Hannah Montana said it best in her hit song ‘Nobody’s Perfect’ when she said “Sometimes I'm in a jam/I've gotta make a plan/It might be crazy/I do it anyway/No way to know for sure/I figure out a cure/I'm patchin' up the holes.” Everyone hits some sort of obstacles in their life, and I am not exempt from that. I believe that the biggest obstacle that I have ever faced is learning how to live with my gluten allergy. I found out that I had a gluten intolerance in the seventh grade, and that I had Celiac Disease a year later. I was in the middle of my travel softball season and my symptoms were the worst they’d been, so my mom pulled me from the team so we could figure out what was wrong. After I was diagnosed my life got really hard, really fast. Suddenly I wasn’t able to have any of my favorite foods anymore, I had to start packing lunches to take to school with me everyday because school lunch wasn’t an option, and I wasn’t able to go to …show more content…
I struggled with not being able to have a lot of the stuff I was used to eating, and it didn’t really help that I wasn’t able to have a lot of my comfort foods either. Soon enough I was able to realize that I didn’t get a choice in the matter and it was my life. The next few weeks I spent memorizing the names of ingredients that contain gluten or wheat, and then I going to the grocery store with my mom every time she went to practice reading labels. It didn’t take long until they started jumping out at me and I barely had to skim the ingredients lists and I would know if they were gluten free or not. The next year I was able to go back to playing travel softball again, but I still have to pack food to take with me to every tournament. Just last year I tried to get into a park with my food but they wouldn’t let me, so my mom, always my best advocate, called my gastroenterologist and had him tell the person running the park that it was medically necessary for me to bring food
Lerner was about to become the starting punter for the Gators and he thought this would probably derail him. After consist treatment the disease was under control, but not gone. He was able to start for the team, and earn a scholarship. Lerner states, “Maybe I can’t eat a couple of things here and there that I want to eat, but at the end of the day, it’s really not the worst thing in the world”(Washington Post, 2011). People with Crohn’s disease accept their condition differently.
Celiac Disease was very unknown in the early 2000’s, making it hard for doctors to diagnose. Most people that develop the disease do so during adulthood, but I was born with it. From birth, my immune system would attack the protein found in wheat, rye, malt, oat, and barley; when attacking the protein, the walls of my stomach and intestines were also being damaged. I would have stomach aches and vomit almost every day. Because the doctors had not diagnosed the disease, I continued to eat gluten, and it continued to cause my body to destroy itself.
Celiac Disease. It is a bit of a buzz word, with many people believing this disease to be a joke. The celebrities are participating in a fad, that gluten-free diet, it must be so healthy for them and that must be why people with “celiac disease” are eating it too. Except they are not. Celiac Disease, or CD, is a disease that affect the small intestinal mucosa due to inflammation. The inflammation is due to the body attacking itself in the presence of gluten. CD cannot be prevented and there is no true treatment. The inflammation destroys the small intestine and very little food is digested and absorbed. Patients lose weight and are constantly tired. “Just take the bun off; it will not hurt, right?”
...n and then all of a sudden it becomes a problem. It is important for one to access help if they suspect that they may have celiac disease. As explained, a gluten-free diet is the best approach to this disease. The sooner one seeks help, the better the outcome of treatment is. Not many people are affected by celiac disease and this is a good thing. If not treated properly, this disease can lead to other more life threatening diseases. There are many resources to help guide anyone who may have questions about the diet. Lots of books contain the necessary guidelines for a gluten-free diet. The treatment is simple and helps can help one drastically. Celiac disease should be taking seriously. One should also make sure that they are still getting enough nutrients because they are a necessary part of everyone’s diet. Celiac disease is a battle, but it is manageable.
Many people throughout the world may be living with a disorder that they may not even realize they have. I have never heard of this disorder until a few years ago whenever my father was diagnosed with Celiac disease. Celiac disease is a chronic disease which usually attacks the proximal parts of the small intestine, which is caused by an inadequate immune reaction in contact with gluten in genetically predisposed persons (Osmancevic, 2011, p134). Celiac’s disease is when your body can’t digest any food that contains gluten, which is a protein that is found in wheat plants and used in flour products. Celiac disease is one of the most common lifelong disorders worldwide and is characterized by a variety of clinical presentations according to age group (Poplawska, 2008, p317). If you have Celiac’s and are eating foods with gluten than your body isn’t able to absorb nutrients from that food due to the damage of the intestines. If someone in your family has celiac disease than most likely it will pass on through genetics. Most tests and diagnosing can be done now in infant and younger aged children to detect early on.
