Today is my first day as a Blogger!!! The last two years have been filled with "firsts" for me ... FIRST - I found a doctor that listened to my myriad of complaints and didn't immediately say "Well, I really don't see how ALL those symptoms are related"
FIRST - I received a diagnosis that did not require drugs or surgery
FIRST - I joyfully started a new diet
FIRST - I wrote a book - a cookbook CELEBRATE Gluten-free Everyday due early August
Let's go back - ten whole years - that's how long I had been telling doctors that something was wrong before I finally self-diagnosed a rare, very hard to find colon tumor and resigned myself to the fact that I would probably never live long enough for a physician to find it and start treatment. You see where I'm going here - to finally be told that I had Celiac and the "cure" was to give up gluten, well let me tell you that was definitely cause to
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or so I thought. Now granted I had very little idea of what gluten was exactly. Bread? Right? If I gave up bread all would be fine - NOT! Little did I know that this, whatever it was, would show up in virtually everything in my diet from my morning cereal to my makeup to my daughter's Play Doh. My celebration was getting rained on big time! After a couple of what my granny used to call cry pies (whining, groaning, etc.) reality came back and as they say the truth shall set you free - all I had to do was remember how scared, mad and frustrated I was before the diagnosis and it was once again time to
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I started hanging out at my library and favorite book store along with lengthy trips cruising down the Route 66 of cyber space and discovered lots of gluten-free recipes that called for 2 or more times the ingredients, considerable more prep time and the cost was often not justifiable. Pollyanna's smile was slipping. My lifestyle, like most of us, made time a highly prized commodity - this was not good! I love my family and I like to cook but I certainly didn't plan on preparing two different meals every time we sat down to eat. Somehow, some way I would cook one meal and dad gum it we would all enjoy it! Transform Pollyanna into Sherlock Holmes and here we go again - I wasn't dying -
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An adventure to the nth degree with a lifestyle change and a new diet -
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I wasn't dying (worth saying twice) -
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Jump on the band wagon and CELEBRATE CELEBRATE CELEBRATE CELEBRATE CELEBRATE good food, good times, good friends - old and new!
FIRST - I received a diagnosis that did not require drugs or surgery
FIRST - I joyfully started a new diet
FIRST - I wrote a book - a cookbook CELEBRATE Gluten-free Everyday due early August
Let's go back - ten whole years - that's how long I had been telling doctors that something was wrong before I finally self-diagnosed a rare, very hard to find colon tumor and resigned myself to the fact that I would probably never live long enough for a physician to find it and start treatment. You see where I'm going here - to finally be told that I had Celiac and the "cure" was to give up gluten, well let me tell you that was definitely cause to
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or so I thought. Now granted I had very little idea of what gluten was exactly. Bread? Right? If I gave up bread all would be fine - NOT! Little did I know that this, whatever it was, would show up in virtually everything in my diet from my morning cereal to my makeup to my daughter's Play Doh. My celebration was getting rained on big time! After a couple of what my granny used to call cry pies (whining, groaning, etc.) reality came back and as they say the truth shall set you free - all I had to do was remember how scared, mad and frustrated I was before the diagnosis and it was once again time to
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I started hanging out at my library and favorite book store along with lengthy trips cruising down the Route 66 of cyber space and discovered lots of gluten-free recipes that called for 2 or more times the ingredients, considerable more prep time and the cost was often not justifiable. Pollyanna's smile was slipping. My lifestyle, like most of us, made time a highly prized commodity - this was not good! I love my family and I like to cook but I certainly didn't plan on preparing two different meals every time we sat down to eat. Somehow, some way I would cook one meal and dad gum it we would all enjoy it! Transform Pollyanna into Sherlock Holmes and here we go again - I wasn't dying -
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An adventure to the nth degree with a lifestyle change and a new diet -
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I wasn't dying (worth saying twice) -
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Jump on the band wagon and CELEBRATE CELEBRATE CELEBRATE CELEBRATE CELEBRATE good food, good times, good friends - old and new!
Excited about this blog!!!!
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