Health post followed by random fandom thoughts.

[aisalynn]

Yesterday I went to the GI doctor. After giving her a list of symptoms as long as my leg and the entire story of my life for the past year, she took one look at my lab (either the TTG or the IGG, I'm not sure. I've had so many blood tests done that I can't even keep track anymore) and told me I probably do have Celiac's disease. Wonderful.

She's running a full Celiac's panel just to sure, as well as food allergy IGE (there's another five tubes of my blood for the hospital to play with) and we've scheduled an upper endoscopy for next Wednesday. So I guess we'll know for sure by then.

Part of me wants it to be true, simply because then I'll know what is wrong and I can start getting my life back (actually, I'm told that you get Celiac's disease from the first time you ever eat gluten, so if it's true my health will be better than it has have been. I wonder what it would be like to have energy. Huh. ) but most of my is praying that it isn't, because I really love flour. I love bread, and cookies and brownies and breaded chicken, and I was looking at lists of candy that have gluten in and there's a horrible amount of my favorites in there.

(Reese's minis? How will I survive without them?)

My doctor told me not to cut back on the gluten while we wait to find out, because that could make the test a false negative, so I've been gorging myself on it. There is, in fact, and open bag of Reese's minis right beside me, and yesterday I went out to eat at O'Charley's (I love their rolls. I'll miss them.) and the other day I went and ate at the Olive Garden. I'm planning on eating pizza the night before my endoscopy, because I know that ordering pizza when I'm hanging out with my friends will be something I really miss.

Oh my god. I just realized. The fried onion flower? You know, my favorite food item in the world, the thing I posted about when Writer's Block asked about our choice of last meal, the thing that I totally got excited about when Spike started going on about this "onion thing" in the later seasons of Buffy because I loved it as much as he did? Yeah. It's breaded. With flour.

Oh god. If this test is positive I'm never going to get to eat it again.

*whimper*


In an unrelated note, I've been rewatching a few season 1 Veronica Mars episodes today, and you know who I'm starting to ship a little? Veronica and Meg. I don't read a whole lot of femmeslash, but sometimes the idea will really stick with me. (For instance, Buffy and Faith. Despite my usual fanatic OTPness when it comes to Spuffy, whenever Buffy and Faith are in a scene together I can't help but ship them, and I was totally feeling it season 3.) Anyway. I love Veronica and Meg together, even just as good friends. Which makes what happened in season 2 all the more sad.

It's funny how much I like Alona Tal in Veronica Mars, considering how much her character Jo annoyed me in Supernatural. I don't know, her wannabe hunter act was a little annoying, and I always thought she seemed far too young for Dean. (Jo and Sam, however? I could actually see.) Of course, I absolutely loved her in her one episode in season 5, thought her character seemed a lot more grown up--more hunter than wannabe hunter, so I'm not happy about the end of that episode, considering she had just started to be awesome.

Speaking of those rare female Supernatural characters, I've been creating .avi clips to edit with (I'm vidding again! Yay! And I am so excited about what I'm working on right now.) and at the moment I'm working on season three.

Can I just say again, how much I love Ruby in that season? I mean, I realize that love for Ruby seems to be an unpopular opinion in this fandom, but I thought she was awesome in that season. Totally badass, with her confrontational attitude and her witchcraft and the way she kept saving the boys' life. I didn't trust her then, but I wanted to. And I thought she was totally more believable as the good-demon-with-regret than in season 4, where I thought her manipulation was more obvious.

I miss Katie Cassidy's Ruby. She rocked.

Comments

[theron09.livejournal.com]

*hugs you tight* I really hope you get everything sorted out with your health - it would suck not to be able to eat your favourite foods but I guess it's much better that you know one way or the other.

I was the same with Jo - the only time I liked her was in S5 and I always thought she was too young for Dean.

I prefered Katie Cassidy's Ruby too, I thought she was much more ambiguous.

Again, hope things get sorted out for you!!

[lavendergaia]

I'm sorry about all the problems you've been having. *hugs* I mean, it's possible to cheat occasionally, right?

I never thought of Meg/Veronica, but I think if I rewatched, I'd totally ship that. I was never a huge fan of Meg though. It seems to me like Alona always gets poorly written characters.

Ruby. <3 <3 <3

[canyon_deye.livejournal.com]

Aw :( I hope it works out for you. I hope you'll be able to eat those things in the future, too. *hugs*

[cantarina]

I promise, I promise, the idea of eating gluten-free gets easier. I've done it twice now (once while under extended Celiac testing; the results came out negative) and the first few months are really difficult, but eventually, it stops being so frustrating and daunting.

I know that it's not exactly the same (you kind of have to think of it as different, but still delicious), but alternatives are out there to a lot of the foods you listed; pasta and bread and cookies and brownies and even breaded chicken, though you might have the make the last yourself. If you come back allergy-free then you're miles ahead of the game and even if you don't, then there's nearly always a way. (I've baked gluten, dairy, soy, rice, egg, and sugar free, all in the same recipe, and "normal" eaters have snapped it up.)

Some stuff just has to be got used to, though, like the candy :/ I've always found that being made sick by a particular food makes me a lot less inclined to want to eat it, though.


Don't worry, you're not expressing a truly unpopular opinion until you start claiming to love Cortese's Ruby :P And honestly, I think they wrote Cassidy's Ruby a lot more ambiguously; the demon who said "Fine, go and get yourself killed, I'm not going to stay to watch" and left the besieged police station is not entirely the same character as season four Ruby, who would never have left, not if Heaven and Hell is anything to go by. I have a hard time reconciling them as the same character, sometimes, short of Ruby receiving a certain re-education between seasons three and four.

[yourkidney.livejournal.com]

Celiac's blows hon! I'm SO FUCKING SORRY. A good friend of mine has it. There ARE pasta and cookie and flour substitutes etc. I'm not EXACTLY sure what they're made of, but there are definitely ways to eat mostly normal (even though it won't taste QUITE how it should) with that stupid fucking disease. :hugs really hard:

Haha I have a kind of guilty pleasure love for Ruby. Like, yeah she's kickass in s3, but she's SO HOT in s4, and more manipulative and kind of a bitch and…idk but I actually like her a lot. (I do think it's mostly to do with how I've slowly started to fall completely in love with GCortese.) But Katie was spectacular as well! I <3 Ruby in general.

[fenchurche.livejournal.com]

Well, I'll keep my fingers crossed either way... because as much as it would suck to have to deal with Celiac's, I know it's also a huge relief to finally have a diagnosis for problems.

I've got several friends who are gluten-free, so I know that if it is the issue, you're actually really lucky nowadays... there are a *ton* of alternatives available. Plus, if you're willing to try making things yourself, there's almost nothing you can't have.

Oh! And I know there's at least one national pizza chain that offers a gluten-free crust! If it does turn out to be Celiac's, I'll ask around and find out for you.

[cordykitten]

*hugs* I googled Celiac's disease (Wikipedia); I know that one, a woman from work has this. Don't worry, you'll live - means: You can get a pizza that is gluten free.
There is a special flour that you could use for recipes like your onions. My friend from work took the dough to the pizzeria and they made her a pizza she could eat. :)
Good luck, hon. *hugs again*