Granny's gone and done it again

[Cynthia12]

I can sympathize. I went off the diet wagon and have been paying for it ever since. Christmas and cookies and sweets and yummy foods are everywhere and maybe this time I can eat them and not set off IBS and or Diverticulitis.

WRONG!

Sorry haven't been around. Too busy being miserable and naturally due to the holidays, doc isn't available till next week. Not sick enough to haul my sorry backside into the ER so have had to be content riding the sofa, eating a soft bland diet, popping pain pills and feeling sorry for myself.

It's really rough not being able to eat like 'regular' people do, especially around the holidays.

I don't have a gluten problem although they say if you have IBS you should limit your gluten. But pizza is on my no no list also and I love pizza. So give her a hug for me and tell her she isn't alone.

Hope everyone is hanging in there and had a great Christmas/New Year.

@twisted-acres-farm Got your lovely card. Thank you and thank you everyone who sent one. It has taken 10 days for some cards to get to us this year. I don't know what goes with our mail but it seems like mail going or coming from east of the Mississippi is much slower than mail coming from west but even that doesn't always hold true and it's been too cold to stand out so I can catch the mail delivery person to ask her about it but something has definitely changed. For 78 cents a pop you would think they could at least get the mail to you in a timely fashion.

Lost two birds over the holidays. Sigh. My oldest rooster died. Indiana was 9. My oldest Marek's survivor. Yesterday I had to put down a Fayoumi hen. She was 5. Sudden weight loss and was obviously suffering. I've been doing this for 11 years this year and I always gt so discouraged when I have to put one down. I was warming to the idea of maybe getting a few white leg horns for eggs in a year or two but now I'm going, nah. Hurts too bad when they die and I get too emotionally attached. DH tells me to think of them as livestock and I say, that's hard. I hatched and hand raised that hen I lost. It's hard to remain detached under those circumstances. He just gives me a hug and tells me how sorry he is.Not much else he can do.

Loved my leghorns. To me, they were always the friendliest. Here's a girl thinking she can sleep by the door. Had to take her to her bed. And, she would just come on in if the door was open long enough. One she's jumping up to me.
I called all of my Leghorns .issues Piggy. They loved their treats.
Shucks I can't find the one with Cooper and a Miss Piggy in the house.

 

[Cynthia12]

@CapricornFarm sorry to hear that you are under the weather. Bronchitis isn't fun. I usually get sinus infections that turn into bronchitis due to the sinus drainage. Do you do lavages for your sinuses using a nettie pot? DH and I both do them and they really help with the post nasal drip and allergies. It's unpleasant but after you get used to squirting all that water up your nose it isn't bad at all. And it does help.

My big problem is that I have both the IBS/C along with the diverticular disease. I was never really able to get any clear cut instructions from the GI specialist I saw other than, eat a lot of fiber. Wellllllll that is one of the things that causes the flares. The fiber needs are different from IBS than they are for diverticular disease. There are two types of fiber. Soluble and non soluble fiber. If you eat too much non soluble fiber, it can throw you into an IBS attack. I've been doing a lot of reading about it the last week and discovered that I was probably eating too much fiber. I was told 35-40 grams of fiber per day to prevent diverticulitis. For IBS though, I've recently read 14 grams for every `1000 calories consumed. I eat about 1500 calories a day so I should only be eating about 20 grams of fiber most of it being water soluble fiber.

My regular doctor and I are going to be having a long talk next week. I'm tired of my guts being sore and painful and either having the runs or not able to go.

@Granny Hatchet if you aren't having symptoms, consider yourself blessed. I've had symptoms of IBS since I was about 16. Ain't fun.

I live on Imodium, generic brand, since I had c diff.

 

[Cynthia12]

More.

 

[Rambling Iris]

Hi! Everyone. I've been so busy with company the past few weeks I feel like I have missed all of you. I'm so sorry for all the intestinal issues you all have; I know it isn't fun at all. I'm fortunate I don't have any of those issues, just difficulty breathing and joint pain. As much as I like to cook and try new foods I would really be in trouble if I had IBS or Crohn's disease.
I think we have the house to ourselves for a while. The next gathering is on the 10th to celebrate youngest daughters birthday; but that will just be for the day. After that I will be in the planning phase for the garden season.
Cynthia, I love your chicken pictures. We have Cream Legbar chickens that are very friendly. They do like their treats.
I'm headed to the shower, catch you later. Unless I fall asleep in the chair like I did last night.

 

[Cynthia12]

I love Binoo!
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[CapricornFarm]

@CapricornFarm sorry to hear that you are under the weather. Bronchitis isn't fun. I usually get sinus infections that turn into bronchitis due to the sinus drainage. Do you do lavages for your sinuses using a nettie pot? DH and I both do them and they really help with the post nasal drip and allergies. It's unpleasant but after you get used to squirting all that water up your nose it isn't bad at all. And it does help.

My big problem is that I have both the IBS/C along with the diverticular disease. I was never really able to get any clear cut instructions from the GI specialist I saw other than, eat a lot of fiber. Wellllllll that is one of the things that causes the flares. The fiber needs are different from IBS than they are for diverticular disease. There are two types of fiber. Soluble and non soluble fiber. If you eat too much non soluble fiber, it can throw you into an IBS attack. I've been doing a lot of reading about it the last week and discovered that I was probably eating too much fiber. I was told 35-40 grams of fiber per day to prevent diverticulitis. For IBS though, I've recently read 14 grams for every `1000 calories consumed. I eat about 1500 calories a day so I should only be eating about 20 grams of fiber most of it being water soluble fiber.

My regular doctor and I are going to be having a long talk next week. I'm tired of my guts being sore and painful and either having the runs or not able to go.

@Granny Hatchet if you aren't having symptoms, consider yourself blessed. I've had symptoms of IBS since I was about 16. Ain't fun.

Finding Senna has helped me get rid of the pain that feels like a boa constrictor crawling through my guts. I take 1 to 2 tablets a day unless I plan a car trip the next day. Works really well for me

 

[CapricornFarm]

My daughter’s mother in law bought property in Kentucky. They are suppose to cut all the valuable timber down and sell it.

It's amazing how much they pay. I hate how it looks, but we are moving out. The forest will recover.

 

[Cynthia12]

Finally wrote the Xmas cards!

I'm excited to get another one!!

 

[Granny Hatchet]

Loved my leghorns. To me, they were always the friendliest. Here's a girl thinking she can sleep by the door. Had to take her to her bed. And, she would just come on in if the door was open long enough. One she's jumping up to me.
I called all of my Leghorns .issues Piggy. They loved their treats.
Shucks I can't find the one with Cooper and a Miss Piggy in the house.
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How sweet. I've always loved white chickens. Funny I never had one. They are always so clean looking

 

[2 Acres]

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Noooo....not Rudolph!!!!