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Saw the specialist this morning. Don't know what the hell I was thinking, booking an appointment on a Saturday morning. Getting out of bed this morning was brutal.

While I was there I ended up dropping $200 on four blood tests. Apparently celiac disease (or whatever it's called) can be detected by looking for antibodies in the blood, but OHIP doesn't cover it.

All the Americans on my f-list can point and laugh at me now.

Apparently I have developed Barrett's Esophagus. Annoying because I'll have to get scoped regularily to keep an eye on it, but otherwise not a big deal. I look upon it as a fair trade for all those pap smears I don't have to get any more.

An interesting tidbit of info came up over the holidays, when I was explaining the whole stomach pain/acid reflux thing to my sister my mother piped up and said, "Oh I've had acid reflux since I was pregnant with you. I just take (X drug) for it and I'm fine." Something I hadn't known before. So whatever this is, it's probably hereditary.

I am currently on day 6 of no grains whatsoever. I haven't had a single peep from my stomach. Another useful piece of data.

Re: wild rice pasta

Date: 2007-01-14 02:30 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] the-siobhan.livejournal.com
That sounds marvelous. I love wild rice.

I have some alternative flours in my freezer that I tried to make into things like flatbreads so I could still have wraps. But I'm having trouble getting the hang of this thing where you turn raw ingredients into actual edible food. (I think that people commonly call it "cooking".)

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