Help! I hate to admit this

[LBTC]

ICongratulate yourself on finding that recipe for -- oh, say banana marengs -- that tasted so delicious and slipped through your guts with no pain.

Hey, do you have that recipe?? Maybe I can start congratulating myself tonight!

Thanks again for your words of wisdom. I'm going to read through all of them again tonight and try to "digest" all of these wonderful thoughts. At the moment, the headache is starting again. I'm off to get another tall glass of water and something "yummy" to eat. Oh, it would be nice to not be at work today!

Hugs and butterflies to you all (my butterflies are virtual, so they don't hibernate at all, and they come in the best colours - all of your favourite colours and patterns, not just the silver and brown ones I see all of the time)

~T~

[KnottedYet]

I don't know if you are into medition, but here's one I learned that I really like:

Inhale - pull in all the negative stuff that surrounds you, suck it right in!
Pause - transform that negative stuff into the positive stuff you want.
Exhale - breathe that positive stuff out so that it surrounds you instead!

Repeat ad infinitum!

[Wahine]

Hey T,

I'm sorry to hear that you are feeling down. From what I can tell, this is not your natural state. I agree with Knott, you need to treat this like an injury and if you treat it right, it will heal sooner. If you treat it wrong, you'll end up back near the beginning and will have to start all over again. So try to not fall off the wagon.

Remember too that you're body is used to some of the foods that you are avoiding right now and that may be contributing to your melancholy. So remember that this too shall pass.

And BTW, I got a letter from my friend Tam in Vernon, she said she e-mailed you back but hasn't heard form you. You really should hook up with her. I know Tam through an Acupuncture course we took together in China. She might be able to give you some advice to help you along through this.

E-MAIL TAM!!

Hugs and virtual butterflies to you.

BTW - have you ever been to that cool butterfly place at Niagra Falls? It's amazing. If you're ever there you MUST go.

[Aggie_Ama]

My husband is a new Crohnie and he is still feeling frustrated. Everytime he has pain or a bout of diahrrea he feels a little hopeless. He is working with nutritionist, but still is waiting to understand his own case.

I myself have a chronic movement disorder. At first the meds were worse than the disease and I felt hopeless. I cried a lot and it is okay. It is a lot to process when you are told your condition is manageable, but not curable. Especially for you, when it is all about food and pain.

My mom told me when I first starting shaking: "Sometimes you have to sit on the pity pot. But then you have to get up, flush and go on."

So sit a while, until you are ready to flush.

(((Hugs)))

[LBTC]

Hey, Wahine

Thanks for the support! I think the food adjustment has both a physical and emotional toll. Tonight is much better, so, yay! I am determined to follow the instructions, but still wonder if it's okay to have those spice cubes...they are about 1cm cubed and the last ingredient in them is cornstarch.....I have not yet stopped using them and hope that I don't have to. The rest I am following closely, even bought soy sauce without wheat!

I did email Tam. It took awhile, but I did. She emailed back the next day and I replied right away to that. That was last weekend and I haven't heard back...so that's where that is. She was trying to hook us up with some snowshoeing buddies she knows.

And no, I have not been to Niagra Falls...yet. If we ever go, I'll look for the butterfly place.

Hugs and, well, you know,
~T~

[LBTC]

Hi, Amanda! I've been wondering how your DH has been doing. Even with the frustrations, is he having steady improvement? I hope so. He's had a very tough go, and, I didn't realize, but so have you! Your support means a lot!!

I am determined that the diet restrictions will be a good thing. I'm looking forward to the weekly weigh in tomorrow morning.

As you can probably tell, I'm not feeling quite so sorry for myself tonight! yay!

Wish your DH well for me and you two take turns "taking care" of each other!

Hugs and beautiful butteflies,
~T~

[LBTC]

Jennifer, Duck and Singletrack

Thank you! Your words of encouragement and understanding mean so much!

I'll bookmark this thread and come back to read it the next time I feel so low. You're so wonderful!

You'll all be happy to know that I worked out when I got home tonight. DH held the heavy bag for half of my drills and it was grand! I can hit the bag much harder when he holds it for me. And I even did a two minute drill at the end. I am pretty wiped now, but it feels a lot better than last night did!

And tonight's meal was baked chicken breast in a light marinade I whipped up with papaya, soy sauce, maple syrup and spices. It was particularly yummy.

Tomorrow night we need to find a great recipe for haddock.

Thank you so much. I feel supported, loved, accepted - that's so nice!

Hugs and super fantastic butteflies,
~T~

[Duck on Wheels]

... You'll all be happy to know that I worked out when I got home tonight. DH held the heavy bag for half of my drills and it was grand! I can hit the bag much harder when he holds it for me. And I even did a two minute drill at the end. I am pretty wiped now, but it feels a lot better than last night did!

And tonight's meal was baked chicken breast in a light marinade I whipped up with papaya, soy sauce, maple syrup and spices. It was particularly yummy.

Tomorrow night we need to find a great recipe for haddock.
...

Oh yes! Hitting something! One of my worst down periods we were lowering the basement floor. DH had borrowed a compressor drill and cut the concrete up into squares. I went down there with a sledgehammer and busted 'em all to pieces, imagining certain people's heads with every thump. Very stress relieving.

That chicken recipe sounds great. Hard to find papaya here, but it might be worth the trouble and expense if I could. Papaya's not my favorite fruit (I prefer melon and mango, with papaya somewhere down my list but not rock bottom), but it's s'posed to be good for the digestion and that combination sounds delicious.

[han-grrl]

I just finished reading Mind Body Balancing by Osho.

He describes how as humans, our "normal" is feeling bad. If we feel good, then there is something wrong with us. He says when we see happy people we think something is very wrong with them, and since misery loves company, we will try and "draw them to the dark side" so to speak.

Anyway...he goes on to describe how hard we are on ourselves, our bodies, and because we are so hard on our bodies we can have symptoms and health issues. By listening to our bodies a little more, we can also learn to love our bodies as well.

It has some wonderful lessons, and some wonderful silly little stories to even make you smile. I really loved reading it...

Smile

Hannah