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Dairy and Soy Allergy – “Safe” Fast Food

Posted on September 6, 2019September 6, 2019 by Eve SullivanLeave a comment

As an adult recently diagnosed with a dairy and soy allergy (on top of ulcerative colitis and mastocytic enterocolitis, and environmental allergies to just about every tree and grass growing in California), I’ve had a hell of a time modifying my diet. Here at the start of things, I see soy is hiding in a lot more places than you would expect. (C’mon… wheat bread? really? why does that need soy?!) It’s proving a challenge to do weekly meal planning for a family of four that excludes BOTH ingredients. But it’s good to think about what exactly it is I’m shoving in my mouth.

"Edamame" photograph by Zesmerelda at https://www.flickr.com/photos/48889116659@N01/1231786582 (CC BY-SA 2.0 license)
NO MORE TASTY SOYBEANS FOR ME.

This week I reached my limit just figuring out breakfast and dinner for the week and completely gave up on planning lunches for myself other than a head of lettuce and some soy-free vinaigrette. I thought it would be easy to find some quick workday lunch options at local restaurants, but boy was I wrong. NOT EVEN SALAD IS SAFE. Soy and milk ingredients pop up in burger buns, too! So I’ve been working on a list of “safe” options at local fast food joints near work.

TL;DR? Go for the Fresco Menu at Taco Bell.

Burger King

  • Classic Grilled Dog
  • Chicken Nuggets
  • Chicken Fries
  • Hash Browns
  • French Fries
  • Applesauce

Carl’s Jr.

  • Kid’s Hamburger
  • Natural Cut Fries
  • CrissCut Fries
  • Hash Brown Nuggets

In and Out

  • Protein Style with mustard & ketchup instead of spread
  • French Fries
  • That’s it. No more milkshakes.

Jack in the Box

  • Side Salad
  • Low Fat Balsamic Vinaigrette Dressing (does contain soybean oil)
  • Spicy Corn Sticks
  • French Frieds
  • Onion Rings
  • Potato Wedges
  • Seasoned Curly Fries
  • Stuffed Jalapenos
  • Hash Brown

Taco Bell

  • Hashbrown
  • Cinnamon Twists
  • Fresco Bean Burrito
  • Fresco Burrito Supreme – Chicken
  • Fresco Burrito Supreme – Steak
  • Fresco Soft Taco – Shredded Chicken
  • Fresco Soft Taco – Steak
  • Black Beans
  • Black Beans & Rice
  • Chips and Guacamole
  • Chips and Pico de Gallo
  • Chips and Salsa
  • Seasoned Rice
  • Border Sauce – Diablo

Wendy’s

  • Jr Hamburger / Kids’ Hamburger
  • Spicy Chicken Nuggets
  • Crispy Chicken Nuggets
  • Spicy Chicken Sandwich
  • Homestyle Chicken Sandwich

The main takeaway here is that Taco Bell is the real winner if you want variety in your Soy-and-Dairy-Free fast food. Their Fresco menu is generally touted as among the best lower calorie options for fast food chains. (I really wish more table-service restaurants included ingredient/allergen information with their menus, though.)

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Intellectual discourse.

Posted on June 7, 2019June 7, 2019 by Eve SullivanLeave a comment

You can blame (or credit) Sam Sykes for inspiring this exchange I had with my twin today.

Me talking to a professional acquaintance: “Hello there! I’ve been truly impressed by your work and would love to collaborate with you sometime!”
To a colleague: “Pleasure to see you again. Let’s talk soon!”
To a friend: “sup fartlord, im high as balls lets make comics”

— Sam Sykes (@SamSykesSwears) June 7, 2019

Lillith
hey
sup fartlord
should I call u fartlord
or is fartlady more appropriate

Eve
❤
you may call me the Dark Queen of Farts
Dark Queen of Fart

Lillith
Darkfartqueen

Eve
XVDarkFartQueenVX

Lillith
drk

Eve
yes
yes yes

Lillith
XvDrkFartQueenvX
XxQueenFarterxX

Eve
XCashForFartsX

Lillith
XDrkFartX

Eve
XDrkFarterX

Lillith
VvDrkFrankFartervV
::FARTS::

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Feeling queasy.

Posted on May 31, 2019May 31, 2019 by Eve SullivanLeave a comment

It seems like my ulcerative colitis isn’t really under good control right now, so I have another colonoscopy (with all the preparatory joy that entails) scheduled for next week.

Anyway, contemplating my health, my twin came up with a new Lilism. She texted me with this ditty while I was in the loo; I thought it was great, so I almost immediately reshared it on Twitter. (She wasn’t going to take credit for it on social media, but it worked out anyway. HA!)

Apologies to The Eagles.

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Just say no to shrimp.

