A question a day

[galadhir]

When you leave your home, what essentials do you have with you?

It's one big thing - my bag. My bag contains:

1. Car keys
2. House keys
3. Mobility scooter keys
4. Phone
5. Hand gel
6. CBD oil
7. Pack of paper handkerchiefs
8. Noise dampening loops
9. Wallet
10. Pen
11. Notebook
12. Hair-tie
13. Chapstick
14. Three of those silky reusable carrier bags that fold down small
15. Pill box with painkillers that need to be taken three times a day
16. Bottle of Lactase tablets - in case I'm going to be eating anything containing lactose
17. Sheet of Mebeverine tablets - in case the lactase doesn't work or I eat something else that doesn't agree with me. (I have IBS, this happens a lot.)

This is after I reduced the size of my bag and deliberately pared down the contents to essentials because my previous bag was hurting my shoulders.

I don't want to have to think about what I might need every time I go out, so I try to have everything I might need all the time.

Comments

[pattrose]

You have a little bit of everything in your bag. I have IBS also. It sucks. I hope it doesn't bother you too much. Actually I haven't had an attach in almost three weeks. I keep wondering when the other shoe will drop.

[galadhir]

The IBS is mostly under control now, thanks! Have you heard of the Low Fodmap diet? I went on that until I was stable again and now I'm slowly trying to reintroduce foods to see what individual triggers. (Who would have known that the white part of leeks was catastrophic, while the green part of leeks was fine? The Monash university Fodmap people, that's who :) )

[pattrose]

I’m so glad yours is controlled. Mine hasn’t been bad so I’m eating right.

[galadhir]

At least you know whatever you've been eating recently is okay for you :)