Go Google It

Yesterday as I was driving to work listening to my staple radio station Air1, they were talking about the word of the decade. The word of the still nameless decade. The American Dialect Society voted and the word of the decade is “google” (in lowercase because it’s generic for top search engine) meaning “to search the internet”.

This is a good word for the decade which could really be defined as the information age. Everything is at our finger tips. All we really have to do if we want to know something is “go google it”. (I used to tell my mom to go google stuff all the time, then one day she told me to “go google it” and I haven’t said it again to her.)

Good ole Google.

I went googling the other day, looking for blogs written by people with diabetes that also have gastroparesis. I didn’t find what I was looking for, they don’t seem to exist in the online arena…where are the diabetics with gastroparesis with blogs? (this is not territory I want to venture into all by myself.)

Not finding what I wanted I simplified my search criteria “gastroparesis blog” and clicked. The first one I clicked on was not the best thing to click on because it is written by a woman who has a feeding tube and is very limited in what she can actually eat. I read a couple posts a couple comments and then shut down my computer.

Going and googling what people were experiencing with my possible looming diagnosis was not the healthiest thing for me to do at this point. What’s out there is depressing. I understand that it’s important for me to know what’s going on and how to handle it, but it’s ugly. Low fiber meals, white bread over wheat bread, cooked veggies instead of raw veggies…it’s gross (no offense to those that like white bread and cooked veggies). Not to mention low fat or no fat meals, do you know what kind of crap is put into food to make it low fat or no fat…do people realize (hello endos and CDEs) that there’s more carbs in that junk. And what about meat! I love me a steak, I don’t eat red meat that often, but sheesh, a girl has got to be able to have a juicy steak every now and then.

*very carefully steps off the soapbox*

Googling things is great, having information at our finger tips is great; but it’s even better when it’s happy and positive and there’s hope.