“Hello,” Cousin says.
“Ooh, hello,” I say down the phone.
“How’re you doing?”
“Ooh, okay,” I say, a bit intimidated. Cousin is Very Smart.
“Well I don’t know if you know I had chronic fatigue?” he says, and my mouth opens.
“No.”
“Well I dropped out for a year,” he says.
“Ooh,” I say, “I’m glad it was only a year, I hear so many horror stories…”
“Well, yes,” he says, “mine wasn’t chronic fatigue in the end.”
“I see,” I say.
“Do you have any like – stomach symptoms?”
“Yes, I was plagued with stomach things all last year,” I say. “I missed my graduation because of them, threw up on my bank manager’s shoes…”
“Right,” he says. “And you’re exhausted and – dizzy?”
“Yep,” I say.
“Hungry?”
“Starved,” I say, “eating more than when I didn’t lie down all day.”
He hmms. “Well what was wrong with me was coeliacs – gluten intolerance,” he says.
My interest is pricked. “And the chronic fatigue went – when you gave it up?”
“Yep,” he said. “Well I was like awfully unfit, but basically I deferred a year and then I was okay after that.”
I smile slightly.
“Get a blood test,” he urges.
I roll my eyes. “I faint after and I get this horrible rash.”
“I got the same thing,” he says, “when I was still eating gluten.”
My ex-almost-mother-in-law is coeliac, she gets her pasta on prescription and makes her own gluten-free bread. She’s one of the busiest, most active people I know. Fingers crossed this is a breakthrough for you x
What is a “tunnet”? Or did you mean “tunnel”?
Cat that sounds lovely. And good name for her! I always wondered what to call ex boyfriend’s mothers who you were quite close to!
I mean tunnel!! xxxx
Ooh, fingers are very, very crossed for you! That would be much more manageable.
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