GF Update

[kalyx]

Yesterday, as I was about to leave for work, my phone rang. My new primary care physician was calling me first thing, to try to catch me before I left for work. My blood work was in and she wanted to discuss it

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[anonymous]

The anger and grief is already there. First, because I obviously had this disease as an infant and throughout childhood. And I'm pissed at my parents for constantly calling me a baby because I complained of stomach aches.

And grief because if I had been gluten-free, I likely wouldn't be dealing with one active autoimmune disease (MS) and another latent one (sarcoidosis). Also, my father might have also been diagnosed and thus, he might be alive today. I've been obsessively reading journal articles on the association of intestinal inflammation with cancer, esp. non-hodgkins lymphoma. This both saddens and frightens me.

And thanks for the thoughts on Asian cuisines. Japan has a hard-core love affair with wheat and so many of their products have wheat. This is the problem with miso pastes as traditionally, only rice would have been used, but now everyone uses barley. Because of this the taste of soy sauces and miso is different and much better, but if one scours the grocery shelves, it is possible to find products where the older methods have been used instead, if one could read the labels. And I can only read a small amount of Japanese...

Oh and I love buckwheat noodles. I used to have a large package of 100% buckwheat soba, but I haven't been able to find them recently. They are much superior in flavor then the wheat/buckwheat mix noodles, but sometimes tricky to find. The ability to read Japanese would help.

[kalyx]

Why does my work computer refuse to remember me? Gah!