- Location
- Washington, DC
Hello all,
I don't have Crohn's, I have celiac disease instead. I joined because I thought there might be some questions about the gluten free diet that I could help answer. My younger brother had both Crohn's and celiac disease and passed many years ago. Since then I developed or discovered that I have celiac disease which explained an awful lot of things. I have been on the gluten free diet for a little over 4 years now. While that doesn't make me an expert on GF I least have a good story usually. :~)
I have some thyroid problems, mostly hypo due to a cyst and some nodes. That's ok I take pills for that. I have some nerve damage in my left arm (accident) which causes my typing to get out of whack quite often. Mostly I catch those and fix them but not always.
Anyway, I am not an expert on much of anything really, especially Crohn's. I still have trouble spelling it sometimes. But I hope to be able to contribute something positive along the way. If I get out of line please feel free to smack me upside the head and say '"stupid celiac, that doesn't work for us!" I won't mind at all.
Anyhow, glad to be here and nice to meet you all. I have lurked at this forum in the past years but never joined until now. I do feel we (celiacs and Crohnies) are somewhat brothers in arms as they say. We both fight the same kind of battle, just in different ways.
Oh, I am mid-50's 6 feet and 200 lbs, gray hair and I do make art for fun. Mostly encaustic paintings.
My cat is named Muffin and she is gray too.
I don't have Crohn's, I have celiac disease instead. I joined because I thought there might be some questions about the gluten free diet that I could help answer. My younger brother had both Crohn's and celiac disease and passed many years ago. Since then I developed or discovered that I have celiac disease which explained an awful lot of things. I have been on the gluten free diet for a little over 4 years now. While that doesn't make me an expert on GF I least have a good story usually. :~)
I have some thyroid problems, mostly hypo due to a cyst and some nodes. That's ok I take pills for that. I have some nerve damage in my left arm (accident) which causes my typing to get out of whack quite often. Mostly I catch those and fix them but not always.
Anyway, I am not an expert on much of anything really, especially Crohn's. I still have trouble spelling it sometimes. But I hope to be able to contribute something positive along the way. If I get out of line please feel free to smack me upside the head and say '"stupid celiac, that doesn't work for us!" I won't mind at all.
Anyhow, glad to be here and nice to meet you all. I have lurked at this forum in the past years but never joined until now. I do feel we (celiacs and Crohnies) are somewhat brothers in arms as they say. We both fight the same kind of battle, just in different ways.
Oh, I am mid-50's 6 feet and 200 lbs, gray hair and I do make art for fun. Mostly encaustic paintings.
My cat is named Muffin and she is gray too.