My mom’s trip to the Ob/Gyn went well. She had the biopsy done, and after the doctor had taken it he said he would very surprised at anything other than a negative result. While this is obviously not definitive, it is hopeful and I am a big fan of hopeful. We won’t get the full results back until next week, so please keep up the crossed fingers and prayers she is totally cancer free. As for now, she isn’t in much pain and she is in really good spirits, which is awesome. She is actually concentrating more on her GI doctors appointment next week. They think she has scar tissue blockage in her bowls, because of allergies, and they know for certain she has diverticulitis. Her guts have been better since she stopped eating gluten, but there are definitely still some issues. However, as long as those issues aren’t cancer, I am a happy camper.
In other news, Sorcha has a new job and starts Tuesday! The clients for her business are all being understanding about the fact her new hours of operation have to be after 5:00 PM and on the weekends now, as they should be considering the quality of her work. She’ll be making less than 1/2 of what Priss Pot makes a year, but that is fine since SHE knows how not to spend money she doesn’t really have on an impulsive, greedy whim, and thus can live within her budget. Since Artemis and Jupiter both work they pay for their own car insurance and cell phones and clothes, which means all she has to do for her older children is make sure they have food on the table, a roof over their heads, and health insurance. Well, that and give them her love and attention, which is lavish and not a problem. Priss Pot is also going to have to pony up for child support for Gaia, and he will shit a brick edgewise when he gets the court order to do so because he hates to spend money on anything but himself. To be frank his woe will please me greatly, inasmuch as he has begrudged every dime he has had to spend on his daughter since the day of her birth and I despise him for that.
Finally, I have gone gluten free in an attempt to leash my raging ADD (persistent inattentive type). It has gone better than expected, and I already feel better and seem to be able to concentrate better. That can only be a good thing, right? I ordered some cup4cup flour from William & Sonoma, which costs the earth but works a treat, and Sweet Babou is making Lilo and I some pancakes and cinnamon rolls with it this weekend. Yay!
Thank you all for the concern you guys have expressed for both my mom and my friend and my godson. I really appreciate it, and I am so happy I have such wonderful people in my life who read this blog and make the snark with me on Facebook. You are the best!!
It sounds good for your mom, but will keep the FGBV’s going for her and Sorcha.
Good luck with your gluten free project. I had no idea it aggravated ADD.
Going GF has been good for my attention/memory. I’m so glad it’s working for you! And, YES, on the Williams-Sonoma flour. So good. So very expensive!
Continuing the FGBVs! May things continue to go well.
i was reading your blog at the exact second you were reading mine–freaky.
Anyway, I feel very hopeful as well for your mom. I don’t know doctors say stuff like that lightly.
Still, why the f do these things take a week! Don’t you think a lab that figured out how to do it quickly would make a fortune? I mean practically everyone would pay extra (quite a bit extra, I’d imagine) for a rush job.
Nonetheless I will send my good wishes in your general direction.
xoxox
jill
don’t think, not don’t know
yay for your mom! my madre had to have a uterine biopsy last year and it was muy painful but results were a-ok. Wishing you all the very best and good luck with the gluten free. Here in the sticks we can even get no-gluten goodies these days! Also I have never bought anything from Williams Sonoma that wasn’t terrific. (And it all costs the moon and Neptune as well.)
I got SP the elmo and cookie monster mini spatula set to nomnom on. She loves it superfuntimes!
Resident Celiac in the house! I can help you make anything AND avoid all the pitfalls. Of your Mom, you said, “Her guts have been better since she stopped eating gluten, but there are definitely still some issues.” Is your Dad still eating gluten? Is she eating supposedly gluten-free food at restaurants? If gluten aggravates the gut, it almost always pays to be 100% gluten free, at least for the first few months, until healing occurs (even without a Celiac dx). Also, lots of people find that when they give up gluten, if there is damage from it, they will also have to give up milk temporarily. That could be causing some of your Mom’s problems.
So, name your recipe, I’ll help you make it. The only thing you’ll miss is restaurants.
Glad that it sounds like your mom will be okay.