Work was good. Last night I realized how much I was craving a chance to escape all the responsibilities and pressures.
Unfortunately, things weren't so good at home. I came home to a Virgil who was intensely needy and very red faced, despite Brian benadryling him around 5. I didn't sleep great last night due to Virgil reacting to something. ( Read more... )

1). We are much better off eggs.
2). Still reacting. Possibly oregano, carrots, coffee, or fries cooked in peanut oil. Or something else. Not sure what to cut out next. Probably carrots.
3) now the opinion poll
Someone suggested oxalate. So, having realized we can not do GAPS do we try low oxalate or low salicylate or maybe both and subsist ( Read more... )

I had daikon radish. He's probably allergic bc when I couldnt have cabbage I had radish kimchi. My friends mom makes the best!. I tried making my own, we'll see. I also had beets. I may try the oxalate diet. It means no more apples but not that much else to cut out. I think liver?
We seem to only need Benadryl every other day although we ( Read more... )

Tonight Brian called while I was dealing with hysterical Galen and Virgil and poop, the phone rings.
Perry very sedately, "now is not the best time, Daddy but you didn't know that."*

This is more poignant because this afternoon I got a phone call from the school counselor that Perry got sent to her after tripping students in the lunch room. Now I ( Read more... )

Up until tonight I've been eating fries from nondedicated fryers. I knew that it was possible for small amounts of gluten to contaminate the oil. Well tonight I was just too tired and I needed to pick up meds at CVS so I took everyone out to Fosters. Virgil was a bit manic and polyuric before we left but I was hoping it was left over from Sundays ( Read more... )

Day one hungry but not too bad. Virgil's skin is healing.
Day two Virgil peed 3 diapers overnight. He and I were constipated. His legs are turning red. I move to stage two, maybe too fast but it's only adding egg yolks. Virgil starts burping, his legs are more red. He gets Benadryl before bed. I eat a gluten free doughnut. 5am Virgil gets ( Read more... )

We're going off coconut and strawberries.
I'm thinking of going back to GAPS but he hasn't been enthusiastic for broth lately and for us it's just broth since you can have cooked veggies in theory but the only safe veggies are potatoes and corn which are sugar. You can also have ferments which would be okay if we weren't avoiding/unsure about ( Read more... )

Let's recap. Fri am Brian leaves early. School is delayed. Galen vomits. No school for my boys. Sat night Brian spends night at friends. Its okay, because we've moved on to diarrhea. Sat night poor Galen, he's screaming in pain despite ibi, Tylenol, and Benadryl. My eyes keep snapping shut. At one point he,s yelling, "you said you'd get up ( Read more... )

For those keeping track
Gluten seems okay. Yay. Hope it lasts this time.
Beans no longer okay. This may seem trivial as we are not vegetarians. However, no hummus and no soy milk or guar gum. When you are dairy free this is an issue. All the coconut milks seem to be thickened with guar gum. Not to mention avoiding soy and dairy is a bit like ( Read more... )

Allergies. This weekend through trial and error (or is that just error?) we have confirmed Virgil is allergic to pineapple (whatever, not a big deal or hard to avoid) and lettuce. Yeah lettuce. So NAET says it cleared cabbage but Virgil doesn't agree. I haven't tried broccoli yet as I was planning to do that over the long weekend but pineapple ( Read more... )