Here are a couple of articles that I found when doing some research on wheat allergies, gluten sensitivity and celiac disease.
http://gluten.lovetoknow.com/Symptoms_of_Wheat_Intolerance
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704893604576200393522456636.html
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/7785150/my_doctors_got_it_wrong_wheat_intolerance.html?cat=5
http://www.naturalnews.com/032237_gluten_side_effects.html
Life's Path
Monday, June 27, 2011
Sunday, June 26, 2011
October 2010
Once again my favorite time of year! I have been feeling sooooooo good! I love it. Now comes the real test. The 3 weeks of wheat free is over and now I get to introduce wheat back into my system to see how I react.
The 5th is my 35th birthday, and I feel like I am on top of the world! Because I have had such a change in my health, I feel I need to do something remarkable for this birthday. So I decide to go and get my nose pierced. I have wanted to do it for some time, and was going to wait until my 40th to do it, but this is the year, I know that now is the time. I meet up with my hairdresser, who is also a friend and we go to 'Strange City' on Whyte Ave to get pierced. I have a really cool piercist and she is so gentle and kind. I get pierced and I am so happy with it. I think that Marianne was freaking out in the room as she could see what was going on...I just felt a little pinch and that was it. Little did I know they have to put this big spike through your nose until they put the piercing in...what you don't know, doesn't hurt you. For some reason, doing this has brought even more confidence in me. My life is changing and for the better. I spend the rest of the day getting my hair done, Glenn takes me out for supper and then we have some of my delicious red velvet cake...which I am so happy to have because I LOVE red velvet cake! Thank goodness I can re-introduce wheat back into my system this week! Birthday 35 was a memorable one.
A couple of days later, I go out for lunch with my Nanny. She usually takes me out for lunch on my birthday (when I am working, I NEVER work on my birthday...nobody should work on their birthday!) but this year she couldn't do it the day of so we went a couple of days later. We do our usual, fish and chips....something we both love and I usually only do with her. Again, I am thankful to be able to partake as the fish is battered but hey, I am back on wheat!
October 8th, I am booked for a Gastroscopy once again. I know that it will reveal nothing, especially since my recent turn around with my health. Before the appointment, my very good friend Lisa is flying through and has a stop over in Edmonton for a couple of hours. We meet for lunch...okay, Glenn and her meet for lunch and I am there for the visit as I can't eat before the procedure. It is so good to see my friend once again! After our short but great visit, we are off to the hospital for the gastroscopy. It goes very smoothly and I sleep off the medication for the rest of the day.
Now it is the long weekend with Thanksgiving. Oh how I am so looking forward to turkey, and gravy, and dressing and buns, pumpkin pie and...you get it. This could be my last "traditional" meal like this so I am going to enjoy it to the fullest. We have a wonderful dinner with family up at my brother and sister-in-laws place. It is like heaven in my mouth, all the wonderful dishes that have been made. But I know that this won't be the norm for me anymore.
You see, ever since I have introduced the wheat back into my system...I am going downhill again. It is a slow decline, but it is happening. The energy is leaving me. I am feeling gross again. I am back in the bathroom again. All the old symptoms are coming back. I know what my life is going to look like in the future...it is going to be one without wheat. Yup, I am allergic to wheat. Body has confirmed it 100%.
This diagnosis kind of baffles people. When you think of allergies, they can vary. Some just kind of get you down (runny nose, stuffed up, itchy eyes etc.), some are life threatening, like peanuts and the such. Mine was going to kill me. It wasn't going to happen real quick, like needing an epi-pen to inject adrenaline in me to bring me back. But I was being poisoned every day. That is what was happening. Because wheat is in SO many things, not just baking and such, I was constantly bombarding my system and I was slowly poisoning myself. Eventually, in probably 20 years or less, I could have faced death because of the wheat. I know it sounds crazy, but that is what it was doing to my system.
I have great discussions with my naturopath about this. I do much research and realize how lucky I am that we have figured this out. I am understanding more and more of the frustrating battle I went through with the medical community and their search to find out what was wrong with me. It basically came down to an allergy. And it has changed my life forever.
I end off the month by going on a quick extended weekend road trip with a good friend Rae Ann to Saskatchewan to visit friends. It was a wonderful time to go back and meet up with some friends that I haven't seen in years. Rae Ann's family is like family to me and I so enjoyed going back to her family farm for a visit. I even made cabbage rolls for the first time and had a blast doing it! It was a wonderful way to end off such and amazing month!