Posted on May 2, 2019May 2, 2019 by Eve SullivanLeave a comment

Inspired by the headline “Scientists stumped as to why shrimp is testing positive for cocaine” – a Lilism to the tune of Just to Get High, by Nickelback.

He was a Brit Shrimp
swole up like A Blimp
ODd on everything
like ketamine
when sewers overflowed
Shrimp ate the cocaine
from waters leak-ain’
he did the party drugs
with shrimpy thugs
and then some tramadole
But I can still remember what that shrimp looked like
WHEN I FOUND HIM IN THE SEWER IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIIIIIIIIGHT

2019 is turning out to be a really weird year.

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Worldbuilding with Lilisms

Posted on March 21, 2019March 21, 2019 by Eve SullivanLeave a comment

This discussion happened while I was brainstorming a new monster idea with my twin.

Lillith
a thought train resembles Thomas the Tank Engine with a brain in its face and set on bestial clawed wheels

Eve
DERAIL! DERAIL!

Lillith
lolol
WELCOME TO MY NIGHTMARE

Lillith
wait
wait
you know how a drider is a drow with the body of a spider
how about a drasp, a drow with the body of a wasp

Eve
that’s horrible

Lillith
OR BETTER YET
A DRWASP
A DWARF

Eve
no no <aloud: NO, NO!>

Lillith
WITH THE BODY OF A WASP
A DWASP
SAY IT

Eve
<aloud, slowly: dwaaasp -ogod>

Lillith
Duuhh-wasp
alskjdgha’y8

Eve
NO
IT FAILS THE “SAY IT FIRST” test

Lillith
Yes
yes yES YES

Eve
god damn it lillith

Lillith
oh GOD GUYS IT’S A DWASP
RUN
IT WILL STING OUR ANKLES

Eve
god damn it stop

Lillith
AND THEN WE WILL HAVE SWOLLEN PREGNANT LADY CANKLES

Eve
DINT NAJEHTAWET
DO NOT MAKE ME COME OVER THERE

Lillith
IT MAY HAVE FAILED THE SAY IT FIRST TEST BUT IT PASSED THE DINT NAJEHTAWET TEST

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Wherein Eve learns new words.

Posted on February 20, 2019February 20, 2019 by Eve SullivanLeave a comment

It’s always beneficial to expand one’s vocabulary. With that in mind, I would refer my readers to this wonderful Wikipedia article:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_profanity

I could work several of these into everyday conversation:

  • Mitä helvettiä = What the hell?
  • Painu hiiteen = Go to hell.
  • Hitto = Damn.
  • Molopää = Dickhead
  • Vittu tätä paskaa = Fuck this shit.

My absolute favorite is “perkele,” mostly because it’s fun to roll them Rrrrrrrs. It’s also the only Finnish swear word my mother taught me. The wiki article notes: “When used to express discontent or frustration, perkele often suggests that the speaker is determined to solve the problem, even if it will be difficult. It is associated with sisu, which in turn is an iconic Finnish trait. “

Acknowledging the occasionally dubious accuracy of Wiki articles, Finnish profanity is a wonderful rabbit hole to fall into, full of new and interesting phrases with great literal translations.

"Winter and Snow - Finland/Oulu" by Mika Kangas
When you’re up to your ears in snow, you need a good vocabulary to express your dismay with the situation.

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Postcards from Skyrim

Posted on February 8, 2019February 8, 2019 by Eve SullivanLeave a comment

Last night in Skyrim, I, Vihera the Nord, finally gained audience with the Jarl of Haafinger in Solitude, Queen Elisif the Fair. I did this by wearing some fancy clothes that did not suit me at all, but seemed to impress the court. After all, everyone who is anyone shops at Radiant Raiment in Solitude, amirite? 1) Despite three layers of fine clothing, a fine hat and boots, I felt stark staring naked without my bow and 2) I LOOKED LIKE A TOOL. Fucking milk drinkers. One’s worth and skill in battle are not evidenced by simple cloth.

Really, Solitude isn’t that bad. The weather is nice, and they behead traitors there to welcome travelers to the city. They have a good smithy there. And they’ll call ANYONE a bard. Even me.

After I murdered a bunch of necromancers who were trying to resurrect The Wolf Queen, Vol. 1-??, Elisif’s easily-impressed Steward stopped being such a dick to me and told his Queen that I was very helpful. Clearly feeling she could now trust this rather provincial Nord, Her Highness Elisif sent me to drop off the late High King Torygg’s fancy tootle-horn at a shrine to (gasp) Talos. (I guess old Torygg was hiding some skeletons in his closet!)

Amused by this naughty little secret mission, I stomped off to the shrine, collecting a few more wolf pelts and a several score of cabbages for my collection. I’m running out of places to put them, but any true daughter or son of Skyrim knows that cabbages are almost as important as cheese.)

