… and for a changes its not actually my teeth.

It seems that I have slipped into Crohns acceptance quite nicely over the last two months.  Don’t get me wrong, I still don’t like it… but there is nothing I can do to change it so me and Crohns have to start learning to live together.

I guess…. not everyone accepts it so easily.  My diet (ie what I have found I can’t eat) is causing problems among my family and friends.  I can understand how its frustrating – a few of my very favourite foods are on the ‘do not eat’ list.  Which sucks.  But it seems that a few of those foods are also favourites of the other people in my life… and they are having to make choices for things like birthday dinners -‘Amanda or the venue’.  I just want to say, for the record, that if I thought it was safe to go back to my old eating habits (where I simply ate everything) I would have by now.

Sure, you read those almost miracle stories of written by people on Imuran who have gone back to being able to consume anything and everything… but they are the minority.  It would be nice to be able to slip right back into my old lifestyle sans flare ups – but there is a slim chance of that happening.  I am not giving up on it mind you.  I think the most important thing is that I do everything within my power to stay on the wagon until I am holding my concrete results to this treatment.  I am still unwilling to try the suspect foods…. after all its been 5 months and that’s a record I’d rather like to keep.

For now all I can do is appologise to… pretty much everyone and ask for a bit more time… I know events like birthday aren’t about me… nor do I want them to be… I would much rather see the birthday person (very PC for me there) enjoy their day or night and do what they want – not compromise to fit in around my circumstances.

Some things do have to change…. and I am sure I will get asked if I think I am playing too close to the recommendations I have been given.  Maybe?  But I have stayed clear of hell for close on 6 months now…. I am not ready to go back there.  I am especially not ready to go back there when I have to tools to avoid it.