The 5th is my 35th birthday, and I feel like I am on top of the world! Because I have had such a change in my health, I feel I need to do something remarkable for this birthday. So I decide to go and get my nose pierced. I have wanted to do it for some time, and was going to wait until my 40th to do it, but this is the year, I know that now is the time. I meet up with my hairdresser, who is also a friend and we go to 'Strange City' on Whyte Ave to get pierced. I have a really cool piercist and she is so gentle and kind. I get pierced and I am so happy with it. I think that Marianne was freaking out in the room as she could see what was going on...I just felt a little pinch and that was it. Little did I know they have to put this big spike through your nose until they put the piercing in...what you don't know, doesn't hurt you. For some reason, doing this has brought even more confidence in me. My life is changing and for the better. I spend the rest of the day getting my hair done, Glenn takes me out for supper and then we have some of my delicious red velvet cake...which I am so happy to have because I LOVE red velvet cake! Thank goodness I can re-introduce wheat back into my system this week! Birthday 35 was a memorable one.
A couple of days later, I go out for lunch with my Nanny. She usually takes me out for lunch on my birthday (when I am working, I NEVER work on my birthday...nobody should work on their birthday!) but this year she couldn't do it the day of so we went a couple of days later. We do our usual, fish and chips....something we both love and I usually only do with her. Again, I am thankful to be able to partake as the fish is battered but hey, I am back on wheat!
October 8th, I am booked for a Gastroscopy once again. I know that it will reveal nothing, especially since my recent turn around with my health. Before the appointment, my very good friend Lisa is flying through and has a stop over in Edmonton for a couple of hours. We meet for lunch...okay, Glenn and her meet for lunch and I am there for the visit as I can't eat before the procedure. It is so good to see my friend once again! After our short but great visit, we are off to the hospital for the gastroscopy. It goes very smoothly and I sleep off the medication for the rest of the day.
Now it is the long weekend with Thanksgiving. Oh how I am so looking forward to turkey, and gravy, and dressing and buns, pumpkin pie and...you get it. This could be my last "traditional" meal like this so I am going to enjoy it to the fullest. We have a wonderful dinner with family up at my brother and sister-in-laws place. It is like heaven in my mouth, all the wonderful dishes that have been made. But I know that this won't be the norm for me anymore.
You see, ever since I have introduced the wheat back into my system...I am going downhill again. It is a slow decline, but it is happening. The energy is leaving me. I am feeling gross again. I am back in the bathroom again. All the old symptoms are coming back. I know what my life is going to look like in the future...it is going to be one without wheat. Yup, I am allergic to wheat. Body has confirmed it 100%.
This diagnosis kind of baffles people. When you think of allergies, they can vary. Some just kind of get you down (runny nose, stuffed up, itchy eyes etc.), some are life threatening, like peanuts and the such. Mine was going to kill me. It wasn't going to happen real quick, like needing an epi-pen to inject adrenaline in me to bring me back. But I was being poisoned every day. That is what was happening. Because wheat is in SO many things, not just baking and such, I was constantly bombarding my system and I was slowly poisoning myself. Eventually, in probably 20 years or less, I could have faced death because of the wheat. I know it sounds crazy, but that is what it was doing to my system.
I have great discussions with my naturopath about this. I do much research and realize how lucky I am that we have figured this out. I am understanding more and more of the frustrating battle I went through with the medical community and their search to find out what was wrong with me. It basically came down to an allergy. And it has changed my life forever.
I end off the month by going on a quick extended weekend road trip with a good friend Rae Ann to Saskatchewan to visit friends. It was a wonderful time to go back and meet up with some friends that I haven't seen in years. Rae Ann's family is like family to me and I so enjoyed going back to her family farm for a visit. I even made cabbage rolls for the first time and had a blast doing it! It was a wonderful way to end off such and amazing month!
Thursday, June 9, 2011
September 2010 - An Answer???
My favorite time of year again! The September long weekend, we headed up north to spend the weekend with my aunt and uncle and Baba and grandad in Slave Lake. We had a wonderful weekend of visiting and relaxing. One last weekend to fully relax and be together before the craziness of football season kicks into gear.
