Very annoyingly I wrote what I thought was quite a good blog yesterday, then the lovely computer decided to have a little heart attack and unfortunately it didn't save my post like it normally does!
Anyway I have a more pressing point to write about in my limited writing time today....
Did you know that ice creams, yes ice creams, well at least some contain gluten!!!!!
As if we don't have enough food to worry about, spending endless time in supermarket aisles, reading the back of labels to ensure there is no wheat in products, I honestly didn't realise that ice cream was something we had to watch out for too!!
It's ridiculous!!!, knowing and having an increasing knowledge of how food is made, there is really no reason to put wheat or any gluten based products in ice cream of all things!
Now we have the issue of going to those yummy ice-cream places and ordering a hokey pokey etc and asking the pimply faced 15 year old working there if the ice cream contains gluten. Wow, that will be way beyond their capabilities, their face will go red, which will be made more obvious by the outbreak of pimples, as they try and read the standard guideline of food ingredients that those stores issues, to 10 minutes later either inform you that sorry madam the only ice cream that definitely is gf is vanilla or I can't guarantee you that anything is gluten free!!!
I mentioned about my accident in my last post, I've been suffering very severe, debilitating neck spasms several times a day for the last 4 weeks, I haven't had a day spasm or intense pain free in this entire time. So needles to say my husband (who I'm now referring to as Poppa Smurf), and my parents and family have been eager to try and get me little treats to try and make me feel better. They can't stop these horrible spasms but they can get me ice cream or chocolate. I think I mentioned before I love Fry's Turkish Delight, it has gluten in it but the nutritionist told me that because I was so good with the gf free diet to have one occasionally was okay, mainly because the gluten was so processed.
I've probably eaten far too many of these lovely turkish delights, in attempts to ease some of my pain. My mum actually found some Turkish Delight Ice cream, I have to confess, I ate the majority of the packet!!!! Whoops! Next time she came over and I requested some ice cream, she actually read the ingredients and was amazed to find just how many different types of ice cream contained gluten. Basically all the exciting yummy ones, had wheat!! So not fair.
So now I have some pains, admittedly the majority are endo based, but I know that some of my pains at the moment are from eating the ice cream with the gluten!! What absolute crap!!!
So a warning out there for all of you, unfortunately ice cream contains gluten, so yet another bloody thing we have to read, check, ask, deal with inexperienced staff who have no idea.
But just a little for note, not the most sound medical advice (but I'm not a doctor) just eating one of these ice creams with some degree of gluten, hasn't caused a massive reaction with me and I'm sure at times (particularly while I'm having 2-3 severe neck spasms daily, I will indulge in the occasional gluten ice cream). Although obviously if you or your child are allergic to the protein in milk (which I will learn more about this from lovely friend author of Stranger Than Fiction (see me reading list for her blog) you wouldn't even attempt to eat the ice cream.
If you work at one of these big ice cream companies, I put out a challenge for you to make a gf ice cream that tastes just as good as all the others!!! And please send me one to try, I promise I will even write a review for you.
Imagine a world when you could eat whatever we felt like, without reading every bloody ingredients and asking fifty thousand questions when we go out.
I'm adding an ice cream place in Croydon Park Sydney that was recommended to me by one of my dearest friends. http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.puregelato.com.au%2Fproducts%2Fnutritional.htm&h=YAQBMMM0R
Wednesday, 6 July 2011
Monday, 27 June 2011
The accident
I'M BACCCCKKKK!!!!!! As you can see I'm very excited by this!
I begged my darling hubby to put up a post explaining my absence, just so you didn't think I'd fallen off the face of the earth.
For the past 3 weeks I've been bed ridden with horrendous neck spasms, several times a day! The pain is so intense, so severe and absolutely exhausting.
The most annoying, unfair, unjust thing about all of this, is it was all caused by a car accident in September last year. I was on my way to work, I'm a school teacher and it was the last day of term, my to do list was rather large, I was going to go the freeway to get there just that bit quicker to finish all my work!
This is rather hard but therapeutic to write.....
I was in the right hand lane, doing the exact speed limit 80km, when and I'll explain it to you as it happens in my flashback, I saw a car, and the drivers face, his face, come hurtling toward me from the left hand lane, coming on a 45 degree angle, I remember screaming, then he hit me. The air bags went off, they let off a smoke, I couldn't see anything and I was hurtled a couple of hundred metres up the road on the wrong side into oncoming traffic. The other driver, a green p plate driver, did not once come and see if I was okay, as the witness attended to me, while we waited for the ambulance.
But that is now a memory, a painful and heartbreaking one but a memory. It's the physical and psychological affects of the accident that I have to live with every day. I have permanent spinal injuries in my neck, back, a cyst in my spinal cord and quite extensive damage to my hip that has required surgery, oh and PTSD. And now these hideous, horrible spasms, which are all a side affect of the neck injuries.
Everyday I thank god that I'm so lucky that I wasn't killed, that I'm not in a wheelchair. I'm so grateful that it wasn't so much worse!.
I haven't been back at work since the accident, we got married in December a few months after the accident. In whats meant to be a magical time, my husband has had to shower me, to hold my hand while I cry uncontrollably in pain, to wash my hair, to cook for me, to clean, to do so many things for me, which just don't seem fair. We were meant to be having a baby but the doctors won't even let us try at the moment because of the risk of potential surgery that my injuries pose! This is gut wrenching stuff!!
I have to have my mum come and stay with me when my husband is away for work because I'm just not well enough to be at home alone.
