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My theme this year for the #AtoZchallenge<\/a> is #dSavannahDefects<\/b><\/span>, aka “What’s it’s like dealing with #InvisibleIllnesses”. Or, in short, {some of} what’s wrong with me. One letter to go…
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\"Y\"… yawn<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Seriously, peoples. I am exhausted. And I could NOT for the LIFE of me think of a topic for “Y”.<\/p>\n

Even The Mighty<\/a>, the site I have spoken of before that features articles on a whole host of #InvisibleIllnesses, doesn’t even have a disease that starts with “Y”. (Their list of All Conditions A-Z<\/a> ends with “W”.)<\/p>\n

I told one of my writing\/editing buddies that fact, and he (Chris Votey<\/a>) suggested yawn<\/b><\/span>. And I’m totally using it. (Clearly.)<\/p>\n

Did y’all know that a yawn does not actually indicate boredom? That it means that you need oxygen, and it’s your body’s way of getting some for you? That basically, you’re breathing shallow because you’re tired?<\/p>\n

And did you know that they are contagious because, back in ye ole days of the tribe, if one person needed oxygen, then probably the whole tribe needed it?<\/p>\n

howstuffworks.com<\/a> says that the above is only one “theory” as to why people yawn. Another, that I also found interesting, is that you yawn cuz your brain is hot. And that cooler brains work more efficiently. (This might explain the torpor that is felt in Southern summers. Literally no one’s brain can work because it’s too hot.)<\/p>\n

You know what surprised me? Even The New Yorker, <\/em>that bastion of literary… literariness, has an article about yawning. (So I’m in good company.)\u00a0 It’s called “The Surprising Science of Yawning<\/a>“. It says, “Yawning, then, was one of our most primitive, fundamental behaviors”.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, that’s about all I read. Cuz I started yawning.<\/p>\n

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\"dsavannah_defects_noballs\"Now, this is totally not a “Y” topic, but I thought I would share what happened to me yesterday. (Tho ha, ha! Yesterday<\/b><\/span> starts with “Y”. Look at that!)\u00a0 Because it’s totally one of my fun <\/sarcasm> defects.<\/p>\n

I have mentioned in other posts that I am allergic to gluten<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This is a relatively new discovery, and I am still trying to find my way to eating both healthy and enough and what doesn’t have gluten and all that fun stuff.<\/p>\n

For instance, gluten is in more stuff than you would think… so you have to be extra careful about what you eat. Like, even french fries, which are supposed to just be potatoes… well, they can be processed with gluten products and thus can cause health problems.<\/p>\n

I (think) have said that removing gluten from my diet has cleared up a number of issues for me, from tummy problems to weird bumps\/rashes on my arms.<\/p>\n

Well, yesterday at lunch, it being a hot day, I got a chicken salad salad (chicken salad on a bed of lettuce). It came with those little Captain’s Wafers crackers, and I ate four of them suckers without thinking. Habit, I guess. Eat salad, eat crackers.<\/p>\n

Once I figured it out, I didn’t imagine that it would \/ I hoped that it wouldn’t cause me (m)any problems; I expected some stomach issues, but I wasn’t expecting a severe flare of other symptoms that I haven’t fought with in a while, including: running nose, severe costochondritis<\/a> (inflammation) chest pain, tingling in my lips & fingers… none of which are fun. At. All.<\/p>\n

And of course, all of those symptoms are invisible.<\/p>\n

And then I started crying because it’s NOT f*ing FAIR.<\/p>\n

But as I was reminded by someone who has full-on Celiac disease: it takes your body a while to heal from all the bad stuff that gluten has done to it. And I, stupidly, inadvertently, basically poisoned myself. With four little crackers.<\/p>\n

That’ll teach me.<\/p>\n

(In full disclosure, the symptoms flare may also have to do with anxiety around a few things that I am going to have to deal with over the next few days, but still. Not. Fair.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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