On September 9, I have a follow-up appointment with Dr. Ramesh (the lung specialist) to go over my results of the tests he has sent me for. There was nothing significant but one of the blood tests he tells me he checked for some allergies. He very casually mentions that I am allergic to wheat and grass. This sets off an alarm in my head. He doesn't give me much more than that for information and wishes me well. I go home and immediately make an appointment with my naturopath to discuss these findings with her. I can see her the next day.
September 10, I head to my naturopath appointment and take the results with me to show her. We go over various aspects of my health and then we talk about the wheat allergy. She suggests that I go off of anything that has wheat in it (and wheat is in everything!) for 3 weeks, see how I do, and then slowly introduce it back into my system after the 3 weeks to see how I do. My body will be the guide as to how this allergy affects me. I decide to wait until the Monday to start the no wheat thing as it is Glenn's birthday on the weekend and we have cake and such so it won't hurt me to wait a couple of more days before taking the wheat out of my system.
Monday, September 13, my life changed. From the moment that I took the wheat out of my system, my body did a 180. I was no longer searching for energy. I started pulling out the stove and cleaning behind and underneath it...who does that in their right mind!!??!! But that is what I did...I had so much energy that I had to find things to do! Might as well clean!
Virtually over the weeks, my symptoms disappeared. I was sleeping better, I had energy, I was no longer spending time on the toilet, I didn't have the headaches, you name it, they left. It was a wonderful 3 weeks. The real test would come with my birthday in early October and Thanksgiving when I introduce wheat back into my system. That will be the true marker for what is going on. Then I will be fully convinced. But for now, I am enjoying having my life back! The world suddenly has color again. I feel alive!
On September 9, I have a follow-up appointment with Dr. Ramesh (the lung specialist) to go over my results of the tests he has sent me for. There was nothing significant but one of the blood tests he tells me he checked for some allergies. He very casually mentions that I am allergic to wheat and grass. This sets off an alarm in my head. He doesn't give me much more than that for information and wishes me well. I go home and immediately make an appointment with my naturopath to discuss these findings with her. I can see her the next day.
September 10, I head to my naturopath appointment and take the results with me to show her. We go over various aspects of my health and then we talk about the wheat allergy. She suggests that I go off of anything that has wheat in it (and wheat is in everything!) for 3 weeks, see how I do, and then slowly introduce it back into my system after the 3 weeks to see how I do. My body will be the guide as to how this allergy affects me. I decide to wait until the Monday to start the no wheat thing as it is Glenn's birthday on the weekend and we have cake and such so it won't hurt me to wait a couple of more days before taking the wheat out of my system.
Monday, September 13, my life changed. From the moment that I took the wheat out of my system, my body did a 180. I was no longer searching for energy. I started pulling out the stove and cleaning behind and underneath it...who does that in their right mind!!??!! But that is what I did...I had so much energy that I had to find things to do! Might as well clean!
Virtually over the weeks, my symptoms disappeared. I was sleeping better, I had energy, I was no longer spending time on the toilet, I didn't have the headaches, you name it, they left. It was a wonderful 3 weeks. The real test would come with my birthday in early October and Thanksgiving when I introduce wheat back into my system. That will be the true marker for what is going on. Then I will be fully convinced. But for now, I am enjoying having my life back! The world suddenly has color again. I feel alive!
Saturday, May 14, 2011
August 2010
Not much to report on this month with my health. Things are pretty much the same and I am awaiting the results of the tests that I had done last month, which I won't know until September.
I did have my Broncoscopy on August 13th. This is the test where the doctor goes down my throat and into my lungs to have a look around. The procedure goes very smoothly and I would never even know that he had been down there looking around. It does seem kind of weird that they were in my lungs taking a look. I can't think about things like that for too long or I just might start to freak out!
I just take this month one day at a time and see how I do. I am looking forward to September, yet I still don't want to get my hopes up. I have had them up many times before, only to be crushed. So I just try to wait patiently...and I wait...
I did have my Broncoscopy on August 13th. This is the test where the doctor goes down my throat and into my lungs to have a look around. The procedure goes very smoothly and I would never even know that he had been down there looking around. It does seem kind of weird that they were in my lungs taking a look. I can't think about things like that for too long or I just might start to freak out!
I just take this month one day at a time and see how I do. I am looking forward to September, yet I still don't want to get my hopes up. I have had them up many times before, only to be crushed. So I just try to wait patiently...and I wait...
