Can a person develop Celiac as an adult?

This is what the rash looks like. I never could get a good picture, but it looks exactly like this other person from the internet. It's only on one elbow.

Oh gosh, sorry you're dealing with so many food intolerances. Have you managed to figure anything out? And were doctors helpful? Antibiotics are so tough. We didn't know back then that we should have been building up his gut post-antibiotics. I'm not sure it would even really work, considering how diverse gut bacteria are, and how limited probiotics are. I do hope they do as many workups as possible! Since he never goes, this might be it for a while... particularly if he has a negative experience. I found out about this practice through my mother's doctor, whom we adore. So hopefully it's at least neutral, trending toward positive!

I think it's great too 🙂 I could go, but I wonder if he would feel more awkward, or if the doc would feel more awkward? If I go, I'll have a long list of topics to address and won't leave till we get to them all 😄

That's interesting - we WERE gluten-free for about 6 years, strictly, but it was for me. I've had my own joint paints for about 8 years now (wrists, fingers, feet), but after seeing doctors and spending a ton of $$, I gave up. Decided to be gluten free to see if it would help. DH just went along for the ride with gluten free. When we moved about a year ago, we started eating gluten again (ack!). I stopped recently, because every time I eat it, I feel exhausted. DH has occasionally had gluten every couple weeks or so for about a year. The rash is only on one elbow, and it's more of a solid mass rather than blisters. I thought the dermatitis herpetiformis rash was more blistery?

Oh man, that's so true. You have to be a teacher and a mind-reader!

Awesome!! I can think of some people at my school who would like this/benefit from it.

Also keep in mind that when a kid says something is "soooooo boring!" it may be code for "too hard for me."

I found this: https://www.ortonacademy.org/location/online/ But I can't figure out where the sign up page is...?

Well guys, my DH is finally going to the doctor as soon as we can get an appointment. He is VERY opposed to doctors (I think he's mostly just nervous), and he hasn't been to a regular doctor's appointment since college. He has gone to urgent care a number of times over the years, but no run of the mill appointments. We think it's a possibility that he has Lyme. His knees and hips started hurting (mildly) a couple weeks ago, waxing and waning. No rash, no tick bite that we can see, but those suckers can be tiny. He is going to be tested for Lyme, hopefully. I'm so glad he's finally going in, though, because he's been having stomach issues for YEARS, like at least 5 years. It started after a period of intense stress (finishing PhD and job hunting, ugh), combined with a few round of pretty serious antibiotics. If my googling is correct, I'd guess he has SIBO, the methane kind. Constipation and bloating have been around ever since, sometimes better and sometimes not. If he eats lower FODMAP and lower histamine foods, he feels better, so I think there's an imbalance of gut bacteria in there, and has been for a long time. BUT! He's also had a weird skin thing. A patch of raised, thick, red and itchy skin on his elbow, about the size of a quarter. This has popped up and gone away three times now. It looks like psoriasis without the scaling, if that's possible. He said it's terribly itchy. Now with the joint pain, I'm concerned about psoriatic arthritis. That would really, really be a bummer. Anyway. I'm hoping he really likes the doc at this practice (she looks smart and adorable!). It's not a hospital, so hopefully it'll be less scary for him. I've been stressed about his health for a long time now, especially since everything is such a guessing game without *actual* information! For a smart guy, he sure doesn't apply his brain to his own health situation! I hesitate to start the AIP diet if it's not going to help. That's a serious commitment, and I worry about making his food intolerances even worse. Maybe he will listen to the doc's advice once he's actually in the office, and we can finally get some things figured out!

I have a long, narrow living room, too! I hate it! What were the home designers thinking.....? I can't figure out a way to make it look good. Sorry you're in a book situation!

Well... I too have wanted to stab myself in the eye with a pencil numerous times this week! I don't know about accelerated side of things, but from a learning disabilities side, I would say to back up to what she feels REALLY comfortable doing. No matter how far behind "grade level" that is, go back there and do some review. You will both feel better to do something she has mastered. Then you have to make a plan. I find all curriculums/workbooks frustrating, because the teaching sequence never makes sense to me, or just doesn't fit with my students' needs. The progression is inflexible, because they review previously taught concepts, so you're locked in to learning ALL of it, even if some topics seem like overkill for your student. You can go to the common core website and look up the standards for her grade. Make a list, and then make a plan. You can do grade-level standards with easier numbers, so her number sense can shine and her math facts won't slow her down as much. For example, with my 5th graders, we're going 1 times 3 digit multiplication, but I have a lot of 5s, 2s, and 1s in there. So rather than doing 486 x 9, we're doing 521 x 3. They learn the concept and procedure, but don't get dragged down by looking up every single fact. We are constantly reviewing, so I just up the difficulty slowly when I think they're ready. (Sometimes they're not, and I find out soon enough, and have to back off for a while.) The converting of yards to feet sounds really taxing from a working memory standpoint. Does your DD have any working memory difficulties? If you must do yards to feet, could you make a really long line of masking tape along a carpet, for example, then figure out the yards and feet, physically? Your DD could draw colored marks for each yard, and then segment each yard into feet.

