Morning all...lovely bright one it is too. Last night stayed fine here & there were LOTS of fireworks. Neither Charlie nor Mac bothered in the slightest about them so I was lucky I suppose. Mac would stand happily in the garden watching them with me. I do feel for the wildlife.
I'm so pleased for Mr S shaney, and you too. It's one day at a time now, he just needs some emotional & physical rest, you both do, and slowly 'normal' will be resumed. You put it well when you said it's like living in a bubble, whether you're the patient or the family that's exactly what it is, it feels like 'Us/me and them'.
My diet's very restricted now Lottie, and it's often so called healthy food which makes it worse...too much salad, heavy wholemeal bread, brocolli (yukky anyway), rich fruit drinks, onions, too much meat. Apparently the worst meat is pork in any form and even chicken isn't as easily digestible as people think. (It went through Charlie like a dose of salts)
This is a good article...
http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/articles/ibs/