Lula said it best

Let me just start out by saying I am one the extreme blasto sufferers when it comes to food intolerance's. I basically can eat only protein and a few lone veggies and tomatoes for what ever the reason. I kid not when I say I have chicken for breakfast, lunch and dinner. And have for over a decade now. I have a very acidic body and have a history of uric acid kidney stones and gravel and crystals.

I was an avid reader before kids. I liked a good romance novel, but was also into light mystery like Dean and Patricia write. Post kids not the same kind of time, but for what ever reason I picked up a Janet Evanovich Stephanie Plum Novel. This was maybe 2006 or 2007. And I was hooked. Loved the lighthearted writing. Got the next one for Valentines Day or my B-day for several years. Have mental images to this day of Morelli and Ranger. Oh Yeah.

Well when we went to Florida this summer, and if  you are as sick as I am and cannot eat anything but a few foods you have to prepare yourself, you might wonder how I pulled this one off. Alot of work. Maybe that will be another post when the mood strikes. Anyway not a fan of flying, but can do it. Neither me nor my husband had been on a plane post 9/11 so were nervous and anxious for the entire procedure. And of course the kids had not flown. So I want to bring a book and since, as usual, planning and prepping for us was down to the wire I grab the first book in the Stephanie Plum series from our book shelf in the home office.

And never opened it. But after we get back and I am trying to find some nothing time over the summer I opened it and read book one. I am now caught up to re-reading book 17, "Smokin' Seventeen". Although I might not start it till tomorrow. I have to say it has just been so enjoyable reading them all over again. Like spending time with old friends. And reading them all one right after the other, they get funnier. In fact a few books ago I was in the waiting room at the hospital for my kidney stone ultra sound - yet another side affect of not being able to eat anything - and was laughing so hard I was crying and had people either staring at me or smiling and laughing too. A great laugh can be contagious.

Back to Lula. In "To The Nines" Lula, who could afford to loose a few pounds in on a meat only diet. The only page I have ear marked in all 18 books (last one I bought on my nook which just died last week) is in book 9.

And what I really want to say here is Lula said it BEST and I quote "I want to bite down on something. I want to feel it crunch in my mouth" "Jeez, You mean like a bone?" "Like an apple. Or a Cheez Doodle. Nothing Crunches on this diet. Meat doesn't crunch. I'm crunch deprived"

Evanovich, Janet, (2003)To The Nines. New York, St. Martin's Press

Perfect.

what do you wear during an attack?

I know is sounds strange, but I have clothes that I am comfortable in most when I am so sick. While I am usually a bare foot kinda gal, I want socks on my feet. Just something about warmth at the bottom of my body and maybe them being wrapped is piece of mind. I also might pace when I feel sick. Actually I pace alot. Before we knew what any of this was I would pace our street up and down. I would have these huge anxiety attacks. I still have them although not as severe.

Next I need elastic waste bottoms. Something loose and not binding and easy up and down for the obvious reasons. I have a few pairs of like lounge pants that are cotton and loose and do the trick.

I want a regular bra and not an underwire bra. I end up feeling like my ribs are being squeezed. Not on a normal day, just when I am feeling so bad. And usually a short sleeve shirt with a zipper sweatshirt that I can take off and on.

No jewelry. I have even been known to take my wedding rings off.

A favorite blanket. We have a polar tec from land's end that I bought several years ago for my husband for Christmas. Normally it is just a touch to hot, but it makes me feel swaddled. Thinking newborns know what they are crying about with this one.