Hi Y'all, my trip went pretty good I guess......

OMG what a frightening experience!!!!  Did you say it was in Nebraska? My mom is in a retirement community there but while its not gluten free, their dinner menu is reasonably healthy.

If just the air made you sick I wonder how you can plan on going to a lot of places with the same issue. And its a miracle that you didn't gain weight on that much prednisone. YIkes. glad you are home safe.

I remeber that chicken avitar well and liked it!! but i think of you now as a sleek cat, not a plump chicken!!!  glad you are well now..   diane

Thank you Diane.  My parents are close to Nebraska, they're in South dakota.

I don't usually get sick from short airborne wheat exposures because I take Zantac (Histamine 2 blocker) but without it, I react to a cracker in a room.  That said, the nursing home was heavy wheat over several days.  I will not be able to stay there again unless I take a high dose of prednisone first.  Next time I go, I'll stay in a hotel.  This makes me sad because It will limit the time with my parents a bit, but I have to think about my health, so it is what it is, and I should not stay in a place where it takes a ton of medicine just to survive it.  That's just crazy....so a hotel will be planned for the future.

I am shocked that I did not gain weight, and I am still holding my breath with fear. I hope weight gain doesn't show up.  I'm weighing myself constantly with fear.

I don't feel like the plump chicken anymore, so the sleek kitty is better.

south dakota!!  heck that entire state is a wheat field! no wonder you got sick. sorry you are so allergic that you will have to stay elsewhere. but you gotta protect yourself. chickens eat wheat. kitties don't.    diane

 You are right, S.D. Is a wheat field!
It's funny that you mentioned kitties not eating wheat  because Cat food has wheat in it.  I pay a lot for gluten free cat food since it sits out in the kitchen.  

hmmm, i didn't know that. really must make life hard to have to be so vigilent about wheat. your kitties should be very grateful.   diane

....Or the kitties are mad at me because they prefer wheat....

....But I doubt it!

Glad that you are ok!

 Trish, I'm so sorry you had to fight that battle along with fighting for a clean food trip. It sounds totally overwhelming!  You are really yo be commended for how well you did!

Thank you so much Lee.  I'm still shocked that I didn't gain weight......

Many times, my allergies take priority over my sleeve, but I fought to keep my sleeve at just as high of a priority, and I glad for it!  The allergic reaction was depressing, I cried for hours,  and I wanted to console myself with gluten free junk, which would have been a short drive to the grocery store to aquire, but every time I had those feelings, I asked myself why I wanted a particular food.  The answer was usually  unacceptable so, I talked to myself about eating for the wrong reasons.

Several times, I was talking out loud when my sister commented that she thought I was really hungry, not head hunger/or food therapy because it had been 5 hours since we had eaten.....LOL, but everytime I was hungry, I needed to know why, because I was determined to stay on plan and very paranoid because of the prednisone.