Celiac & Weather

Man I've been a blog slacker lately. I've been really busy at work, which is good for me but bad for my blog and I didn't have a home computer until My mailman brought me my charger yesterday!! Now I can blog a little more often.


I've felt really run down the past couple of days and I was blaming it on me just being stressed out but yesterday My stomach started bothering me which led me to blame celiac disease. I know I've explained this before but you're about to hear it again.

Celiac Disease is something that I have that keeps my body from being able to break down the proteins that make up Wheat Gluten. Those proteins get stuck in the villi inside my intestines, which are the little hair like objects that absorb nutrience and vitamins. Once those villi get clogged, they are no longer able to absorb the good stuff I need, and I start feeling really run down and sick. It usually takes about 2 to 7 days after I ingest gluten for my stomach to start hurting depending on how much wheat gluten I ingest. I didn't ingest much this time so It wasn't too bad of an episode.

Anyway so in a few days I should be back to normal and until then I'll just have to deal with feeling rundown and headaches/bellyaches. At least I know what it was though...The delicious protein shakes I've been eating for dinner at the gym. I talked to the guy that makes them and apparently the Meal replacer is what has wheat in it, and he only puts like a table spoon in the shake so he said he could put extra whey in the shake instead of meal replacer and it would work just as well so I'll still get to enjoy those delicious German Chocolate Shakes!!

Today We're experience icy-rain and everyone is freaking out about it.  And when I say freaking out about it I mean that all the grocery stores are all out of milk and bread and the school and half of the businesses are shut down.  We don't get much snow in Arkansas, only ice.  We've had some pretty bad experiences with ice storms so everyone gets pretty excited when there is a chance of ice.  It's not bad on the roads at all right now but It's supposed to get worse so I guess I'm just outta luck on the milk and bread if we get iced in because I'm all out and I wasn't one of the ones who ran to the grocery store at the first sign of ice.

I thought I'd post some photos of the "horrible" weather we're having here.

The monstrous Icecicles on my roof.

This is the Court house across the street from my work.  The flags are frozen!

Seriously it's only like 33 degrees outside but it's raining and freezing to all the trees and fences and I don't understand the panic!

That's a piece of string that used to have a tag on it.  It's on my oudoor table and I'm too lazy to cut it off...made a pretty photo though..glad I didn't cut it :)

This fence row doesn't have as much ice on it as it did this morning because Birdie got her head stuck in it trying to get her ball that rolled under the fence and she wiggled so much all of the ice fell off.  She was rescued by her momma and is fine, embarrassed but fine.

I Seriously hope the trees don't get too much more ice because I have 5 HUGE oak trees in my front yard and I REALLY don't want to pick up sticks all spring.

Ok what a boring post...Sorry!  If you're experiencing bad weather for real be careful out there!!!