My poor baby boy.....

We have food allergies that run in the family. Marshall has had the same reactions that Madeline has had, so he went dairy, soy, wheat/gluten and egg free and everything cleared up. The kids GI wants to re-test him on the 19th and called a few days ago telling us to start giving him things we suspect. It's been hard. I had a pit in my stomach going to the store to purchase items for him to take his food challenge with, I guess call it mommy's instinct.

Eggs was first, wow did he love eggs, I scrambled them for him with some coconut milk. They unfortunately didn't like him. His reactions are not immediate but delayed. The next day we got the results of what eggs does to his GI system. Not pretty at all.

Cow's Milk was next, the one that really got too me. My daughter goes into anaphalaxis shock with dairy, so I was sitting with him with the epi pen ready, just in case. The good news is that he didn't go into shock, but he did break out in a full body rash, the worst around his face. His poor cheeks looks like someone slapped him on each side, he looked very pitiful.

Next was Wheat/Gluten given in the form of multi-grain cheerios. Buying cheerios felt strange, I haven't purchased them in over 5 years. I cannot tell if he had a reaction between the eggs still working their way out of his system or not, but he's got gluten in his system now for the testing.

Soy has been last, in the form of soy milk. He refuses to drink it. I had to mix it in with some coconut milk to hide the taste of it. Again, like the wheat, I'm not sure if he's having a reaction or not.

We're suppose to continue this until the day of the testing. I feel so bad for him. I don't think I'm going to continue with cows milk, I took picture, even if the tests come back negative, we know he is having some sort of reaction to it. I am going to see if the GI can run both the IgE and IgG testing this go around as well as the Celiac marker again since gluten is now in his system.

Madeline will be getting her blood work re done. All of her reactions are immediate. Thankfully, we've never had to go this far, hers have always shown up, even when she was in the NICU the dairy and soy showed up and later on the eggs showed up as well as the Celiac marker.

A girlfriend of mine is going through the same thing, at least we know we're not crazy, because we sure feel like it.

On another note, Sassy our oldest girl rat, she has a breast tumor. She's going into the vet on Monday to get that looked at as well as a suspected upper respiratory infection that she is on antibiotics for. The rats vet is amazing. Thursday night is when I noticed her making noises and having troubles breathing. Their office was closed. The vet gave me his personal cell number to call in case something like this happens. Rodents go downhill extremely fast. I called him, left a message and he called back 20 mins. later. I had some left over antibiotics from her last ear infection and he said to start on that and he'd call the office and have them refill her script for me to pick up the next day. He was true to his word. I have never ran into such a caring vet. We are so lucky to have found him.

OK the quiona pancakes are about done, time for breakfast here.

I'll leave y'all with another picture of the girls, the power of SQUISH (all 4 of them piled into a hamster ball). Ariel is on the left, Sassy on top, Julie is next to Ariel and Butterfly is on the bottom. I have the ball tied to a corner of their cage for them to play in, apparently they like to sleep in it as well.