Happy Thanksgiving Weekend!

Happy Thanksgiving Weekend to you!  We had a very successful dinner experience!!  This was the first year that my son was given the go ahead to try some of the traditional dishes made in the conventional ways.  Of course in typical kid fashion he didn't care of most of it, but none-the-less he wasn't that restricted.  He ate real mashed potatoes made with milk & butter, was allowed to eat green bean casserole (which I made with an organic cream of mushroom soup that still had milk & wheat), real gravy with milk and wheat flour (last year I used rice milk and tapioca startch), stuffing with wheat bread & butter, cranberry sauce (he recently cleared a home cranberry treatment), whole wheat rolls from Trader Joe's, and pumpkin pie that was made at a gluten-free bakery.  So as you can see, lots of wheat and butter.  (Not to mention the 4 pieces of pepperoni pizza from Whole Foods he had this week.)  All of this and not one bit of scratching, scaly skin, or bumps--his skin looks remarkably clear!

Doughnuts

Still work ing on the diseases within the DTaP, we completed the last of the 3 today.  But that's not what I want to update on.  I think I mentioned a few posts back the my husband has been taking my son to Biggby's and they've secretely been sharing a donut. As my kid puts it, "just enough to get a little taste, not over doing it."  He hadn't seem any worse for the wear, but once I found out I had my husband bring me a piece to treat for, which we did.  Then Biggby was nice enough to give us the label off the donuts to see all the ingredients.  And wow are these things loaded:  wheat, egg, soy, milk and everything in between, but he's pretty much treated for it all.  I took the sample and list to NAET today and had the doc muscle test for it.  Strong as a rock I tell ya.  She couldn't believe it (and neither could I) so she did it a second time, and still strong.  That was in contrast to the sample of store-brand soft tortillas that I self treated him for--still weak, needs 3 more treatments for them.  The only reason I bought them was because a classmate was bringing them in for a class snack (elephant ears made with them.)  So I tried to be pre-emptive about it as he's broken out to them before, but didn't matter as my kid didn't like them anyways.

List of donut ingredients, not the best picture but you get the idea that these aren't organic and healthy:

Been On a Break

Haven't posted in a couple of weeks, as we took a much needed break from everyday life and jetted off to Disney World.  It's SO incredibly nice not to have to be anywhere or on any type of schedule.  I get so tired of twice weekly doctor appointments for NAET, but I see the benefit so we persevere. 

And boy did we reap the benefits while on vacation! We ate our every single day without issue.  The second we hit Disney World I bought my son one of those colorful swirly suckers.  I had tears in my eyes as I paid for it, and the look on his face when he realized it was for him was priceless.  We're still careful when it comes to food, but he did try some orange/vanilla twist ice cream and he couldn't believe what he's been missing.  He also ate lots of pizza, a different variety of Annie's cereal without issue, and a hotel waffle made in a Mickey Mouse waffle maker with fake syrup! (Seriously, does anyone really realize what they're putting into their bodies these days?!  I only buy the 100% pure maple at home, and the extra cost is worth it to me.)

We're now working on the various components of the DTaP.  His first treatment back was for tetnus.  I'm hoping he can treat for the P (pertussis) this week as there's been a case of whooping cough at his school.  It was the DTaP that he experienced anaphylatic shock to when he was 2 years old, so we may need to take this one slow.