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fairmaidenwhite
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Ostrich! Thanks for being so kind and demonstrating a welcoming attitude toward me. I just wanted to take a moment and tell you how much I absolutely LOVE your signature! I saved the picture. Hope you don't mind. I like to think that your signature pertains to me. It's given me a sense of humour again and I like the way you think. Have a most blessed night and wonderful day! 
jmw
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cultureslayer
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| Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 12:30 am Post subject: |
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You don't have a car? Me either!
It's still possible. You can order rice paper online or get it at a grocery store with an international section, you only need to buy a rice cooker once a decade, and I have found rice at every grocery store.
I like the asian store for flours, but everything else you can pretty much find at the regular grocery store, although sometimes slightly more pricey. I like mung beans, but really any bean will do. Rice noodles keep forever, so when you find a super walmart that has them or do get to go near an asian store, stock up on them at $1 a lb or so.
You can make cornbread gluten free with cornmeal and cornstarch, guar gum, and the regular ingredients. Just soak half the cornmeal in milk first so that the cornmeal texture won't be as pronounced as it would otherwise with the higher cornmeal content.
Really, the diet in some third world countries is very low gluten (haven't studied it so I won't say gluten free) and more healthy than what most americans eat. Most of us would be better off for eating more rice and beans and less processed food, myself included.
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cultureslayer
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| fairmaidenwhite wrote: |
Please see my earlier post on why it would do me no good to try and "treat" my disease at this point. Jumping to conclusions is a "shame," as well. |
You only die when you give up trying. I could write a book on this, but I have seen death. I have held animals for euthanasia, and you can just tell when they finally release. They give up trying. Usually they know what's happening and it's fairly early, but some are fighters. In medicine, sometimes the sicker patient will recover and the one with the more optimistic diagnosis will die. It's their will to live. I'm sorry to hear that you've lost yours. I have multiple autoimmune issues. It's tempting sometimes, but I just can't yet. I'm a fighter. I can't explain it. I was very upset that I'd lost 90% of my exercise capacity when I developed chronic fatigue, and my doctors told me to shut up and get out of their office because I could still bicycle maybe 10 miles a day, even if it took me several to recover. It took 2 psychologists telling them I was NOT depressed and it was not mental illness and one referring me to a specific doctor almost a year later to even start getting someone to listen.
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fairmaidenwhite
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| Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 1:12 am Post subject: |
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| cultureslayer wrote: | | fairmaidenwhite wrote: |
Please see my earlier post on why it would do me no good to try and "treat" my disease at this point. Jumping to conclusions is a "shame," as well. |
You only die when you give up trying. I could write a book on this, but I have seen death. I have held animals for euthanasia, and you can just tell when they finally release. They give up trying. Usually they know what's happening and it's fairly early, but some are fighters. In medicine, sometimes the sicker patient will recover and the one with the more optimistic diagnosis will die. It's their will to live. I'm sorry to hear that you've lost yours. I have multiple autoimmune issues. It's tempting sometimes, but I just can't yet. I'm a fighter. I can't explain it. I was very upset that I'd lost 90% of my exercise capacity when I developed chronic fatigue, and my doctors told me to shut up and get out of their office because I could still bicycle maybe 10 miles a day, even if it took me several to recover. It took 2 psychologists telling them I was NOT depressed and it was not mental illness and one referring me to a specific doctor almost a year later to even start getting someone to listen. |
Thanks for replying, hon. I know death, as well. I worked in health care and hospice for a decade and took sole care of my grandparents for the last 7 years of their lives. I also worked in a funeral home. What I've found is that sometimes the will to live isn't enough. It's the will of the Father who made you that's the final say. I like to think that even though my "will to live" is gone, that my "will to move on" is stronger than most people's.  After a point, acceptance of your fate is a big thing. I know about the fatigue you have. I also know about a hundred of the selfsame ignorant doctors. Comeuppance happens in many forms and at many different times. The lack of decency and care they have shown us will come back to them in time. And while I wish I could see just a little of their comeuppance, ( ) just knowing that it will happen as a result of Karma (or whatever you want to call it) is satisfying enough. And I am envious of you. Mental illness runs rampant in our family, and there hasn't been a day in my life since I was a little girl that depression hasn't' made its mark on me. You've been blessed. Again, thanks for replying.
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cultureslayer
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| Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 1:39 am Post subject: |
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Oh, it is a depressing situation and I have an aunt in a mental health care center (not quite a hospital), but in this case my problems were not caused by depression. In fact, the problems were causing depression and the doc had it backwards. And treating the problem helped with the depression.
I'm glad you can accept your situation. It's amazing that while euthanasia literally means "good death" we only focus on the chemical aspect as a society, instead of putting more effort into hospice and pain and mental health management for these patients. It's not something I think I am strong enough to deal with. Medical research here, and I just deal with cell lines.
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ostrich
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| Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 12:35 pm Post subject: |
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| fairmaidenwhite wrote: | | Ostrich! Thanks for being so kind and demonstrating a welcoming attitude toward me. I just wanted to take a moment and tell you how much I absolutely LOVE your signature! I saved the picture. Hope you don't mind. I like to think that your signature pertains to me. It's given me a sense of humour again and I like the way you think. Have a most blessed night and wonderful day! |
Hey, anything to help! I didn't make up the sig, it's from those depression calendars that I love so much.
It's important to have a sense of humor when it comes to these things (see Colleen's hillarious Mr. T sig). Otherwise the weight of it all just seems to come crashing down. If it helps, we're on a single income right now. My husband is working on his masters degree, so I pay all the bills. We have to be veeeery careful about how much we spend. So we're trying to think outside the box more as far as GF foods go. I still buy cereal and whatnot, but we're trying to get more veggies, fruits, ground beef, etc.
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Fidissimus
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| Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 3:19 pm Post subject: |
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| ostrich wrote: | | depression calendars |
Depression calendars?
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ostrich
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Yeah, these guys.
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~Flawed Design~
Joined: 05 Feb 2007
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I found an interesting paper on Celiacs and periods. . . . I thought I'd post it here.
http://www.celiac.com/st_prod.html?p_prodid=785&sid=2KAJFV1FE2kL5xg-00105103187.70
Oh and to add to this thread. . . I've had VERY wonky periods for the last 2 years or so, and occasionally before those 2 years I've had times when I wouldn't have my period for 3-4 months followed by a debilitating period from hell.
And I have almost always had VERY low iron and B12.
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