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
July 2010
Well, Dr. Ramesh was true to his word of sending me for more testing. The first one is a TB test...I am a little frustrated by this one as I know for sure that I don't have TB but I guess they have to rule absolutely everything out. So away I go to get a needle stuck under my arm (July 12th) to see if I have TB. I will have to return in two days to see if the skin reacts to the needle and see if I have TB. A waste of two mornings but I do it...and it is confirmed that I do NOT have TB. Got that one over with.
July 13th I go for yet another CT Scan of my lungs to see if the spots are still there or if there has been any change. July 20th I go for a lung test to see if my lung capacity and all of that is good.
Not much else going on. Just 4 days of running around to appointments. I am slowly feeling a little better...we think that it must be the diet change. I still don't have the energy to workout or do that but everyday energy is improving. Nap times are diminishing slowly...even a half hour less is a victory! I will keep doing what I am doing until all this round of testing is done and we get the results back. Who knows what the results will be at this point. We keep waiting....
July 13th I go for yet another CT Scan of my lungs to see if the spots are still there or if there has been any change. July 20th I go for a lung test to see if my lung capacity and all of that is good.
Not much else going on. Just 4 days of running around to appointments. I am slowly feeling a little better...we think that it must be the diet change. I still don't have the energy to workout or do that but everyday energy is improving. Nap times are diminishing slowly...even a half hour less is a victory! I will keep doing what I am doing until all this round of testing is done and we get the results back. Who knows what the results will be at this point. We keep waiting....
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
June 2010
Around this time, Glenn and I started to change our diets a lot more. We are trying to eat as much organic food as we can. I gotta try something as I am getting no help from the medical system at this point. We notice a change. Not big changes yet but we are seeing a difference from changing the diet to mostly organic. The idea first came to us from watching the documentary "Food Inc." http://www.foodincmovie.com/
If you have not seen it, it is a must see. It will change your mind about food and what you eat. So after watching the documentary and doing much research, this is how we came to our conclusion to change our diet. If anything, it was good to be putting REAL food into our bodies. Not only does REAL food taste good, your body recognizes it and knows what to do with it. We are so happy with the changes that we made.
The first weekend in June, we attend a golf tournament in Lac La Biche for the women's shelter there. We have been attending for years and we look forward to this weekend away as it is a fun tournament for Glenn to play in and it is a wonderful weekend of relaxing for me. They put us up in a wonderful 2 storey hotel room with full kitchen and a two person jacuzzi tub. While Glenn is at the tournament, I rest, read, soak in the tub and just enjoy being away from all communication with the world! This year is no exception, we are looking forward to this weekend away. Saturday morning and afternoon I am doing my relaxing thing...all is going great! Then my stomach gives out on me again. I spend a couple of hours in agony and am disappointed that my wonderful day has been ruined. I get enough energy to go to the tournaments supper with Glenn. I can't wait for the events to be over as I just need to lay down and sleep. It was still a great weekend, just could have been nice to not have it interrupted once again.
June 14 I go back to Dr. Sholter. We review my last blood work and again, although many things are wrong and don't line up, he can't put his finger on it and doesn't know what to do with me. He thanks me for seeing him but he will be sending me back to my doctor. He's done with me. Again, hope seems to vanish. I try to remain upbeat but it is getting hard at this stage of the game. Nobody knows what is wrong and nobody knows what to do with me.
I know what to do...I am going to see my good friend Lisa in Quebec finally! It is a good time to get away and to finally see where my dear friends have moved to and to get some much needed impact in my life. Quebec is going to be a good thing. I leave on June 18th and come back on June 27. Words cannot describe what happened to me in Quebec. No my body did not miraculously get better. But my soul did.
Tim and Lisa poured their heart and souls into me. Their friends did the same to me. I met a group of people that showed genuine care and concern for me, without ever having met me. They couldn't wait to come over and visit with me. It was an incredible time of these people pouring into my life...something that was needed and a long time coming. Because of whatever this illness is that I am dealing with, I have lost a lot of friends and such due to it. People didn't believe in me anymore. Yet these people 1000's of miles away did. And they did it without even knowing me. My soul was revived again. It was also a good time to go back into Ottawa and see many of the places that we had lived and frequented when we lived there. I left Ottawa hating it. It was good to go back and make peace with it. I also got to see one of our good friends from our football days and have a good visit with him and his family. It was just an incredible trip all around. I didn't want to come home. Home meant such uncertainty. Don't get me wrong, I couldn't wait to see Glenn! But home was not where I wanted to be. But home I have to go as I have to face what is going on. I have to keep pushing on to find out what is going on with my body. This is all going to have an ending at some point!
