No more settling for feeling bad
Today I feel great! I can sit up straight. I can walk standing tall. I’m smiling. I’m laughing. I’m joking with my co-workers. The other day was a totally different story. I still anchored 5 hours of live news. I still interviewed people live on the air. I still adlibbed about breaking news. But, I could barely sit up straight. I couldn’t walk well. At times, I could barely breathe. The shooting knife-like pains ran from my diaphragm down through my intestines. It was so intense, and familiar. I’ve lived with these pains for over 30 years. But somehow, they felt much more intense this time. You see, these pains disappeared 18 months ago when I gave up gluten. Gone, along with pounding headaches. So, what happened the other day? Well, the common word is ‘contamination.’ I must have eaten something that was tainted with gluten and since I’ve been ‘clean’ for so long it affected me - hard. I’m not sharing this to whine, or to ask for sympathy. I’m sharing this because when we feel...