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I am really tired of my digestive system not working properly. I was horribly sick with what felt like food poisoning all last week (only food poisoning doesn't usually last that long). Not eating anything is not a sensible long-term solution. It did seem like a good idea for a few days when even a glass of cold water would set off fresh spasms.

I resent that so many comfort foods I remember from my childhood are now things I can't eat because they have dairy. I wouldn't have macaroni and cheese, or creamed spinach, or hot chocolate, when I was sick with a stomach virus (I don't think so, anyhow). But part of my memory of being sick as a little kid is my father making me tea and toast with pepperidge farm white bread, and cutting the toast with a cookie cutter. So of course I looked for that kind of bread when I went to the store, and it has milk in it. It probably always did, I just didn't care, before. At least saltines are safe.

After being sick for a week and a half, I finally reached a point where I felt ok eating bananas, or plain rice, or putting soymilk in mint tea. I even ate an egg, successfully! I was thinking in terms of food poisoning, so I boiled it for 25 minutes, and it had a kind of rubbery toughness to it. I don't know what it means anymore to make easily digestible food when I'm not well.
Then yesterday, I felt well enough to walk down to the farmers' market in the sunshine. I bought baby beets, and summer squash, and cucumbers, and a cookie. I ate the cookie and some of the squash, and it was a complete disaster. I'm right back to feeling as bad as I did 4 days ago.
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