So home I am and on the 29th I finally get to see the lung specialist, Dr. Ramesh. He looks over the CT Scan results from December with the spots on the lungs. He would like to redo the CT Scan as it has been over 6 months and he wants to see if there are any changes. He too sends me for lots of blood work. He is going to line up some other tests for me as well and will let me know. So here I am, home and back on the big wheel of running around from test to test and awaiting results. Maybe this doctor will unlock the mystery???
If you have not seen it, it is a must see. It will change your mind about food and what you eat. So after watching the documentary and doing much research, this is how we came to our conclusion to change our diet. If anything, it was good to be putting REAL food into our bodies. Not only does REAL food taste good, your body recognizes it and knows what to do with it. We are so happy with the changes that we made.
The first weekend in June, we attend a golf tournament in Lac La Biche for the women's shelter there. We have been attending for years and we look forward to this weekend away as it is a fun tournament for Glenn to play in and it is a wonderful weekend of relaxing for me. They put us up in a wonderful 2 storey hotel room with full kitchen and a two person jacuzzi tub. While Glenn is at the tournament, I rest, read, soak in the tub and just enjoy being away from all communication with the world! This year is no exception, we are looking forward to this weekend away. Saturday morning and afternoon I am doing my relaxing thing...all is going great! Then my stomach gives out on me again. I spend a couple of hours in agony and am disappointed that my wonderful day has been ruined. I get enough energy to go to the tournaments supper with Glenn. I can't wait for the events to be over as I just need to lay down and sleep. It was still a great weekend, just could have been nice to not have it interrupted once again.
June 14 I go back to Dr. Sholter. We review my last blood work and again, although many things are wrong and don't line up, he can't put his finger on it and doesn't know what to do with me. He thanks me for seeing him but he will be sending me back to my doctor. He's done with me. Again, hope seems to vanish. I try to remain upbeat but it is getting hard at this stage of the game. Nobody knows what is wrong and nobody knows what to do with me.
I know what to do...I am going to see my good friend Lisa in Quebec finally! It is a good time to get away and to finally see where my dear friends have moved to and to get some much needed impact in my life. Quebec is going to be a good thing. I leave on June 18th and come back on June 27. Words cannot describe what happened to me in Quebec. No my body did not miraculously get better. But my soul did.
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| With Tim and Lisa at Gatineau Park, Quebec |
Tim and Lisa poured their heart and souls into me. Their friends did the same to me. I met a group of people that showed genuine care and concern for me, without ever having met me. They couldn't wait to come over and visit with me. It was an incredible time of these people pouring into my life...something that was needed and a long time coming. Because of whatever this illness is that I am dealing with, I have lost a lot of friends and such due to it. People didn't believe in me anymore. Yet these people 1000's of miles away did. And they did it without even knowing me. My soul was revived again. It was also a good time to go back into Ottawa and see many of the places that we had lived and frequented when we lived there. I left Ottawa hating it. It was good to go back and make peace with it. I also got to see one of our good friends from our football days and have a good visit with him and his family. It was just an incredible trip all around. I didn't want to come home. Home meant such uncertainty. Don't get me wrong, I couldn't wait to see Glenn! But home was not where I wanted to be. But home I have to go as I have to face what is going on. I have to keep pushing on to find out what is going on with my body. This is all going to have an ending at some point!
So home I am and on the 29th I finally get to see the lung specialist, Dr. Ramesh. He looks over the CT Scan results from December with the spots on the lungs. He would like to redo the CT Scan as it has been over 6 months and he wants to see if there are any changes. He too sends me for lots of blood work. He is going to line up some other tests for me as well and will let me know. So here I am, home and back on the big wheel of running around from test to test and awaiting results. Maybe this doctor will unlock the mystery???
