“In Which I Give Up”, or, “Fructose, How I Hate Thee”

The kids and I had to come down to Houston last week to take care of some family business and we are staying with my parents. My parents are WONDERFUL about their grandchildrens’ food issues; last year, Mom and I even made the entire Thanksgiving dinner allergy-free for Mr. Charm … Continue reading

To Peel, or Not To Peel

We’ve seen great improvement in Mr. Charm since going fructose free.  He’s much better behaved, and his verbal development is speeding up.  Now, it seems, he wants  to communicate verbally, whereas before he was content with using his few words combined with gestures to get his points across. We’ve also … Continue reading

A Journey of a Thousand Foods Begins With a Single Bite

OK, I wrote this post with the plan to post it today, but over the weekend some things popped up on our radar that complicates the issues. I didn’t have time to re-write it to include the new stuff, so, here’s the originally planned post, with the weekend revelations at … Continue reading

OK. I Give In. I Hate Doctors.

I took Mr. Charm to the GI on Monday, Oct. 15th.  The doctor wouldn’t give us the hydrogen breath test, but did other tests to ‘rule things out’. We were told we would be called with the results.  They didn’t call. I finally called the doctor on Friday, the 26th … Continue reading