Sorry...it was okay, but I wasn't blown away.

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back and forth free for all, you also don't know me personally to make assumptions about my personality. This has gotten old quickly, so I'll leave with these thoughts.

You expressed an opinion saying you were ill about her treatment which you thought was above and beyond.

I expressed an opinion, in turn, basically saying if you were in her situation you would want that same protection, considering it's very plausible that it's the obsessive fans and need to know that probably put her in this situation.

Opinions are opinions, facts are facts, and considering all the information any of us knows come from cutthroat reporters who are looking to make that big story, it would be rare if anyone knew any true story about a celeb.

I know if I were famous and hounded by people 24/7, and having a mental breakdown to boot, you can bet your bippy I'd do whatever in my power to make sure I had nobody around who could violate my privacy any more than it had already been violated.

As for the doctors getting suspended, if they weren't on her case, and it's not a teaching hospital, and if she has security, then it's for a reason, and they should have known better than to violate her privacy. Doctors can violate HIPAA just as easily as anyone else, and that's what they were doing, because it's also very possible that those same docs who just wanted a quick peek, probably couldn't keep it to themselves, or they wouldn't have been nosing in her business in the first place. They got less than they deserved.

Walk a mile in her shoes. Have sympathy and compassion in your heart for those who need it, which she obviously does!

If I eat wheat or oatmeal (I can't have rye or barley either, but it usually isn't something I am exposed to) I feel like I can't breathe for a couple of hours, my belly bloats up, I start tooting like a banchi and then I can't leave the house until all diarrhea leaves me.  It is TMI, but celiac stools are yellow to chalky gray, even white, NOT normal and are extremely foul as well. 

What this can do to you is make you anemic.  You can have malnutrition from never being able to absorb the good stuff in your food.  You might be either very thin or rather overweight, but you always feel horrible, no energy, tired.  Food never makes you feel better, no matter how hungry you are and how much/little you eat.

Celiac sprue is considered an autoimmune at this point.  The body can't digest the gluten (a type of protein) in wheat, barley or rye.  Oatmeal has gluten, but it is chemically different from the others mentioned here.  Some celiacs can eat it, some cannot; I cannot.  You can't eat any Quaker products because they are all severely cross contaminated and will make you sick.  What happens when you eat gluten all the time, is that the villi in the intestines flatten and/or fall off.  Their surfaces exchange nutrients from the gut into the body.  If they are not present or not functional, it dimishes absorption by 80%.  On the other hand, celiacs who go on a gut healing diet will have their villi return to a healthy state (about 90% of celiacs recover the lining of the gut).

If you have another AI, you have to know that celiac likes to piggyback with other AI disorders, particularly SLE and Sjorgen's.  Also, it is believed that 2/3 of celiacs are concurrently lactose intolerant and/or allergic to dairy.  It is estimated that in the US about 1:150 people is a celiac, whereas 1:4500 will be diagnosed during their lifetime. 

Never fear, however...gone are the days of rice cakes and hard rice bread!  There are many many books on making gluten free bread with bean and alternative grain flours.  There is plenty on the internet too.  The best book I can recommend is "The Allergy Survival Guide" by Melina, Stepaniak and Aronson.  It is everything free...no animal products, eggs, dairy, nuts, fish, shellfish, wheat, yeast, soy...and the recipes are DIVINE. 

The best part is that since going on a GF diet last summer I rarely have a day when I am tired and feel crappy, as long as I behave.  I have lost about 40 lbs with no effort, unless you call eating fruit, veggies, soy and beans constantly in as large a quantity as I like, an effort. I have been able to add some GF desserts back into my diet and not gain weight.  I also have SLE and I am on 7.5 mg of prednisone every day (weaning to 5 mg).  Despite doing a 2-month loading dose of prednisone to get the SLE under control last summer, I dropped 18 lbs the first month on it and another 10 the next month and we all know what pred can do to your waistline.

I'll go and make my polenta crust pizza for supper and enjoy the fact that I won't feel sick after I eat and it will taste wonderful.

We/they all referred to my mother as *Mommie Dearest* - she was Joan Crawford's CLONE and her mom (my maternal grandmother) was Bette Davis' CLONE.  Too much pressure put on little kids to be totally organized by the age of 10.....IT'S IMPOSSIBLE and not fair to the children - because this results in stifling your children's CREATIVE ABILITIES.

Happy for you that you are facing all that you are facing to not repeat (negative) history!!  Have a GREAT, GREAT weekend!!!

The post about "stole my son, you brazen hussy" brings back memories.  My mother-in-law actually kicked me following the rehearsal dinner and said, "Well, you finally got him!"  I checked later and my stocking was torn and there was blood on my ankle.  She had made this seem like a joke, but she meant it; I knew there was a friend's daughter she had wanted to introduce her son to after he left the military--I spoiled those plans.  Left my home (small town) to live in his hometown (Atlanta) and never felt accepted by his mother or any of his friends, who treated me like a backwoods hick.

It's no wonder we divorced about 10 years later.  My daughter is lucky that her in-laws were so accepting of her.

i feel like to each their own.  my kids didn't sleep with me when they were babies.  they slept in their own rooms and actually they fell asleep on their own very well.  my second boy would sometimes spit up big time while sleeping, so i kept him close to me anytime he was sleeping, in his bassinet (gosh don't know how to spell that!!).

i see my hubby and his family and although they all love each other, there is no communication whatsoever in his family and they aren't near as close as i am with my mom and dad.  i want my boys to grow up knowing they can talk to me about anything and that i'm always here for them.  my hubby is the type that keeps EVERYTHING to himself.  i'm not like that!  i blame his family for not having open communication, and my hubby suffers from anxiety to a certain extent.  his family situation is a whole nother chapter!

thanks for your input!      

My husband accompanied my son to practice.  The then assistant coach was trying to make conversation with him.  He asked my husband where he worked -- typical question, like how's the weather?  My husband answered honestly and left it at that.  This guy went on to tell his life story.  My husband did not repeat this to anyone other than his supervisor when he realized it was a breach of ethics for him to be around him. 

Again, my husband approached the head coach about the situation and without going into detail about the man's criminal history, asked for a transfer.  The head coach referred him to the league president, who asked why he needed a transfer.  He then told the league president, who does the background checks and would have found out anyway, why he needed the transfer.  The league president then informed the head coach, who who told the assistant coach why he decided to remove him from his coaching staff.  We certainly did not discuss this with any other parents on the team.  We had also requested that the head coach not discuss with the assistant coach until and if it would be necessary.  We were hoping to avoid the situation entirely by transferring our child, not the ex-convict's kid.  Silly us to think we were doing the right thing?

The last thing we wanted was for any of this to come to light.  We tried to handle it discretely.  I'm guessing you're also one of those people who likes to make the people trying to do the right thing out to be the bad guy. 

How about the INGREDIENTS for those meat pies!    

Johnny Depp has yet to let me down. There is nothing the man can't do. I thought he looked just sensational, and the cast was impectable. Thanks for sharing.  Are you have a MEAT PIE for dinner tonight?