Nope, no Legos. Today went better... unveiled the behavior plan, with immediate and long term rewards, as well as a potential consequence, and we actually got some stuff done! Fingers crossed tomorrow isn't the exact opposite 😎

Thanks for these links! Excited to watch.

Yes, I do 🙂

This would be awesome, but the schedule is so jammed that there isn't any free time at all 😞 It's something that really bums me out about elementary this year... suddenly the level of classwork seems so difficult, and the topics so difficult and boring, with no time to just BE. It's go go go, and for kids that need chill time, it's really crappy. Maybe I can figure out a time when they could miss something. They miss their regular math class completely. It didn't make sense for them to go to 30 minutes with me, and then 30 minutes in regular ed... it would be so confusing. Lucky for them, they have lunch right after math! Life does suck when you have a disability. I'm frustrated that reg ed teachers say, "Yes, I know it's hard and frustrating for them, but that's not an excuse to do X (backtalk, stomp around, throw a pencil on floor, etc)." And I'm like... well... they're just little humans, and they're facing HUGE academic and behavioral expectations. It's nuts! Can we please go back to 1995??? I spent most of my elementary time building dioramas, free reading, and writing stories. I'm sad that these kids don't have time to just BE.

I know - I love it though! 🙂

Definitely.... all of them, to all of the above.

I can do that - they're motivated by little things as well, like playing a game of War. Free time or time with me would also be a motivator. I'll think it over - need to create some kind of system where they can be rewarded, but all three are working when they should be working. Yep... you nailed it. They are all sweet kids, but I think a combination of competition, low self-esteem, and lack of social thinking is contributing greatly! I'd love to do this, but the problem is, I just need to get some teaching time in there. Not that there's much teaching going on with all the fighting, so... hmm. Good question. I'm not. I could get all of their teachers on board, potentially. I only see them for 1 hour of the day, unfortunately; I'm not their full-time teacher. Haha.... yes. But there seems to be a main instigator and then two Junior Instigators 😄 ALL of the above! Sometimes they can work independently, sometimes the work is too hard (independent and with me), sometimes it's too easy and they're bored, ugh! I know everyone says a teacher should be able to teach a small group well, but maybe I'm just not that great at it. Teachers often say to me, "Well, I have to differentiate for 22 during every lesson!" and then look at me, like I don't know how easy I've got it. Yeah, we do things like that when stuff is going south... when everyone is just too emotional to focus, we just talk. Oh yeah, I'm all for extra gym! Just not before my class. Too sweaty!! 😄 I wish! Maybe dodgeballs instead 😄 I'm thinking Blackjack! It's in Ronit Bird's book, so... That's a fantastic idea. Reward for good behavior = game time (fun), high enough points means whole class gets reward (motivated to work together). I love it!

I'll try the positive reinforcement first, and then see if they can stay on task with that. It's gonna have to be more reinforcement than praise! I hate buying trinkets for students, though. It'll have to be something else.

Usually I'd agree with you, and it's true for one or two kids at a time... but with three, they are more motivated by bugging each other.

Hmmm. This is interesting. Do you mean compete against each other, or against themselves? My biggest problem is when all three are sitting together, it's a lot of arguing... that or a whole lot of silliness. But mostly arguing. They think it's funny/a good idea to point out something someone's doing wrong, but they absolutely cannot take it when someone else does it to them.

Not yet, but I will! I can use basketball time in the gym as a reward. Also, not yet. Need to work on that. Not really, but it would be helpful to me if they could, because then I could work with 1 for 15 minutes, and then with 2 for 15 minutes, since they have some different needs in math. Definitely! I can also ask our behaviorist to help with devising a system. I would love that. I usually have a walk or gym time for 10 minutes in the middle, because 60 minutes without a break is really too long. The trouble is, they often come in out of sorts from specials like art or French, and it takes a while to calm down.

Without going into details, I just need to say: WOW! I had no idea that 10/11 was such an emotional year for boys. My 10/11 yo students (just the boys!) are having ALL the emotions this year. I read something similar in a Chat thread, and yup. I get it now! In one of my small groups, I have three 10 year old boys, and boy oh boy. It is a whirlwind. They all have fairly severe ADHD, LDs in math, potential ASD or language processing difficulties, and it's so difficult to get anything done! They notice everything the others are doing (wrong), point it out, snipe at each other, get hurt feelings, and so on. We have good days and bad days. This is math. They NEED to learn. They are smart kids, and can learn. We can't spend an hour a day on a therapy session. I need a better structure. I have three kids, and I've been doing some things all together, and some things in groups of 2 or 1, with the off kids doing independent work or playing a game together. I think we can accomplish a lot in an hour with a more effective structure... but what? I have one big table, a smaller table to the side, some beanbags, and even a space behind a divider, if they could work independently without any input from me. Which they could, if they would stop shouting out to their friends from behind the divider. Advice welcome!

Good question - maybe 20 emails a day, with 5 or so that need attention. It wouldn't be good with 100 emails a day, agreed!