"Nothing's wrong with you..."

Okay, I made it through an endoscopy and a colonoscopy only to find out that I still don’t know for sure if I have Celiac Disease.

After waking up from the sedative I asked the Doctor if I would have a follow up appointment to discuss the results of the two tests.

“No you are fine, there is nothing wrong with your colon or stomach”, he says.

“Oh I thought you had to get the results back from the biopsy of my stomach?”

“I didn’t do a biopsy, your stomach looks perfect, except a small infection,” he beams proudly.

I am still half asleep trying to think clearly and end up babbling something about the rash I had and what should I do if it comes back.

“Stay away from the wheat and if the rash comes back, go see an allergist and they can do a test,” he says as he sticks out his forearm and pokes it with his finger to demonstrate the test. “I’ll see you in 3 to 4 months to see how that diet is treating you, other wise I’ll see you in 10 to 15 years”, he says waving goodbye and walking away.

To be honest, right now I am wondering if all that went exactly as I just wrote it. Why do people talk to you when you are coming out of sedation, like you are going to remember what you said let alone what they said? Anyway I am sure I am pretty close to what was said.

Two days later I am going over all that has happened in the last 3 weeks. All of a sudden I start laughing out loud. This is a weird reaction to realizing that I had spoken a non-diagnosis into existence. I was laughing to keep from tearing something up and yelling at the top of my lungs. I am telling myself, I’m in control and I had two choices. I probably had more but I was cognoscente of only two. I could fall back into my old rant of how doctors are idiots who like treating people like guinea pigs. Or I could accept the fact that I had a healthy colon and did not have any ulcers, IBS, GERD, or any other digestive malfunction.

I talked to my dear husband and came to the conclusion that I would avoid wheat at all cost. If I happened to get a reaction in the future I would gather all the information I had from all the books I have read and take that information with me to an allergist and demand to be tested correctly for CD.