Unfortunately for diagnosed patients, there is no recognized cure for Celiac disease. What the individual must do instead, is change their diet completely. Some may think that changing a diet around is no big deal and in fact, that may be true until it happens to them. Similar to many other aspects of life, nothing seems to be a problem or as severe until it directly affects the person who thinks it is not a big issue. This makes people diagnosed with Celiac disease lives challenging. On top of having to change their diets completely, they also have to deal with people who do not understand the disease and how it is a serious problem. Being diagnosed with Celiac disease affects the everyday life of people and restricts what they can eat.
Instead, why not enjoy the time that you have than worrying about your problems. I wonder why is it.. I wonder why is it that when someone has been told that they have some type of cancer and they’re going to die in six months that they automatically decide to have a great life, why is that? Well it’s because they thought their entire life that they deserved to just survive. God didn’t put us on this earth to simply survive, God put us on this earth to live, to enjoy the benefits of our hard work. That’s why he put us on this earth for and if you aren’t living then do what you would do if you didn’t have any time left in this world, write it down and go do it. There’s a huge difference between living and surviving, it shouldn’t take some type of cancer or disease, or for you to get in a car accident or for you to lose a loved one to actually go out there and live your life. Do not give yourself a chance to go back, do not give yourself a chance to stop moving forward and do not give yourself a chance to second guess yourself because life is not about surviving, it’s about living. Thank
In life we all face obstacles. The troubles that we face don’t define us, how we overcome the situation is what makes us the people we are today. Throughout my life I have faced many trials and tribulations that I had to overcome with the help of my mother, ofcourse. I was smooth sailing in life until I started high school.
complications. People should never give up if they know that in life they would accomplish
Celiac disease is a fairly common disease but is not very well known. Celiac disease, or celiac sprue, is a digestive condition triggered by consumption of the protein gluten (Hill, Clinical manifestations and diagnosis of celiac disease in children, 2011). Gluten is a protein found in wheat, barley, rye, and oats. People with celiac disease who eat foods containing gluten experience an immune reaction in their small intestines, causing damage to the inner surface of the small intestine and an inability to absorb certain nutrients (Hill, Clinical manifestations and diagnosis of celiac disease in children, 2011).
Summer vacation, and school ends for about three months, and then you have as much fun as you can, then back to school… right? Well I had to go to summer school, but it wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be. Everything was going fine, I had a job after summer school, and that was going fine as well. They say that summer is supposed to be fun and exciting, and it usually is for me and my family. However in July my father started coughing up blood. My father usually doesn’t make it his top priority to go to the doctors, so he waited about four weeks until he really didn’t feel good.
Failure leads to disappointments but sometimes it can result in great lessons and successes. People can go through hard times, but if they stick it out and see it through, the failures and hard times can lead to success. This happened to me recently involving soccer. It was our second game of the high school season, and we were playing Northeastern. I had started the game and after the national anthem and the announcing of our names, the game whistle had blown, singling the start of the game. The first half went by slow it seemed to never end. With the end of the first half we were tied 0-0. The halftime talk was not very positive, understandably, considering we weren't playing well. Then the whistles blew again and we took the field to start
Each day was, and still is, a hard, frustrating and stressful time. This incurable disease has had a dramatic effect over the years starting when I was in kindergarten. I remember when my mother started using a cane so she wouldn't fall when she walked. She could still work, drive, and go on outings with me, her only daughter. In the beginning I didn't know how to grasp it all but I gradually understood a little more each day.
Living in a household where not everyone eats the same is hard. I know because I live in one. I no longer eat meat or processed foods but the rest of my family still does. Therefore, I see processed foods all in the kitchen cabinets and meat in the fridge and freezer. Is it hard to not give in and eat the junk when my family does the grocery and don 't buy me anything that I can eat? Yeah, it is but I can 't blame them. It 's not on their minds to buy more fruits and vegetables or no processed foods or no meat because they don 't eat that way. Therefore, I do my own food shopping and cook my own meals. I also follow people on social media who eat the way I eat and just keep in mind the reasons for why I eat the way I eat. Sometimes you have to create your own support system in order to stay strong. Over time, your body learns to reject it to the point where you get disgusted by the smell and sight of it, so don 't give up. Take each day one step at a time, plan your meals in advance, and socialize with people who eat the way you want to eat. Last, but not least, keep a positive attitude when it comes to changing eating habits because the change does not happen overnight. Instead, it 's a continuous process that may even change again over
There is a point in everyone’s life when they step back and realize “I can’t do this anymore, it’s ruining my life”. Many of my friends have started smoking cigarettes while drinking at a very young age, and continue to use this drug currently and don’t realize the affect it has on their future. While I have been smart enough to avoid smoking, I haven’t been as wise at making decisions when it comes to drinking. The amount of partying I’ve done in college has taken over my life, and has had a huge impact on my grades. Changing my drinking habits and continuing to avoid cigarettes will enable me to be the best I can be for the rest of my college experience.