Most disgusting post ever

[emma_in_dream]

I need to record this so I can identify future bouts of gluten-related illness. But don't read it unless you are very interested in the movements of my daughter's bowels.



13 December - I believe this is the date she was exposed to gluten through cross contamination at a cafe.

15 December - Thin diarrhoea, runny nose, stopped eating

Continues with illness, resumes eating

19 December - More formed poo, but 14 bowel movements in one day

Improvement in bowel movements but increasingly tired and easily overwhelmed due to malnourishment

30 December - Total collapse, spent day lying down, vomiting

31 December - Exhausted, vomiting, diarrhoea, stopped eating

1 January - Frail, looked much thinner

3 January - Looks much better, more formed bowel movements



Ruby will not say how she is feeling or whether she is in pain. Like many children with chronic health conditions, she minimises because she does not want to go to hospital again (heartbreaking). However, she does look much better today so maybe a mouthful of gluten only means three weeks of pain?

Must say that I am sick of cleaning up filth, no matter how much it is not her fault she produces it.

Also, note to self, next year NO food to be eaten out at Christmas.

Comments

[fred_mouse]

It is possible that she was also exposed to a stomach bug at our place, given that ariaflame came down with one Friday, and we have now had every one of us with some level of symptoms over a six or seven week period (I was terribly ill, two of the family members had a day of lying down each, one seems to have just had a rumbling tummy). I keep making the mistake of thinking that it is gone, because no one goes down within a couple of days of the previous one, and then realising that nope. If I had thought any of us were contagious, I certainly woudn't have had visitors!

[emma_in_dream]

Yes, I did wonder as she had been improving. Did your disease come with a fever?

Emma

[fred_mouse]

we all appear to have had completely different symptoms, but I don't think fever was noticeable for anyone except me, and I run on average half a degree hot at the best of times, so I only need to be up fractionally to register as feverish.

[emma_in_dream]

She did seem to have a fever.

Alas, today, a hideous return of the dreaded grey foam.