The results

I am so crap at doing these I think I will start doing it but then something else comes along and I never finish what I am writing so what better place to write a new entry than at work! It looks like you doing some work when in fact I’m not, result!

So where was I? Arh yes the letter was sitting there when I got home from work, thinking it was just an appointment letter I opened it to read that the biopsy results show I have Coeliacs (which is what people keep telling it could be), bugger was the first thought, here’s me thinking it was just a virus but nope its something that’s going to change the way I live my life for ever. Those that do not know anything about Coeliacs and that’s a lot of people as when ever I tell people the normal response it “What’s that?”.

Well in short it’s a disease that is classed as an autoimmune disease which basically means that the body see’s gluten as a foreign body and the immune system attacks it. In doing this the body damages the (normally) small intestines. This then leads to the nutrients in food not being processed and absorbed correctly. More information click here (takes you to Wikipedia). The only was to live with Coeliacs is to remove gluten from your diet, the disease can not be cured (yet) and once you have it, you have it for life.

I had read a lot about coeliacs and what it would mean but being told you have it was still a shock, its like what the hell caused that, what does it mean to me and more importantly why the hell have I suddenly got this. Most of these questions I will probably never be sure but later that evening I just had to realise that I have it and I have to live with it and because of the internet there is a wealth of information and discussion groups out there, which I have spent a lot of time reading.