I wish I could say the same about eating all the matzo!

We are eating it off our new kosher-le-pesach dairy crockery, with our (yes, you guessed it) k-l-p cutlery. We had bought this stuff a weekend or so ago, as we knew we needed new stuff for pesach. When we had removed all of the chametz and non k-l-p items from our kitchen, or masking-taped them up, we got the k-l-p cutlery and crockery out, washed it thoroughly and dried it, then labelled it. Yes, we had made the decision not to cut out meat on pesach. It was going to be a restrictive time anyway without banning a whole food group. So we dedicated half our items to meat; except for the bowls and all of the spoons. We wrote “MEAT” in red on two of everything, and “MILK” on two in blue. The cutlery got two correspondingly coloured large dots to denote their status. The teaspoons were all milk so didn’t need to be marked.

Anyway, the consequences of so much matzo were that I couldn’t get to sleep on Friday night and when I finally managed to doze off, I awoke a couple of hours later with excrutiating pains in my stomach. Back to bed, wake up again. At about 8am on Saturday morning I realised I wasn’t able to go to shul, didn’t bother to wake Mr Wonderful, rolled over and tried to sleep.

About midday I finally woke up. Sat on the sofa feeling slightly strange, and developed odd stomach pangs, of which I informed Mr Wonderful. He made me, on my request, a mushroom omelette. Some omelette – it had cheese, cherry tomatoes, spring onion, and chives. Some omelette! Halfway through; I had to stop. Horrific stomach ache. Not stabbing or throbbing but completely random and acute. Mr Wonderful said I shouldn’t have had the food – that it was probably constipation. He has some stomach issues himself, so is a good person to reasonably conjecture. What a shock – I’ve never had that before. The pain got so bad I took some pain killers. I went and lay down and tried to sleep. It worked – when I awoke about five hours later, the pain had gone. But I’ve certainly now experienced a full on matzo-induced stomach upset. I can see how debilitating it is, and feel real empathy with my friends who suffer stomach issues.