Monday, May 9, 2011
May 2010
May 3, 2010 I am off to see a NEW Rheumatologist, Dr. Sholter. This morning I wake up and I am doing really bad. I have a migraine, my energy levels are so low that I am barely moving around and I just feel so out of it. I have no clue how I am going to make it to this appointment. I call my friend Lisa in tears as I don't want to miss this appointment but trying to get to it just might completely do me in. She suggests seeing if I can move my appointment. I try the doctor's office and the receptionist is down right rude and nasty. If I don't make it, she won't reschedule me until August. I can't go that long before seeing him. I call Lisa back, I have to go to the appointment. I don't think that I can walk the block to the bus stop to catch the bus. I am literally that bad today. She tells me to call a cab to take me to the appointment. I barely get dressed, throw on a hat and call a cab. I get to the appointment and just lay on the table in the room waiting for the doctor to come see me.
I guess in some ways, it was good to be at a very low spot that day when the doctor saw me. He literally saw me at my worst so he could understand a little more of what was going on with me. We have a lengthy talk, he examines me. Again, he is at a loss as to what is going on. He orders up more blood work for me. He wants to make sure that the last tests of the SSA and SSB are still so high or if there was a mistake in the last test. He will see me in a few weeks for follow-up. I don't even remember how I got home (I must have taken a cab) and when I got home, I slept the rest of the day. Not one of my good days for sure.
Surprisingly, the next week, I feel great! A whole week I went without pain, feeling normal and having some sort of energy. That is what makes this whole journey frustrating. I can have days, weeks etc of just absolute feeling like garbage and then I will get a brief relief period where everything feels "normal". It just doesn't make any sense. But don't get me wrong, I take those good times and I run with them. Glenn always tells me in those times to not overdo it but it is hard not to. Sure enough, it doesn't last and I go right back into the tank again but I am so happy to have had the time to feel like a human being again.
The May long weekend we headed out to BC and Washington State. Our niece was getting married in BC and our good friends live in Abbottsford, BC and Ferndale Washington. We had a wonderful weekend of visiting with friends and family. Glenn and I decided that since we were there and I wouldn't have much time to spend with my friend Kristi, that I should just stay out there for the rest of the week to visit. When Glenn got home, he was going to be leaving for a golf trip so it didn't make sense to have me come home and then be by myself when I could stay and visit with my friend. So we surprised her when we saw her as Glenn got in the car to drive home and he got out my bag and I stayed! It was a great week just to relax and visit. My energy was in the tank again so I slept a lot (good company I am!) but she understood and we made the best of the time that we had. I just hope that the next time I see her, I will be a lot more fun to be around and won't always say, "I gotta go take a nap". I am so glad that people are so understanding and are putting up with me.
So there goes May. Not a great month and still no closer to finding out what is happening with me. But I can't give up hope. I have to keep believing....
I guess in some ways, it was good to be at a very low spot that day when the doctor saw me. He literally saw me at my worst so he could understand a little more of what was going on with me. We have a lengthy talk, he examines me. Again, he is at a loss as to what is going on. He orders up more blood work for me. He wants to make sure that the last tests of the SSA and SSB are still so high or if there was a mistake in the last test. He will see me in a few weeks for follow-up. I don't even remember how I got home (I must have taken a cab) and when I got home, I slept the rest of the day. Not one of my good days for sure.
Surprisingly, the next week, I feel great! A whole week I went without pain, feeling normal and having some sort of energy. That is what makes this whole journey frustrating. I can have days, weeks etc of just absolute feeling like garbage and then I will get a brief relief period where everything feels "normal". It just doesn't make any sense. But don't get me wrong, I take those good times and I run with them. Glenn always tells me in those times to not overdo it but it is hard not to. Sure enough, it doesn't last and I go right back into the tank again but I am so happy to have had the time to feel like a human being again.
The May long weekend we headed out to BC and Washington State. Our niece was getting married in BC and our good friends live in Abbottsford, BC and Ferndale Washington. We had a wonderful weekend of visiting with friends and family. Glenn and I decided that since we were there and I wouldn't have much time to spend with my friend Kristi, that I should just stay out there for the rest of the week to visit. When Glenn got home, he was going to be leaving for a golf trip so it didn't make sense to have me come home and then be by myself when I could stay and visit with my friend. So we surprised her when we saw her as Glenn got in the car to drive home and he got out my bag and I stayed! It was a great week just to relax and visit. My energy was in the tank again so I slept a lot (good company I am!) but she understood and we made the best of the time that we had. I just hope that the next time I see her, I will be a lot more fun to be around and won't always say, "I gotta go take a nap". I am so glad that people are so understanding and are putting up with me.
So there goes May. Not a great month and still no closer to finding out what is happening with me. But I can't give up hope. I have to keep believing....
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