Thank you! This is my first and I've been putting it off for a looooong time. After I'd been stable on Heather's plan for about a year, I told my boyfriend that if I stayed stable for five years, then I'd THINK about having a wedding. I didn't want to get married without having my dream wedding and I certainly never felt like I could make it through one. I do remember feeling very sad that I couldn't even imagine being able to do the simple things that my friends were complaining about, like going to cake tastings!
I still have to deal with managing the symptoms we all have to manage and I do have a few attacks a year, but it finally clicked with me that being "stable" meant having control of my ibs instead of the other way around. For a long time, I kept waiting to get "stable" thinking that stability meant that the IBS and all it's accompanying symptoms would go completely away if I did everything right. That was frustrating. As we all know, there is no cure.
Well, I'm still one of the few that strictly follows the guidelines and I've never cheated (yep, not even once) and my boyfriend never forgot that five-year goal I had professed! We're getting married on our tenth anniversary of living together and it sounds like our date is really close to yours. Congratulations, good luck and thanks for the support! I'm here if you need any reciprocation.
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