Highs and Lows June 13, 2010

So I have to credit the family ward for this one. It seemed to come to life when Brother Zimmerman, now Bishop Zimmerman, was a Sunday school teacher. He'd start class with going around the room and having everyone say what the low point of their week was and what the high point was. It slowly spread to the rest of the youth classes and to the young woman's classes.

I wasn't reminded of this though until I saw it on an old young woman's leaders blog, and thought that was a good idea to do. So here we go, we're gonna each start with our lows and end with our highs just to end everything on a high note!

Jacob: Low: I had a test this week in musicianship where i had to listen to a piece of music and write it out and hand it in the next day at class. While i was listening to the given music though, the guys in the apartment above me were doing really loud, really bad karaoke, which pretty much messed up my whole listening and made me not do so well on my test.

High: We had date weekend instead of date night this week. I got to take Devin to a movie, Letters to Juliet, and then the next night we got to go try out the new Chinese food restaurant, Ying Yang. The best part about the food was that they allowed us to special order Devin's food without gluten in it. Finally, Rexburg has good Chinese food!

Devin:
Low: My low is kinda a bittersweet thing, because I got to the doctors and he switched my prescription and gave me the referral I needed to get tested for Celiacs, which is a good thing. The bad part about it is that inorder for the results to be accurate there needs to be gluten in the system to detect the certain anti-bodies that the body releases if you have Celiacs. So I've been eating gluten since Friday and let me tell you, it hasn't been fun. But, it'll all be over by Tuesday.

High: We as a couple had a good weekend together. It started with the doctors office, and finally getting some answers. And directly after we went apartment shopping, and we might have found where we want to live when we come back! Yay! and then we just spent the rest of the weekend together just enjoying each others company and and our time together and with our friends!

Gluten-Free Zone

The title must be raising some questions, but before I can go into why I don't eat gluten I need to go into some background.

Since the summer before my senior year of high school, I randomly get random, intense, and paralyzing stomach pains. It's been something that has kept me on high alert, and when we went to go get it checked, it just never seemed to be a firm answer i got from the doctors. They threw around a lot of maybes, and terms like IBS, acid reflex, and some stuff as simple as strong stomach acid. But you see, I never really got an answer as to what to do about.
I've just dealt with this problem because I didn't feel like having my parents pay for a bunch of tests and to get no sure results. So now, being back at school, it started to flair up a lot more than usual. It's been effecting my classes, private lessons, and my job and Jacob and I started looking into trying to find answers. One of my coworkers actually suggested looking into gluten-intolerance, and sure enough it seems to the trick. Basically, gluten is a protein in wheat that upsets some peoples stomachs, and it certainly does mine.
I have to be honest, I still eat bread when I really can't fight the cravings. It hurts sometimes but I am ok with the pain just for the shear taste of bread. The problem with that though is that gluten-intolerance often can be Celiacs disease, which pretty much makes eating gluten products fatal.

Nothing has officially been confirmed but going without it is helping. I mean I don't feel perfectly fine now, but it's better than before. I have an appointment tomorrow with a doctor that is completely new to my case and hopefully I'll actually get some answers.

But for now, my awesome roommate took us home for memorial weekend, and her mommy taught me how to make rice bread, and we got some time away. We really enjoyed ourselves and can't wait for classes to get out and go home!

i <3 jacob!