Back to good health, thank goodness. Steak and veggies for breakfast (sorry no pic - as it was, I was rushing around getting things back to as normal as they get for me around here) It started out well, but ended badly, at least as far as "Living Gluten Aware" goes.
But it was sure good to put something in my mouth that I could chew, I gotta tell ya.
Breakfast: Steak and veggies - no gluten possible. None.
Lunch: Tuna sandwich with veggies and extra veggies from home with hummus. (Still yummy)
Dinner:
Ok, a brief explanation of dinner. I told my wife what I am doing here. I gave her the link and had her demonstrate some interest in what I am doing here. We needed to get some groceries, which isn't the usual thing at my house. Normally I go grocery shopping on Sunday night, but I didn't go at all this week. We went and picked up a dinner at Fortinos.
When i say that, it is kind of putting a nice edge on things. We picked up pizza and a caesar's salad for dinner. With cheesy garlic bread, too. As I was putting the items into the oven, I reminded my wife that I was keeping a food journal about gluten for this blog. She responded to me that she didn't want to go gluten free just yet. She did ask that I look into the gluten free pizza offered by Pizza Pizza.
I smiled and put the pizza and garlic bread into the oven and waited. We put together the salad and ate the yummy gluten-laden stuff. It was good. Not steak and veggies good, but good.
I went for a nice long walk with my family and watched my kids practice their bike riding skills while my wife and I had a great time, just talking about "stuff". Seriously, it is that perfection in a day that Morrie Schwartz talked about in the book/movie Tuesdays with Morrie.
I did finish the talk on my iPod, the one about ideas about celiac disease and gluten free living. I actually enjoyed learning about this topic - and I now understand why my wife asked me to look into this idea. As one of the speakers described what celiacs disease looked like in children, she basically described some of the things I have seen with my youngest child. Irritable, some loose stool, some smelly stool, some growth delay .... there were at least six or seven ideas that ran through my head that I checked off in the van as I thought of her. Something that I should think a reasonable parent would investigate further.
But the "Gold star" test for Celiacs, a biopsy of my daughter's intestines, would not be the way to go, I'm sorry to say. Man, I'd rather they do it to me.
I looked into what Teff is, as requested by a fellow teacher here at the school, the young lady with a child who needs a Gluten free diet.
This was a rest day; I had intended today to be a rest day and everything was just sore from puking the day before. I rested and got some more good news about rugby, the Special Education course I took online and other stuff in general. I tried to get to bed on time, but was a little excited by the prospects that were opening up for me, thanks to the good news I got.
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