You sensitive to nightshades (tomatoes, potatoes, eggplant) too? Those have nicotine or a very similar alkaloid in them as well (as does cauliflower). Very common IBS triggers, especially if eaten in large quantities. It takes about 20 pounds of eggplant to equal the nicotine of a single cigarette, but if your gut is particularly sensitive to nicotine, it can cause issues.
I don’t like eggplant. I love tomatoes, but I can’t eat them on an empty stomach. I eat them in sauces along with pasta, or other things that tend to work well as “binders.” I love salad, but I can’t eat a lot of it. I always thought it was the vitamin C in tomatoes that made them hard on the gut.
Potatoes I do pretty well with, but that’s because they have so much starch, and starch is really good for me, like I said.
I have a fairly mild case of IBS, but I have to keep Immodium on hand the way some people have to keep ibuprofen or Benadryl in the medicine case. Some people’s symptoms border on Crohn’s or Celiac disease; I’m not nearly that bad.
While I’m not sure I would approve of such strict policies, I am strongly in favor of being blunt and precise. E.g. no more “You need to live a healthier lifestyle”, “Eat more vegetables!” or “Don’t stay up so late!”. Tell me what a “healthier lifestyle” involves. Are you referring to seeking greater life balance in work, fun, exercise, social interaction, study, etc. in a broad sense, or is “healthier lifestyle” a polite code word for “quit smoking”, “quit McDonalds”, “watch no more than one hour of TV a day”, “Enroll in our Healthy Living Track and Field Running Development Course”, or “Follow the Kansas Department of Heath’s Diet Guide and the nutritional and portion size messages found therein that hath been inscribed thereupon for the benefit of thineself and kindred unto the end of days, for it is your new Bible”?
This this this x10. And not just for medical issues too - in general. E.g. at work, don’t tell me that I have “performance issues”. Tell me specifically what the problem is. Am I not returning things quickly enough? Am I returning things promptly, but full of problems? Am I not helping others to the degree that you wanted? Am I helping others too much and contributing to a culture of laziness and “Just call robert_columbia”? Am I using poor grammar in technical documentation? Am I not writing enough? Am I writing too much and boring customers out of their mind with needless details? Am I not stroking the boss’s ego enough? Did I fail to understand that the “Optional after-hours technical training program” is really a “requirement” because “everyone is expected to exceed expectations”? At some jobs, getting your work done early and leaving early was a “performance” problem. Dammit you were supposed to find more work, not leave!
I can’t “improve my performance” unless I know what the standard is. Why won’t you tell me?
She doesn’t have a low IQ per se, she just isn’t really good at picking up implied things or social cues. She has worked jobs where no one with a low IQ could have gotten by, like financial manager of a small department store chain(although this was more than 30 years ago).
Additionally although she sounds like a fluent native speaker, she learned English as an adult, so she still gets tripped up by idioms and slang and round about language.
I asked my sister what she thought the doctor meant, and she said she thought he was preparing my mom for the outcome of dying during the surgery due to anesthesia. That is what she thought the “long full life” thing was about.