Categories: gardening, family, lupus-sle
Tags: allotment, munchkin, gluten, Family
Date: 05 April 2009 15:06:39
I keep having things to blog about but then not really having a chance to blog them. So I suppose this could be a long post. Or maybe there's not much to say when the original desire to write about something has passed.
My parents-in-law have just gone on to see some more family. They've been with us since Friday evening and we've had a lovely weekend. The weather has been fantastic. Sunny spring weather which was really quite warm. Yesterday we took a picnic to Coughton Court. Unfortunately I didn't manage to take any pictures to share with you. The grounds are lovely as is the house. On this occasion we didn't go inside the house (probably a good thing - I keep knocking into things with my bump!) but had a good walk around the play area and some of the grounds. Munchkin had a great time and very much enjoyed going on the climbing frame and slide repeatedly as well as looking at chickens and sheep.
This morning we all went to a very busy Palm Sunday service at our church. It was a really nice service and I wasn't quite prepared for it to be so packed! It was very well organised too. We all met at the front of church and had the first bit outside (in the beautiful sunshine) before parading into the church with our palm crosses after the choir and the 'uniformed groups' (Guides, Scouts, etc.). Munchkin enjoyed waving his palm cross around and was really well behaved considering he woke up with a cold and a nose running like a tap. Poor little thing - he was shattered by lunchtime. He's enjoying a nice nap now - I hope that it does him some good..
We've been enjoying some really wonderful tasting purple sprouting from our allotment. The recent sunny weather (we've had some fantastic days over the last couple of weeks) has brought things on well. The broad bean plants are growing up well and will need supporting soon and the shallots and garlic that hubby planted a few weeks ago are starting to shoot. He also sowed lettuces and planted out some seedlings that are further on as well as sowing radishes and leeks. All of which are coming up and seem to be doing quite well. Our spring cabbages and leeks (which we should be having about now) are all on the small weedy side because we planted them later than we ought to have done last year. Ah well - maybe next time we'll get it right.
I went to the clinic just over a week ago and saw my obstetric consultant and my rheumatology consultant. They're very happy and my scan showed that things are all progressing well and as they should be. The thing with Lupus however, is that in the case of people with anti-phospholipid antibodies (which I have), there is a risk of miscarriage up to 24 weeks and stillbirth after 24 weeks and which is even greater at then end. So I, like many other Lupus patients, will go in to hospital to have the baby induced at around 38 weeks if it doesn't put in an appearance before then. That's the week after Easter. I am very much hoping that this one decides to show up naturally before that happens - as Munchkin did.
The other thing that happened to me over the last week is that I had an adverse reaction to something I ate. I am absolutely certain that it was gluten from bits of batter in a portion of chips I had from the local chippie. I have had chips from there before and it's been fine - never found anything in them and to be honest I have always considered my gluten thing to be an intolerance rather than an allergy so I don't bother too much about things that 'may contain traces of gluten'. So I didn't worry too much about it and hubby picked out the bits when giving me my chips. However, I didn't sleep well and my digestive system spent the next 24-36 hours rather unhappy. I wasn't able to eat anything all day Tuesday because I felt rotten (and Hubby was away with work from before Munchkin was up until after he went to bed - which didn't help). It made me get to thinking about whether I should try to get myself tested for coeliac disease/gluten sensitivity. I also did a lot of searching on the internet about links between Lupus and gluten sensitivity - with interesting results. But as it's really time I should get Munchkin up I am going to save that discussion for another day.