GF nov 14, 2012

Annoyances

Annoyances with having Celiac and being gluten free:
- People that don’t understand and aren’t willing to listen

 —> Example: ” Are you sure you have Celiac disease? You seem to weigh a lot.”
Thanks ignorant person. Thank you for calling me fat and sounding stupid simultaneously. I’m sure I have it, otherwise I wouldn’t deal with not eating gluten. 

—>This includes servers. If you don’t understand what gluten is, and where it comes from, please don’t act like you know and ruin 3 days of my life from it. Also, if I ask to see your manager, it’s not because your in trouble, but because I really just want to not get sick. 

- Doctors that treat me like I’m an idiot

 —> “Emergency rooms are for emergencies”
In response to ovarian cyst pain and a rebound migraine

—> “Oh, that’s not my body part”
I would like to inform this doctor that all my body parts are connected and what you do to one affects the other

- Teachers that think I’m faking/students that fake

—> This is two part, because I have some teachers that are understanding, and these are usually teachers that have been through my problem and have had a migraine, or have been directly involved with one. If the teacher hasn’t, then they don’t understand. A migraine isn’t just a super headache, it’s so much more, and there is no way I can just ‘work through it’. (Yup, I’ve heard that from more than one prof). 

This list goes on and on, but these are just the ones that I want to punch in the face.