It's not hideously bad today but I hurt so damn ... regularly now

awww, I'm sorry

there anything that can be done?

8[

nope, just have to tough it out

if it gets really bad I have to have surgery - surgery in this case is pretty bad

fuck. I hope it doesn't come to that, but at the same time that means you have to continue to be in pain now =( that sucks

I mean ... basically if my intestines keep closing up, part of them needs to come out

you never get that bit back, and it doesn't stop the disease progression

this story ends with you shitting into a bag attached to your hip if it gets bad enough

DX

It's really bad because my dad is ... just not as helpful as he could be

so it's kind of... pointless unless absolutely necessary

I really need to eat boiled chicken and potatoes like every day

but he whines about it

b/c that's fucking boring

but .... every time he feeds me something with more than like a quarter handful of vegetables I feel like shit for 2 days

do you cook separate meals for yourself?

no, I just don't have the energy for that

I work 8 hours and I'm out of the house almost 11

Might have to make a big meal of that on the weekends and put them into homemade TV dinners to eat during the week?

ug, fuck you caffeine I have to try to sleep, why is it 11?!

ah, yeah :/

but yes, that's what I have to do but ... jesus christ it sucks

um, not be overly rude about your family situation, but boring doesn't compare to shitting in a bag. Your dad needs to get over himself

if that's what you have to eat, that's what you have to eat

and I agree with evilbo....You may have to just kinda give up on the concept of 'food' for a while and just eat to survive

it sounds extreme but I'd blenderize the chicken and potatoes in a big batch and kinda drink it for my meal if that was what my choices were

Well, a TV dinner thing doesn't have to be gross... my parents always make homemade ones by putting leftovers in those plastic trays and

freezing them

greenworldgirl I completely agree with you but my dad ... he cooks and he just ... doesn't seem to appreciate the situation fully

he doesn't really seem to understand the the endgame of 'Katie frequently feels bad' is 'Katie shits in bags for the rest of her life'

I'm not trying to be overly emotional but I see this with my sister and her bf too. I wish it weren't common, but people. IDK man.

I'm going to sit him down this weekend

vegetables have to stop, basically, until my Crohns is back under control

I know that sounds so like ... 5 years old, but I legitimately like a lot of veggies

you're absolutely right though that they don't seem to understand. When her bf's grandma was in the hospital they met a 40 year old man

there with her condition in a wheel chair, and he gave them a long alk about prevention- but it still hasn't sunk in with him.

*I* understand pervention

no, I understand. There were foods I liked too that I had to give up.

and your situation is worse than mine.

I'm not the one who drunk himself into diabetes, HBP and kidney failure

but, I guess that's what makes me mad, it's always going to be worse for you. Like the diet is the least of your problems.

But he's all 'my feet hurt I can't cook complicated things'

'I can't cook us two meals' 'you already only eat chicken'

but if you can, I'd go to the simplest possible diet for a few weeks, and then just vegetables to taste them, not as an actual serving

Yeah. I think this week i'm just going to eat microwave meals and ramen until he gets the point

yes this is actually a 'good' diet for me

orz

they are never contaminated, they're low oil, they are mild, etc

You need to come to my house 8[ We eat turkey and chicken almost exclusively

evilbo, ilu bb, but ... other people's cooking kills me like death note

eeek, I understand

like I have *never* gone over to someones house, eaten something, and not felt really bad afterwards

and it's not even like 'lol we put bacon in that' it's just other people's cooking

ah :/

when I go over to game (w/ optional dinner) at other people's houses I pre-eat

I'm just frustrated b/c I had this talk with him like 2 weeks ago

and I've been in a constant state of feeling bad that whole time

off and on

ug, really gotta pretend I can sleep, was trying to relax my back with a shower but largely failed

*huuugs*

goodnight KT, I hope things start getting better