I thought today was going to turn out to be a rough day....I missed my first class as my professor, for whom I have no appreciation whatsoever, locks the door promptly at 8:30am. Which this morning was more like 8:29am because I stood outside the classroom door and watched the time on my phone tick away from 8:30 to 8:31am....oh well. I had a restful afternoon though and a lovely evening.
Tonight I visited WakeMed Cary with Pogo. We're a Hospitality Pet team and we visit consenting patients to help brighten up their day. 
Today we visited a woman who had been involved in a car accident several days ago, she was being kept for observation but was still in a lot of pain from the accident. She missed her dogs who were at home being taken care of by neighbors so she really enjoyed getting to visit with Pogo for a while.
I wish Pogo enjoyed it more than he does, he does it for me and not because he particularly likes it. I don't think he minds the attention but he's a mama's boy and it gets tiring for him to have to keep track of me all the time :-)

We go every other Tuesday for about two hours, or until I can tell Pogo is done. Tonight was a special treat for him because we stopped for fro yo on the way home and he got his own doggie fro yo.

I have a pooped pup for the night...we'll see how long this lasts :-)

By the way, who else is loving this weather?! The temperature is perfect! I thanked God all day long for such a wonderful day. With my Fibro, my body has a hard time regulating temperature so when it's so nice out I really appreciate it!

Gluten Free Goodness

As some of you may know, I recently (August '11) found out I was gluten intolerant. How did I find this out?
Well I cut it out of my diet completely and by the end of the week I was feeling tons better.
Many fibro patients eat gluten free because it helps with fatigue and sluggishness. For me I just feel all around better. I think it's also helped my digestion and reflux issues.
So, I'm feeling better: great! But...I have to be really dedicated to this because now if I slip up and eat something gluten-y a battle occurs in my stomach.
If this is all it takes to feel so much better, I guess I can handle it. But I can't start thinking about how I'll be able to do this for the rest of my life. Luckily, I'll be an actual engineer (God willing!) soon, not an engineering student, which will mean I'll have money and no longer will be a poor college student.
Gluten free food is so expensive!
I buy a lot of it at Whole Foods because they have a big selection in one place, especially when it comes to bread and baking mixes. Most grocery stores don't do a very good job of identifying gluten free good and also have a terrible selection, so it's very time consuming to go and read labels before I can buy anything. Wal-mart surprisingly has a fairly decent amount of gluten free food, I found gluten free bisquick there! It tastes pretty much the same, a little grainy, which is typical of GF food, but to make it there is no such thing as just add water. It calls for oil, eggs, milk, butter, etc. But, still much easier than starting from scratch.
If anybody has any ideas on good gluten free food or restaurants with gluten free options please let me know!