It never ends

We had gone for almost a week without any food reactions, but one showed up again today. He's been egg, dairy and peanut-free since we got home, so I'm hoping it's just residual. They say it can take up to three weeks for the body to clear the reactions, and he didn't go yesterday, so maybe the extra stress made something happen.

I get so tired of chasing this stuff down, that I feel like I'm not feeding a child, I'm managing his poop. I might have said that here before; I'll have to check. I sometimes wonder if it''s even worth it trying to narrow stuff down. It's not an allergy, so it won't kill him to have this stuff, but it sure is disturbing to see blood where it isn't suppossed to be. It also seems to be random sometimes, like when he had pizza and was totally fine.

I may need to go for the Top Eight Elimination diet, removing soy, milk, corn, wheat, fish, peanuts, treenuts, and eggs, and then build from there. I'm pretty confident that he's OK with wheat, just because he eats Cheerios all the time and bread and stuff, but the others are still open for discussion, I suppose. I'll have to try it out.

We ate out tonight, at The Wharf Rat, a pub around the corner. They have good fries there, and a jukebox that James really likes. They're totally empty when we go in usually, so he can wander around and dance undisturbed. There's also a phone booth from England, and he likes to go inside and pretend it's his house. I had the oysters, and then remembered they're out of season. You're only suppossed to eat oysters in months that have an "r" in them. May through August are the off season. I'm not sure if it's a holdover form the days befroe refrigeration, or something to do with replenishing the stock, but I usually stick to it.

Now, I must attend to the bath, and scrub the dirt from my kid's toes. He's singing, "It's raining, it's pouring" which means all the water is about to end up on the floor.

Thanks for reading,
Anne