My Story

     As you have probably guessed, yes, I do have Celiac Disease.  I have had to learn everything I have posted the hard way.  I was diagnosed when I was almost two years old and I'd been sick for a little over a year.  My doctor was suggesting anything but Celiac Disease and my mom stumbled apon it when she was doing some desperate researching.  When she brought it up, the doctor pushed the possibility away but Mom tried doing the gluten-free diet anyway and I got a little better. When I was four years old, the doctor suggested that I could eat gluten again because I was so healthy and said the specialist would agree with him. Dr. Thompson didn't agree with the pediatrician and explained that gluten-free was forever, he even wrote a note to the other doctor saying that Mom was right.
     I have had to "deal with" the disorder my whole life since then but it's not as bad as people think. I can take care of myself when I'm out and Mom's cooking is great. I'm very healthy and haven't gotten sick for almost two years; my last gap was longer than that.  My reaction to gluten is one of the strongest there is, so with any little amount of gluten I am sick in bed for about a week. I was behind in school at a very young age due to my illness, so my mother enrolled me in an online public charter school called IDVA.  I am now an honor student and have all A's (excluding one high B in Algebra II). I was actually the first one in my family to show the defeciancy, and several years later the gene in the women of my family kicked in, too.  My aunt (on my dad's side) and her little girl have the disease, and both my grandparents have an intolerance to wheat.  Mom blames my dad's side.
     I have a few friends who also can't eat wheat, so whenever we go on a trip with our youth group it's fun to sit together.  My mother and I don't mind helping their families "convert" to gluten-free, either.
Well, that's my story in a nutshell. Hope you enjoyed my blog.



DISCLAIMER: This blog is not meant to be professional help; it is meant to provide wide-range, summarized information and help people start down the right path. Even though I may seem like a professional, I am only 15 and do not want to be getting in any legal trouble for someone else's ill attempts to turn their life around.

Say cheese!!