Man... I hate Crohn's even when I'm feeling well....

Here's the deal... June 24th, my college's Project Succes program (a program for first-generation, low income, and/or disabled students that does various things such as take us on cultural trips, offer tutoring services, offer academic advising, etc.) is having a cultural trip to the Fox Theatre in St. Louis to see Wicked (which will be most awesome)...

What is not most awesome is that they will be providing us lunch.... at this place... Which is my worst nightmare and probably a few other Crohnies' worst nightmares as well...

http://www.fountainonlocust.com/fountainonlocust.com/Menu.html

I'm not angry at the Project Success people... It is awfully nice of them to be providing lunch to the lot of us... It's just... well... The menu is really sucky... :(.... I mean.... The food all looks delicious and everything, but that doesn't help you any if you can't eat any of it because it will make you sick...

If I can't request my food items to be customized so that they can be safe for me to eat (some restaurants will do that, but some others don't), then, I'll probably have to bring a packed lunch....

It's times like this I really miss being able to eat whatever I want... :(

Cool... :)... I don't live very far from St. Louis myself, obviously... Of course... Due to my lack of transportation and limited finances, I don't get to go out very often... So, I really am looking forward to the trip...

I'm just... wary about the restaurant... Either way it goes, I know I will be extremely envious of all the people who'll order ice cream... :(... Or those hand-made chocolates....

Ice cream is too much....

I can handle a tiny bit of butter... I can handle yogurt (as long as it is not frozen), and I can handle a small amount of milk in certain baked goods (A bowl of milk with cereal is too much, though, I know that)... I'm not sure where the cut-off line is, but I know even a small ice cream cone will do me in... I don't handle dairy very well at all...

As for how long, it would take me to get back home, that would probably depend on the traffic up in St. Louis.... I'd say... probably about 40 minutes.... And considering that ingesting milk products makes me very nauseous... and the fact that I get car sick easily... well... It would NOT be a good combination....

And anyway, it's not just the ice cream.... Pretty much everything on the menu is smothered in cheese.... is spicy.... contains raw vegetables (I used to be able to handle raw fruits and vegetables without much trouble, but now... They really tear me up *it literally feels like I'm being ripped to shreds inside*)... Or contains vegetables which will most likely contain seeds... Which I know I can't handle based on the fact that I tried eating a small bit of blackberry cobbler (which really made me sick)... and I tried eating some strawberries, too (which didn't hurt as bad as the black cobbler did, but it still hurt enough to make me want to avoid them... and I used to be a strawberry addict)... I thought if the seeds were small enough, they wouldn't bother me... but... I was wrong... :(

It really just isn't worth the pain (well, dairy usually doesn't cause much in the way of pain... some gas pain... it mostly just makes me really sick to my stomach)... I mean, I really love food... if it didn't bother me too much, I would wolf it down without a second thought.... But I know the problems it'll give me... and that scares me... I really hate the thought of being in pain...

:-(

(((Celey)))

I guess that does rather suck... :-/

It's weird. I know I have severe disease but it doesn't seem to make much difference what I eat. I do suffer, but in a different way to most Crohnies, so it would seem. *scratches head*

Well, I've run out of good ideas. I guess you might have to bring along a packed lunch after all. I hope you at least enjoy the company and the show!