My aunt has CC too!
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My aunt has CC too!
I've just flown home to Michigan from Shreveport, LA, where my mom and I were visiting her brother and his wife. My aunt suffers from early Alzheimer's disease, affecting her memory, taste, and smell. We were discussing my MC diagnosis, and it turns out that many years ago, she was also diagnosed with MC! (She is not my blood relative...what are the odds?) I had been reminding her, repeatedly because of her short memory, that I cannot have gluten, so I was flabbergasted that she continues to eat gluten, although she says she is "lactose intolerant". I guess, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" applies here, but my jaw dropped when she said that her MC still causes D, but "it's alright because it keeps me thin"! Perhaps she's achieved a kind of remission, but she's too set in her ways to change her lifestyle to adapt to her disease. My cousin (sitting behind her) was shaking her head during our conversation, implying "don't say anything, it won't help"! Sigh.
Pat C.
"Don't sweat the small stuff.
P.S. (It's all small stuff!)"
"Don't sweat the small stuff.
P.S. (It's all small stuff!)"
. I imagine there are many people all around us with MC, but they are too embarrassed to talk about it, or they call it "IBS".
That's sad, in view of the fact that her long-term untreated gluten-sensitivity is probably responsible for her dementia. 
Tex
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.