This first trip back to work was good, but exhausting. Instead of trying to force my tired brain into writing, I thought I’d bring back a topic I’ve already addressed: Things I wish I’d known when we first got our food allergy diagnosis. Reading over this list today, I’m struck … Continue reading
In the same vein as my FPIES Eyes post from yesterday, last fall I was reading on the Food Renegade website and found this interesting article: Your Extra-Virgin Olive Oil Is Fake. Well, hell. All we USE is olive oil. For our Food Allergic children. So if they’re cutting the … Continue reading
Have you ever noticed that food is everywhere? No, seriously. It’s in commercials, TV shows, movies, magazines, books, billboards…it is everywhere, and you can’t escape it. Mr. Charm is now in the 2-3 year old group at Sunday School, instead of in the nursery. This is great! He now gets … Continue reading
The day Mr. Charm was diagnosed with MPI, I felt my world crashing around my head. If internet chatting is any indication, my experience was not unique. Most regular pediatricians are not terribly helpful in giving you good tools to cope with such a diagnosis. Here’s what I wish someone … Continue reading
Bright and early on Wednesday we had a follow-up appointment with the pediatric gastroenterologist. This is the same doctor from the hospital; he apparently also has hours a few times a week in a town closer to us. God Bless him! When Mr. Charm needed a pediatric GI doctor, we … Continue reading
I woke up in the morning to discover that sometime in the night, Mr. Happy had decided that he no longer needed to be on oxygen. He had pulled the canula out of his nose and it was over his head like a headband. The nurse saw this while I … Continue reading
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