaten it, and it will just make it harder for me to say no again. I was walking the dog with Jim and asked him if he had some money so I could go to the dairy, not saying what I was going to get. So he gives me the money, and before I am out of that shop, I have a gob full of licorice allsorts. Did he tell me off? No, probably too scared too. We sat and we waited, convinced I would get sick, but no, not even that. Luckily, the licorice allsorts did not even taste like I remembered, they weren't that great. I have learnt something, maybe I am not such a senstive coeliac after all, but other things do bother me, I will just have to find out what. But I must not get away from the fact that my results were positive, so it doesn't really matter what symptoms I have after gluten, I should really keep away from it.

There is nothing ever black and white with coeliac. It makes me wonder if different things have different kinds and levels of gluten. Quite easy to have different levels I must admit, but maybe there are different grades of it. Maybe the longer it has been packaged as in lollies, the less potent it is. Just a thought. I remember once in the beginning I ate a sandwich, with no untoward symptoms, but a week later I had a burger from Burger King, and I was real crook within two hours.

Now to change subjects.

It is quite interesting in that off the coast of NZ, as there are icebergs making their way up the south island. It sounds so surreal and bizzare. There are helicopter crews out there, that are making a mint by flying out tourists to see the bergs. They look fascinating. There have not been icebergs up that far since the 1930's. I will not mention anthing about global warming.

Cathy