I wasn't going to write about this at all. But I'm writing about it in the hope, just a small hope that someone might read this, or pass it on to someone else and a young inexperienced p plate driver might just slow down next time they get in the car to drive, might pay that bit more attention. Because in a split second your actions can change someone else's or your own life forever.
Please slow down and drive with care. Although my injuries are permanent and have affected so many aspects of my life, I'm one of the lucky ones, I'm alive and I know so many people who have been killed or injured more severely then me by young inexperienced drivers.
I would like to thank from the bottom of my heart my friends and family who have been there for me through the ups and downs of this crazy time, who've driven me around to appointments, who've cooked us food, who've cleaned, who've ironed thousands of shirts, who've listened, who've cried with me. You know who you are, thank you.
This is the one and only post I will write about the accident and I wrote about it just on the hope that it might, slow someone down and save someone else from going through what we have.
Because of the spasms, which are on average 2-3+ a day, I won't be writing daily at the moment. But writing is my saviour, whilst lying in bed in a doped up state I have been thinking of many posts I can write about.
So the one thing that I want you to take from this is please slow down and drive with care. Although my injuries are permanent and have affected so many aspects of my life, I'm one of the luck ones, I'm alive and I will heal to some extent and I know so many people who have been killed or injured more severely then me by young inexperienced drivers.
I ask you to forward this on to as many people as you can, the more people read this the more people will be safer on the road and hopefully the less people will have to suffer.
xxxxxxxxxxxxx
I begged my darling hubby to put up a post explaining my absence, just so you didn't think I'd fallen off the face of the earth.
For the past 3 weeks I've been bed ridden with horrendous neck spasms, several times a day! The pain is so intense, so severe and absolutely exhausting.
The most annoying, unfair, unjust thing about all of this, is it was all caused by a car accident in September last year. I was on my way to work, I'm a school teacher and it was the last day of term, my to do list was rather large, I was going to go the freeway to get there just that bit quicker to finish all my work!
This is rather hard but therapeutic to write.....
I was in the right hand lane, doing the exact speed limit 80km, when and I'll explain it to you as it happens in my flashback, I saw a car, and the drivers face, his face, come hurtling toward me from the left hand lane, coming on a 45 degree angle, I remember screaming, then he hit me. The air bags went off, they let off a smoke, I couldn't see anything and I was hurtled a couple of hundred metres up the road on the wrong side into oncoming traffic. The other driver, a green p plate driver, did not once come and see if I was okay, as the witness attended to me, while we waited for the ambulance.
But that is now a memory, a painful and heartbreaking one but a memory. It's the physical and psychological affects of the accident that I have to live with every day. I have permanent spinal injuries in my neck, back, a cyst in my spinal cord and quite extensive damage to my hip that has required surgery, oh and PTSD. And now these hideous, horrible spasms, which are all a side affect of the neck injuries.
Everyday I thank god that I'm so lucky that I wasn't killed, that I'm not in a wheelchair. I'm so grateful that it wasn't so much worse!.
I haven't been back at work since the accident, we got married in December a few months after the accident. In whats meant to be a magical time, my husband has had to shower me, to hold my hand while I cry uncontrollably in pain, to wash my hair, to cook for me, to clean, to do so many things for me, which just don't seem fair. We were meant to be having a baby but the doctors won't even let us try at the moment because of the risk of potential surgery that my injuries pose! This is gut wrenching stuff!!
I have to have my mum come and stay with me when my husband is away for work because I'm just not well enough to be at home alone.
I wasn't going to write about this at all. But I'm writing about it in the hope, just a small hope that someone might read this, or pass it on to someone else and a young inexperienced p plate driver might just slow down next time they get in the car to drive, might pay that bit more attention. Because in a split second your actions can change someone else's or your own life forever.
Please slow down and drive with care. Although my injuries are permanent and have affected so many aspects of my life, I'm one of the lucky ones, I'm alive and I know so many people who have been killed or injured more severely then me by young inexperienced drivers.
I would like to thank from the bottom of my heart my friends and family who have been there for me through the ups and downs of this crazy time, who've driven me around to appointments, who've cooked us food, who've cleaned, who've ironed thousands of shirts, who've listened, who've cried with me. You know who you are, thank you.
This is the one and only post I will write about the accident and I wrote about it just on the hope that it might, slow someone down and save someone else from going through what we have.
Because of the spasms, which are on average 2-3+ a day, I won't be writing daily at the moment. But writing is my saviour, whilst lying in bed in a doped up state I have been thinking of many posts I can write about.
So the one thing that I want you to take from this is please slow down and drive with care. Although my injuries are permanent and have affected so many aspects of my life, I'm one of the luck ones, I'm alive and I will heal to some extent and I know so many people who have been killed or injured more severely then me by young inexperienced drivers.
I ask you to forward this on to as many people as you can, the more people read this the more people will be safer on the road and hopefully the less people will have to suffer.
xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Monday, 13 June 2011
Missing in action
Hi all,
The husband here.......back in September your host had a car accident and is currently having some bad neck symptoms that have kept her off her feet. Bed rest and pain killers and muscle relaxants galore.......
Hoping to get back on deck really soon.
Regards,
The Husband.
The husband here.......back in September your host had a car accident and is currently having some bad neck symptoms that have kept her off her feet. Bed rest and pain killers and muscle relaxants galore.......
Hoping to get back on deck really soon.
Regards,
The Husband.
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