The last several months I have been having a major flare up of my Crohn’s disease.  I have spent ten days in the hospital. I will have surgery on April 27th.  As I wait to  have surgery, I have been eating a low residue diet, but sometimes I think I can branch out.  This weekend I thought I could, but obviously I didn’t pick the right thing.  At the Range Cafe in Albuquerque, I ate the B.L.O.A.T.E.M sandwich.  It’s a bacon, lettuce, onion, avocado, tomato sandwich on an English muffin.  It sounded good so I ordered it.  It was good until I really realized that I was BLOATEM.  Definitely something that is uncomfortable and not fun.  I am already bloated most of the time because of strictures, but being bloated from a sandwich named BLOATEM is no fun at all.  I am feeling better now, but I won’t be eating the B.L.O.A.T.E.M anytime soon.  I have learned a lesson through all of this – you are what you eat.