I miss....

[BlsdMama]

Fill in the blank and what terrible life circumstance has led you to give it up.
 

 

I miss pie. Gluten free has its benefits and I don’t miss much, but man, I miss pie. 

 

[cintinative]

I wish I lived closer so I could make you a gluten free pie @BlsdMama

I miss having the ability to do Saturdays like I used to--exercise, run errands, cleaning. My neuro condition limits my endurance and by afternoon I am forced to sit. 

 

[PrincessMommy]

you mean a good pie crust?  I'm keto so no wheat for me either.  I make the pie without the crust.  Keto versions are never as good and I'd rather spend my carbs elsewhere.  Still not that same as a traditional pie though.

I miss pizza 

croissant sandwhiches

 

[stephanier.1765]

I miss soda. I really didn't think I would but I do very much. When my dh broke his leg, he couldn't do his mail route any more and which means he is not working until he is healed. So that led us to cutting the fat from everywhere and anywhere we could and out of all that fat, it is soda that I really only miss.

[Alte Veste Academy]

...the metabolism of my youth.

[SounderChick]

I miss running I love running but it doesn't love me.

[Harriet Vane]

I, too, miss the metabolism of my youth.

And pizza. I miss pizza. Literally my favorite food outside of chocolate. Gluten-free and dairy-free sucks.

[Junie]

I miss being without pain.  Between RA and chronic migraines, I am always in pain.  Most of the time I am able to fight through the arthritis, but migraines are hard.

[Shoeless]

I miss sitting on the beach with my grandma.  My grandma was not the sweet, little old lady type of grandma. She cursed like a sailor, chain smoked Pall Malls, and would meet me at a bar to have beers when I was home from college. We spent a lot of summers sitting on the beach, listening to Frank Sinatra and Paul Harvey on the radio.  I miss that. A lot. 

 

[prairiewindmomma]

(Wanted to make sure y'all knew about this: https://namastefoods.com/products/gluten-free-perfect-flour-blend  It makes a very lovely gluten-free pie. My thighs can testify. 🙂) 

[prairiewindmomma]

I miss having a healthy body. I have a pretty good life, but none of my kids remember me before RA.

[hippiemamato3]

I miss feeling proud of being an American.

[fairfarmhand]

My mom.

[Alicia64]

I deeply miss homeschooling. My boys are 17 today and doing Dual Enrollment in the local college (taking full loads etc.)

I used to read aloud to them all the time. I loved it so much. Kids' literature is awesome.

Wendy

 

[Mrs Tiggywinkle]

I miss all the dreams I had for my life.

And I miss living without pain. EDS has really started to take a toll on my body.

[TravelingChris]

1 hour ago, Junie said:

I miss being without pain.  Between RA and chronic migraines, I am always in pain.  Most of the time I am able to fight through the arthritis, but migraines are hard.

THIS,  and then also, I miss having 20/20 or better vision corrected - looks like I am rushing towards getting legally blind with myopia too within ten years.  Plus I very much miss being able to go on walks- this one is new in the last month too as is the realization that I am probably heading towards legal blindness.

[Matryoshka]

2 minutes ago, Patty Joanna said:

Yes.  I miss the group foods--lasagna, spaghetti, pizza.  It's so lame sitting there eating a salad when all that gooey yummy ... oh never mind.  :0)

Is it dairy, gluten, or both you can't have?  The following has cheese, but maybe there's a good sub?

I've recently been making a fairly easy concoction rhat satisfies those cravings...

Zap and scoop a spaghetti squash, put into baking dish. Toss in a liberal amount of frozen chopped peppers and mushrooms, followed by frozen turkey meatballs. Pour a jar of marinara sauce over the top, then top with shredded mozzarella  (if you can't have dairy, are there any decent dairy-free shredded 'cheeses'?)  Bake about 25 min or so.  Really good! Of course you could use fresh veggies and meatballs, but this is a great lazy-night dinner, and totally satisfies that urge for baked ziti or lasagne...

[Matryoshka]

8 minutes ago, Patty Joanna said:

That actually sounds yummy!   

Truth is, though, a lot of what I miss is just being able to eat the same pizza, the same lasagne, as everyone else in the room is eating.   

I can cheat a bit on the wheat and there’s a local pizza chain that has a decent cheese substitute...it gets a little rubbery by the last piece, but I do like going there for lunch with friends because I don’t have to feel so “spayshul”.  😏

Lol, since I'm the cook, I am eating what everyone else is. .. though since my kids are grown, that's really only dh. Good thing he's happy eating anything I cook (and he quite likes that dish). Not sure my kids would have been as enthusiastic...  But honestly enough, it's tasty enough that I would serve it to guests, if I could have any...

[lynn]

I miss my Navy kid.  He's currently in Japan.  I miss his energy in our house.  It's to quiet now.

I miss my Oma and Aunty the strongest women I know.  I miss our conversations and the letter writing.

 

[J-rap]

4 hours ago, Junie said:

I miss being without pain.  Between RA and chronic migraines, I am always in pain.  Most of the time I am able to fight through the arthritis, but migraines are hard.

I'm so sorry about your migraines and chronic pain.  One of my dd's has had a migraine now for 10+ years running.  Her doctor has told her that doctors are starting to think of chronic migraines as an auto immune condition.  My dd also has chronic joint pain, and high ANA numbers.  Have you found anything that helps your migraines?

