What a Small World!
This weekend has really proved what a small world we live in. I spent the weekend in Buckinghamshire with Mikey (my boyfriend) where we attended a food tasting party with friends of his from the village. Whilst at the party we met a lady who happened to have attended the same University as Mikey and I. Coincidentally she also studied dance, just 30 years ago. How exciting to wonder what the University and course would have been like 30 years ago. After the food tasting party we headed back to Mikey’s bosses house, where we were staying, and discussed the lady we had met. I was interested to know how her career panned out after leaving University and why she was no longer dancing. Unbelievably I found out that she had to stop dancing as she has Crohn’s Disease! :0 I am interested to get into contact with this lady as she manages to control her disease with diet alone. Maybe one day I could be in the same position. I may be unable to dance because of this disease, that would break my heart, or I may be able to control this disease without daily medication, which would be awesome! After this weekend I feel relaxed, inspired and motivated to get back on track to a happy tummy.
One of the most frustrating parts of this disease, for me, is if you ‘overdo it’ for just one day it ends up affecting you for at least a week. For instance, this week I probably haven’t slept enough, have been out for diner a few times, had a couple of drinks and just enjoyed feeling a little more normal. This has left me feeling RUBBISH, a bloated and painful stomach, a few more toilet trips than previously, really tired and all because I tried to lead my normal life for a couple of days. I guess it’s a case of learning to take things a lot slower instead of jumping straight back into the swing of life as soon as I feel a little better.
After 3 B12 injections I was looking forward to getting my blood test results back this week to see if my B12 result was back within the normal range. I was feeling better within myself so was expecting the result to reflect this. Frustratingly I collected my results and was surprised to see that my B12 result was the same as the result I received before I had the injections, which was below the normal range. Then a message below states that ‘above result is from a sample taken in the last 12 weeks.’ It’s so annoying that they didn’t even take enough blood to test my B12 level which was the one result I wanted to see if improved. So instead they just re-printed the previous result. This week will be take two, another blood test to hopefully see a more ‘normal’ result. Fingers crossed.
