Gotta love Mom!
Mar. 14th, 2005 08:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
trd9091I've had several health concerns lately and I've been giving consideration to the vegetarian in me. I still have lots to learn, so if anyone has advice, I'm all ears. But in the meantime, I had to share this crazy story...
So I've had problems with milk forever. Doctors can't figure out if it's lactose or allergy related because I have too many other issues and frankly if it isn't killing me at this point, I'm pretty tolerant. My point is, this is far from a new thing.
Anyway, I'm at the grocery Saturday and I'm buying my first ever carton of soy milk. I've gotta tell you, this is quite intimidating. But, I got the vanilla because it seemed like it would go in my coffee better (and you know I like coffee with my milk and sugar). But anyway I get it home and not only do I love it, but I can eat whole bowls of cereal early in the morning and not be sick! This is so awesome. I called Mom last night and was telling her all about this and she says 'yeah, you had soy milk when you were a baby... you couldn't have regular milk.' She went on to tell me that I got violently ill on regular formula and the doctor switched me to soy. Somewhere in the mix, my family just assumed I got over it and went on to fussing at me to "finish your milk!"
Meanwhile, I'm sitting on this end of the phone simply stunned. I finally have to ask 'Mom, with all the problems I've had, do you think you might have mentioned this to me at some point in the past twenty-some years?!!?'
While I've not had a 'violent' reaction to milk lately, I have stopped eating breakfast over the years because I often get sick from it - but now that I think about it my breakfasts most often included things like cereal, oatmeal (with cream), etc.... hmmmmm. (okay, so we never said I was among the brightest)
Now I'm just wondering what else she thought I'd outgrow...
So I've had problems with milk forever. Doctors can't figure out if it's lactose or allergy related because I have too many other issues and frankly if it isn't killing me at this point, I'm pretty tolerant. My point is, this is far from a new thing.
Anyway, I'm at the grocery Saturday and I'm buying my first ever carton of soy milk. I've gotta tell you, this is quite intimidating. But, I got the vanilla because it seemed like it would go in my coffee better (and you know I like coffee with my milk and sugar). But anyway I get it home and not only do I love it, but I can eat whole bowls of cereal early in the morning and not be sick! This is so awesome. I called Mom last night and was telling her all about this and she says 'yeah, you had soy milk when you were a baby... you couldn't have regular milk.' She went on to tell me that I got violently ill on regular formula and the doctor switched me to soy. Somewhere in the mix, my family just assumed I got over it and went on to fussing at me to "finish your milk!"
Meanwhile, I'm sitting on this end of the phone simply stunned. I finally have to ask 'Mom, with all the problems I've had, do you think you might have mentioned this to me at some point in the past twenty-some years?!!?'
While I've not had a 'violent' reaction to milk lately, I have stopped eating breakfast over the years because I often get sick from it - but now that I think about it my breakfasts most often included things like cereal, oatmeal (with cream), etc.... hmmmmm. (okay, so we never said I was among the brightest)
Now I'm just wondering what else she thought I'd outgrow...