On my way back to Solitude, I was waylaid by some broad with the Dark Brotherhood. Apparently word has gotten out about my little moment of rage at the orphanage in Riften and the Brotherhood is desperate for recruits. I had another little moment in some abandoned shack and gutted some screeching harridan.

Anyway, Elisif was SO happy about turning a proud Nord warrior into a courier that she told me to buy a fancy house in her city and made me a Thane. All in all, I was pleased for the opportunity to move my husband (a rather boring but skilled blacksmith from Riften) and two adopted children into a fancy house in Solitude. The one in Whiterun was getting crowded, and Falkreath is a bit too rural for the boy.

How you like THEM cabbages, Mikael?!

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Today’s Mood: Cynical

Posted on January 18, 2019January 18, 2019 by Eve SullivanLeave a comment

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Pain and fear.

Posted on December 20, 2018December 20, 2018 by Eve SullivanLeave a comment

Some thoughts I’d add to the linked post: “Paying for Crohn’s disease treatment in America is more stressful than my symptoms”

First, pain and fear are powerful motivators. Once you’ve had a really painful or frightening experience with your health, you’ll do almost anything you can to avoid it happening again.

Example? I struggled with some excessively large kidney stones when I was 27 and have kind of lived in fear ever since; I don’t want to ever encounter that sort of pain again. Since then I’ve been fanatical about drinking plenty of water to stave off forming sedimentary rocks inside my body. 10 glasses of water a day, no matter what. More if I’ve been sweating or sick.

I subsequently learned that it’s a problem with the way my kidneys function and it doesn’t really matter how much water I drink, but I still drink a ton of water. The terrifying trip to the emergency room and two subsequent surgeries left a lasting impression.

More to the point, for the last 12 years of my life, I’ve been focused on avoiding ulcerative colitis flares and the accompanying pain, nausea, and 20-times-per-day trips to the toilet. There is something viscerally horrifying about seeing your life literally bleed away out your ass.

I learned to skip eating so I could drive to work and get through the day without having to sprint to the public restroom. I swallowed almost 20 pills a day and suffered the indignity of nightly 5-ASA enemas. I learned what “roid rage” really was. I stopped dining out and refused to travel for the fear of not being able to find a toilet if I needed it.

It took me almost a decade of working through one treatment after another – and a bankruptcy from the costs of copayments for medical treatment and lost wages from missed work – to realize that the safe, easy and convenient drugs weren’t working for me.

I was thrilled when I learned a combination of Remicade (a biologic drug) and 6-MP (a chemotherapy drug) did work for me.

Remission is great, but it’s not cheap or convenient or easy or even particularly safe. I wholly appreciate having benefits that cover the 45 tablets of 6-MP, four vials of Remicade, saline, IV pump, tubing, pre-meds and 4 hours of a home nurse that I go through every six weeks. It’s well worth the $800/month that I pay in premiums every month

I wouldn’t be able to afford it without health insurance.

I don’t think the stress of worrying how I’m going to pay for treatment is worse than the disease itself. But it is absolutely wretched being tied to a dead-end job in an unsafe location because you need health insurance to pay for treatment to keep you alive.

It is wonderful having a job with health insurance, but I wish I had the freedom to change jobs. I wish health care was considered a human right in this country.

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Kill 10 Rats, a Lilism

Posted on December 13, 2018December 12, 2018 by Eve SullivanLeave a comment

Nostalgia for Everquest?  I miss quad-kiting dwarves. This is 100% the druid experience, to the tune of Back in Black by AC/DC:

a_dwarven_bandit glares at you threateningly.

Lillith
kill ten rats
u get a sack
lvl 1 loot just isn’t phat
yeah i cant choose
boots or shoes
armor slots got me swappin stuff out
ive been lookin at the sky
cos from griffons ill die
cast flame lick and ur sure gonna fry
i will
quad kite
dwarf spite
hell level, time to run, guards are here to fight
kill ten rats
yes ten raats
well ten rats
yes ten rats
well ten ra-aa-aa-aa-ats’
yes ten ra-aa-aa-aa-ats
KILL TEN RATS!
I SAID! KILL! TEN! RATS!

I can always tell when Lil hasn’t gotten enough sleep because she sends me IMs like this at work.

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December 6, 2019

@atrupar Big guy comes up to me, a man's man guy & tears coming from his eyes says "Sir, I can't flush my toilet anymore. It takes 10-15 flushes just to clear the bowl. I complained to my liberal congressman, he said "see a doctor" they just don't care. Please sir, help me"

~Trump, prob

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Poor @realDonaldTrump— can’t drain the swamp, can’t flush the toilet!

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Friend took me for coffee, to talk.

Him: Wife and I are having a baby. Your kids seem cool. Parenting--how do you do it? Any tips?

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