diagnosis

at the end of july, i started noticing ,  body was acting different. i was experiencing some digestive symptoms (not major, but different), nausea and fatigue. i waited until last week to go to the doctor to make sure it wasn't a fluke. well, it wasn't. the results from my blood test say i'm positive for celiac disease. now, i have to have a biopsy to prove this, but i'm fairly certain it's accurate.

i'm still reeling from shock. it really was like someone turned a switch on and all of the sudden, my body couldn't process gluten. i bet the GI doctor will give me a lot more information next week. that's what i mostly want-information.

i'm not terribly worried about the diet change; however, i do feel a great sense of injustice by that fact that i'm already dealing with eye and hearing trouble and now i have to worry about my diet! and...i don't want to have to pay for expensive gluten-free food! this is good in that it means i won't be baking cookies every week (i think).

it's all kinda crazy. the fatigue is what's really getting me-i can handle some gas and stomach aches but i hate feeling like i need to nap every afternoon and go to bed by 9 pm (which i don't do, for the record...most of the time). i have to keep eating gluten until my doctor's consultation and who knows after that? life is full of surprises, that's for sure!

AUGUST

august was so fun because we got to spend it with much of cory's family. cory's grandparents, who we love dearly, came out to nashville as part of a two week long trip to their high school reunion in ohio. it was such a fun weekend with them. 

we went to chin cline raattanooga to see chicamawgwa and the chattanooga battlefields. we got to eat cake at my favorite city cafe diner. we got to ride the incline railway (super steep). it was so hot and humid that weekend. of course we had BBQ! it was so nice to spend time with the hill grandparents. 

at the end of august, we flew to maryland for the weekend to celebrate cory's dad's birthday! chad and candice got to meet levi for the first time. we went to the national zoo and had delicious seafood on the potomac river. we got to ride the big ferris wheel on the river as well. on saturday, we went to the air and space museum and have yummy burgers and birthday cake. one of the downsides of cory's job, is the one week of vacation time first year employees get, so we have a lot of weekend trips. wish we could've spent more time with nana and papa!