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(I wrote the following in email to Mom, June 9th 2003, and only just happened back across it. I can't believe I don't have much posted about this stuff. I'll lose my whole life if I don't write it down.)
Well, things are a little up in the air.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
eor's father has an appointment on Thursday, I think, to see about a mass at the top of his intestine/bottom of stomach. If he has to go in for surgery Matt will probably go down to Florida to be available. Hopefully we'll know by Friday.
Meanwhile, his sister J has been diagnosed with breast cancer - I'm not sure how bad it is.
One thing that's settled - my cat, Ginger, died on the 29th. I miss her terribly, but she was happy right up until the last day, so I guess it could have been worse. The eventual thing that did her in was an intestinal lymphoma.
Also, Eor and I are going to try to go on a gluten-free diet - have tried it for a few days and it seems to make us feel better. If it does help we'll probably get blood tests and such to try to determine if we're actually gluten intolerant, which is known as celiac disease. I suspect he may have it, though I might just be a bit gluten sensitive, because I don't have all the classic symptoms like he does. The gluten-free diet is incredibly difficult, though, because there's so many things that have gluten in them - I never would have imagined. It's used in preservatives, caramel colorings and thickeners in all sorts of mixes and packaged foods.
And in good news, they've decided to keep 95 of us at the airport, rather than the 75 they were talking about. As so many people have been leaving lately we're probably down below 95 by now. It's getting pretty tight running the place with as few people as we have now - it seems 75 would have been completely impossible.
Well, things are a little up in the air.
eor's father has an appointment on Thursday, I think, to see about a mass at the top of his intestine/bottom of stomach. If he has to go in for surgery Matt will probably go down to Florida to be available. Hopefully we'll know by Friday. Meanwhile, his sister J has been diagnosed with breast cancer - I'm not sure how bad it is.
One thing that's settled - my cat, Ginger, died on the 29th. I miss her terribly, but she was happy right up until the last day, so I guess it could have been worse. The eventual thing that did her in was an intestinal lymphoma.
Also, Eor and I are going to try to go on a gluten-free diet - have tried it for a few days and it seems to make us feel better. If it does help we'll probably get blood tests and such to try to determine if we're actually gluten intolerant, which is known as celiac disease. I suspect he may have it, though I might just be a bit gluten sensitive, because I don't have all the classic symptoms like he does. The gluten-free diet is incredibly difficult, though, because there's so many things that have gluten in them - I never would have imagined. It's used in preservatives, caramel colorings and thickeners in all sorts of mixes and packaged foods.
And in good news, they've decided to keep 95 of us at the airport, rather than the 75 they were talking about. As so many people have been leaving lately we're probably down below 95 by now. It's getting pretty tight running the place with as few people as we have now - it seems 75 would have been completely impossible.