New Beginnings

Well, here I am.

It has been nearly 18 months since my last entry, and I am staring at a blank page before me, wondering what to write.  I seriously doubt there is anybody out there reading this, but just in case -- please accept my apologies for staying away so long.

How do I explain my absence and what has been going on in my life without getting too personal?  I don't know that I can, so I will just spill it here.... right now.  Get it over with, and move on.

To make a long story short, my marriage ended, I moved myself with five of my kids back to my home state of Washington to start a new life, and go back to school.... again.

As for my health, no one ever did find irrerutable proof of celiac disease, and so I have had to settle with a gluten intolerance.  In fact, there was never any explanation given for any of the strange symptoms that have beguiled me over the last several years.

However, I can say this much:  I feel healthier now than I have over the past few years since all of this began.  I still get the unexplained heart palpitations and every time I mention hormones to anyone in the medical profession, I get the "rolled eye" expression without the rolled eyes.  I have been told so many times by menopausal women that they experienced the same thing, and yet the medical community still continues to scoff at it.  Why?

Since moving away and starting anew, I have slacked on my committment to exercise, and that is something I need to pick up again -- it is something I need to do for myself.  It is something I very much want to pick up again and find the time much as I did before.  It was the first time in my life I had ever stayed with an exercise routine for any length of time -- 10 months, 6 days a week.  I did it because it was a priority for me, and it needs to become a priority again.

I am off of all prescription medications, and still eating gluten-free.  There have been a few slip-ups with gluten, but I will usually pay the price for it, hence the self-diagnosed gluten intolerance.  Gluten is tough on the body, and after having been away from it for so long, reintroducing it can cause problems with which I don't care to deal.  I've been down that road and don't want to go there again.

As for this blog, I would like to gradually change the focus from celiac disease to just living a healthier lifestyle -- not just physically, but also mentally.  I may even just start a new blog and leave this one up for those who are searching for answers, just like I was.  I am still searching for answers.  I just haven't found any.

And as if all this change in my life isn't enough, I just discovered today, that I had a number of comments awaiting my approval to be posted and I was never notified by Blogger that they existed!  I feel bad and hope to be on the ball from now on!!!

Stay tuned, don't give up on me, and we will see where this all leads.