Today, my husband and I found out that our daughter's chronic stomach aches are due to gluten intolerance, so we need to cut all wheat out of our diet. We're bakers. FML
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Questions about your love life, a burnt turkey and the cousin who knows everything: Thanksgiving, a contact sport.
Today, I found out I have celiac disease. I also happen to be a baker and will be constantly reminded of all the wheat products I can no longer enjoy. FML
Today, I found out that I have a gluten allergy. What this basically means is that I can't eat anything with wheat in it; bread, pasta, cake, you name it. I am Italian, this basically limits me from eating any of the awesome food my family makes almost every night. Here I come plain rice. FML
Today, I'm quite ill. My new step-mother believes that the genetic wheat allergy I got from my mother would have gone away since she's now married to my father instead. Looks like dad picked a winner. FML
Today, I learned I'm not allergic to gluten. My mom has kept me on a gluten-free diet since I was 5. She was convinced I was allergic to it. I'm 25 and I am writing this over my first slice of pizza in 20 years. FML
Today, we live in a tiny trailer. My doctor said I have celiac disease. My dad, who takes things too literally, came back with gluten-free dog food. I don’t even have a dog. FML
Today, I had a lovely gluten-free pizza out at a local restaurant. After I'd finished, they informed me it wasn't in fact gluten-free. I am Celiac and this means I will be ill for the next six weeks. FML
Today, after extensive tests due to pregnancy-related issues, I've been told my diet must change. I can no longer eat salt, sugar, gluten, or meat, and lactose is questionable. The doctor hopes it will end after the birth. Seven months to go. FML
Today, my grandmother is shocked that literally all of her kids and grandkids have mental handicaps. She won't admit it's because her and my grandfather are first cousins, and is claiming instead it's, "because of gluten." FML
Today, I'm taking care of my 12-year-old daughter because my ex-wife thought she could cure our daughter's lactose intolerance by sneaking milk into her soy breakfast. The milk had expired. FML
Today, my two favorite things in the world are Pizza and Beer... I now discover I have Celiac and can't have either. FML
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TheInvisibleOne 31
Why do you have to cut it out of all of your diets, instead of just your daughter's? Also, it's possible to bake gluten-free food.
idoam 8
It is possible to have gluten-free flour, I believe. You could even specialize in making bread for those who have intolerance of gluten.
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Comments (212)
TheDrifter 24
Is it just me or are there many times more food intolerant people lately than there used to be?
LSS_fml 18
That's because there are many times more products (such as wheat/gluten) being shoved into processed foods when they don't need to be and people are developing an intolerance from it.
Fooberry 9
Use it as a business opportunity.
theonex17 15
Get udi's bread for her. It actually tastes good
celiacbabe5582 4
UDI'S IS YUMMY! Everybody Eats is also a great bakery, i used to order bread, bagels, etc.. from there until a bakery opened near me.
ifoundalaska 11
Me and my mom are gluten intolerant and we eat plenty of baked goods. Wheat and a couple other flours contain gluten, but not all flours such as oat flower, quinoa flour and tapioca flour.
Linaelle 14
Exactly ! Plus quinoa spaghettis are super yummi !
drlove78843 6
More like **** your daughter life actually. Poor kid.
EmmaxSampson 9
I have that. It's all good though, it's easy enough, just cus she has it doesn't mean you can't still bake, you just have to be a lot more cautious about what she eats or what you make for her. It's an adjustment I agree but it's okay. :D
iceman33 2
celiac disease sucks. got diagnosed when i was 10..
ezelisko 1
as a person with celiac disease i do sympathize. just be glad you caught it early. they found it on me at 20. its harder to change how you eat at a later stage in life.
Dracoboxer357 36
^ While I do agree with you completely, the other side of it is if you get diagnosed very young, you don't remember or know what a lot of foods taste like. My brother got diagnosed with CD when he was 5, and has no idea what beer tastes like, plus a lot of other foods. Maybe it's easier for him to not know what he's missing out on, but he gets reminded all the time seeing other people eat that there is foods out there he'll never know about. (Just like you do now, I suppose.) I guess you can tell me better which is worse. Knowing and not having? Or never knowing and being constantly reminded of it?
auntycj 0
Knowing is worse. I was diagnosed at 23, I have food envy. My son was diagnosed at 1, he knows to avoid gluten and tells people that certain foods make him sick but doesn't crave them. Sort of the same way I don't envy people who eat chicken feet or tripe or octopus. I've never had it, I don't care if other people eat it, I don't know what I'm missing.
MMScott 5
It def is! Sucks man.
ManUrLifeSucks 1
Y would ppl say u deserve it...?
Shadow_Phantom 26
Because people are jerks... That said, this is probably one of the few true FMLs I've seen as of late.
celiacbabe5582 4
Ok. First of all, to everyone who says "more like 'F your daughter's life'", no. It is very difficult for the parents, too. They have to deal with learning to cook and bake gluten free, buy good foods, etc... plus gluten free food is more expensive and often expires faster. But still. You shouldn't be posting about how YOUR life sucks because your daughter can't have gluten. I can't have it (I have Celiac Disease, hence my nick) since I was 8, but it has been a few years and I hardly even notice anymore. My whole family helps a lot. We have gluten free dinners as a family, and eat separately for breakfast and lunch. I am now an avid gluten free baker. Everyone I know prefers a lot of my GF desserts to the "regular" ones. That doesn't mean you need to change your bakeries and whatnot, obviously. Maybe you could start also making some gluten free desserts so your daughter doesn't feel left out, though. (a great recipe book is The Cake Doctor. Find her gluten free book, there are a ton of easy GF recipes.) If you do that, make sure you DO NOT ALLOW CROSS CONTAMINATION. I hope some of these comments help. <3 I wish you, your family, and especially your daughter the best of luck!
Kyot3 7
Pfft...stop bragging about having a girlfriend.
THE_A_TEEN 28
You're an idiot. GF in her post means "Gluten Free", not Girlfriend. Dumbass...
LSS_fml 18
79 I don't know wether to laugh or shake my head