Life as we all know, has it's little journey for each of us to follow individually. Somehow my atv went off the trail, and has led me to a place where I may have to give up baked goods for the rest of my life. Am I sad? I don't know yet... too early to tell. It is the main reason I haven't posted in a while, I feel pretty gross most of the time, and have no energy to do anything more than daily activities like work, laundry and cooking dinner.
I've been diagnosed with Diverticulitis, so in turn I have Diverticulosis or Diverticular Disease. What's that you say?? It's usually older people that get this? You are correct, at 38 I am a little young to have this fantastically painful little gem of a disease. I know how it happened, I'm not blind to my hours of cross stitching, or sitting on my bum in general, enjoying too many cheeseburgers and not enough water. I know how this happened, but it has left me in a bit of a pickle.
I haven't seen the Dietician yet, so all information I've been getting is from the internet, or 3rd hand, I am trying to take this all with a grain of salt until I talk to a doctor/dietician who knows the skinny on DD. In the meantime, I am avoiding seeds as there seems to be a relatively high concensus that they can cause issues, and I'm drinking water like I've been walking through the Agobe for a week.
I have 2 cakes and a slough of cupcakes to make this month, it will be difficult to not eat any for "Quality control"... let's face it, QC used to involve a pint of cold milk and a six pack of goodies after the hard work was done. I love my cakes, but they, in addition to the other things I haven't been doing for myself, have left me in a position where if I want to live to a healthy old age, or at least an old age without too many painful flare ups, I had better behave.
I will be starting another blog in view of my lifestyle change, and will use that as a means of working through the DD, and I will continue to post cakes and cupcakes for friends on this site. Hey - just because I can't have them, doesn't mean I can't make them and see the joy in other people's faces.
Just keeping you posted - there will be cake pictures this weeked, horray!