[J-rap]

I miss the life I thought I'd be living.  (It's still good, but is very different!)  I miss my mother.  I miss my ds so much.  And I really miss my dd, who lives across the ocean and I won't be able to see again for 1-1/2 years since the last time.  Due to Covid.

Edited November 5, 2020 by J-rap

[Junie]

6 minutes ago, J-rap said:

I'm so sorry about your migraines and chronic pain.  One of my dd's has had a migraine now for 10+ years running.  Her doctor has told her that doctors are starting to think of chronic migraines as an auto immune condition.  My dd also has chronic joint pain, and high ANA numbers.  Have you found anything that helps your migraines?

Not really? I tried a few meds that worked, but the side effects were prohibitive (I slept all of the time and couldn't drive.)

I had headaches every day for three years and then they got better for a while.  Just recently they have gotten bad again.  I'm sure that a lot of them are hormone related and I think that some are weather related.

Sorry that your daughter is suffering. 😞

[J-rap]

3 minutes ago, Junie said:

Not really? I tried a few meds that worked, but the side effects were prohibitive (I slept all of the time and couldn't drive.)

I had headaches every day for three years and then they got better for a while.  Just recently they have gotten bad again.  I'm sure that a lot of them are hormone related and I think that some are weather related.

Sorry that your daughter is suffering. 😞

We've found that my dd is sensitive to everything -- varied schedules, food, weather.  Weather is a biggie!  She could almost predict weather with her migraines!  She also has found no meds that help.  (Side effects weren't good.)  Migraines run in my dh's family, although my dh and dd have them the worst.  

[Junie]

2 minutes ago, J-rap said:

We've found that my dd is sensitive to everything -- varied schedules, food, weather.  Weather is a biggie!  She could almost predict weather with her migraines!  She also has found no meds that help.  (Side effects weren't good.)  Migraines run in my dh's family, although my dh and dd have them the worst.  

I can definitely predict weather with my arthritis and I'm starting to see patterns with my migraines, too.

 

[J-rap]

2 minutes ago, Junie said:

I can definitely predict weather with my arthritis and I'm starting to see patterns with my migraines, too.

 

Now that I think of it, another dd gets migraines when there's a full-moon!  

[TravelingChris]

25 minutes ago, Junie said:

Not really? I tried a few meds that worked, but the side effects were prohibitive (I slept all of the time and couldn't drive.)

I had headaches every day for three years and then they got better for a while.  Just recently they have gotten bad again.  I'm sure that a lot of them are hormone related and I think that some are weather related.

Sorry that your daughter is suffering. 😞

Just another thing that may work-  400 mg of riboflavin (B2).  I have had migraines since I was 7.  When I was living in Belgium between 03-06, I started getting much worse and longer ones and was referred to a neurologist.  He looked at my many medications (and I now have about 15 more that have been added) and asked me to try 400 mg of riboflavin and see if it helped.  There had been a study published in the Lancet around that time which found it very efficacious.    It was for me and I was happy just taking more vitamin rather than another med which could interact with all my other meds.  I continued to take it until I no longer had headache migraines- around the time of late perimenopause.  I slowly transitioned to first both headache and abdominal and now I have what seems to be brainstem aura and/or abdominal migraine with no headache.    Apparently, as people get older, they tend to lost the headache but still get migraines.https://www.withcove.com/learn/types-of-migraines   Also, in college, I developed hemiplegic migraines too but they went away and went back to normal migraines.

[ktgrok]

Fried chicken. haven't had any in years due to DS's celiac diagnosis. heck, I miss eating out at restaurants and even the rare fast food trip. Oh, and really good bread. 

I also miss sleeping in and doing nothing. But I have kids now...so..yeah. 

Edited November 5, 2020 by ktgrok

[SKL]

I miss playing the piano and doing puzzles.

[We do have a puzzle going ... someone else started it and I keep getting drawn there ... but the guilt ....]

I miss the fun of playing with little kids whom I could give back to their moms afterward.

I miss going to my parents' house and just sitting around like a bump on a log for a day.

I miss the feeling I used to get when inspired to write poetry and draw.  Where did that go?  Will it return?

[BlsdMama]

On 11/4/2020 at 3:04 PM, rebcoola said:

I miss running I love running but it doesn't love me.

I had a friend’s DH need knee surgery and misses running terribly. I can’t wrap my head around it, but it is very hard for him and he misses it. Can you still take daily walks or is it just not at all the same? (I’m the sort, even pre-disease, that if you see me running down the street, you should run too. Likely, there is a bear, mudslide, or some travesty trailing me.)

On 11/4/2020 at 3:31 PM, prairiewindmomma said:

I miss having a healthy body. I have a pretty good life, but none of my kids remember me before RA.

My littles don’t remember I could run and play games once. It does make a mama sad. ((Hugs))

On 11/4/2020 at 5:39 PM, Matryoshka said:

Is it dairy, gluten, or both you can't have?  The following has cheese, but maybe there's a good sub?

I've recently been making a fairly easy concoction rhat satisfies those cravings...

Zap and scoop a spaghetti squash, put into baking dish. 

I can have all, I just choose a low inflammation diet, so no dairy or gluten, and truly I skip most gf options as they tend to be high carb/sugar added. But, yes on spaghetti squash! I love it!

[pitterpatter]

...the days when holidays seemed magical. (I find them so disappointing as an adult.)

...life before my grandma died.

...life before my father died.

...life before my mother got sick.

...I too miss life before chronic migraine. It's a life thief.