knock knock - Roll Call?

[Patria]

My grand-kids from NC, and also my adorable one year and a half great granddaughter are visiting the island.

I hope everyone's doing well.

[PHPaul]

Here every day, usually several times just checking to see if anyone dropped in.

Enjoy the kids!

[Bkeepr]

Been offline lately, but am alive and kicking.

Sad to see posts like this one get lots of views and so very few responses.

Patria and Paul, I'm glad you're both doing well...hope everyone else is, too.

[GeneMO]

Doing fair. I had tried to loose wt. and cut out sugar about 2 years ago. Got to using this damned "Sugar free" stuff with the Xylitol and Maltitol and other sweeteners in it. Well that damned stuff was killing my intestines. Had a colonospy on July 3rd. and they did biopsies and cultures. Good news is not cancer. Bad news is Ulcerative colitis. I dropped all the artificial stuff about a month ago. Doing better.

Stay away from that sugar free crap !!!!

Take care everybody.

Gene in good ole Missouri.

[Bkeepr]

Gene,

glad you are doing well, and got off the artificial sweeteners. I had a similar experience about 4-5 years ago, with aspartame-based products…affected my joints. Turns out the reaction is common. I got off all artificial sweeteners, learned to like black coffee and tea, and only small amounts of sugar in other things. I feel better now, but it could have been bad had my doctor not figured it out for me.

Good luck, hope you continue to improve.