what are you eating?
my coworkers would ask that all the time. and id describe whatever safe food i was eating and watch them not understand.
because normal people just eat. they have rice for lunch and dont think about it again. they grab pasta for dinner and move on with their lives. they eat bread at a restaurant and dont spend the next 48 hours waiting for their stomach to blow up.
i hadnt been that person in four years.
after a round of antibiotics for a sinus infection, everything changed. suddenly rice meant guaranteed bloating for two days. pasta was completely off the table. even some vegetables would set me off. my world got smaller and smaller until i was eating the same ten safe foods every single day.
if youve ever had to calculate whether eating something is worth the consequences... if youve ever told friends you already ate just to avoid a restaurant... keep reading.