Days 16, 17 & 18

We've had a bit more aggression and melt-downs, but some of that is probably attributable to my own bad moods the last few days.

Ryan's food intake has been right on target, totally GF and CF. Monday meals were cereal, PB&J (which he barely ate), and pork chops with sweet potatoes and butternut squash. Also snacky things like rice cakes, fritos, potato chips and snappea crisps. Oh, and he went to his grandma's house, and I let him take some Soy Delicious "ice cream" and some Envirokids rice crispy bars. Tuesday meals were french toast with maple syrup, turkey & ham sandwich (which he only nibbled), and scrambled eggs with bacon and sausage for dinner. Snacky things again: rice cakes, snappea crisps and fritos. I also let him have some McDonald's french fries after his psych appt last night. I know some people would advise against it, but he's been soooo good about not getting upset at not having some of his favorite things, that I feel the need to let him have *something*. Whether there is actually detectable wheat/dairy in them is debatable...I know of one very-dairy-allergic child (anaphylactically allergic) who has no trouble with McD's fries, and one celiacs adult who has no trouble with them, so I've decided to allow them in very small quantities. This morning, he had a bowl of cereal and some juice with GSE. He's had vitamins and acidophilus every day.

I've decided that on Feb 1 we will try out something dairy. I'll let him choose what he wants for 24 hours and then we'll stop and see how he reacts. It'll be over a weekend.

He had a good psychologist appointment last night. She's working on personal space with him. They discussed how each person has their own "bubble" space, that extends all around their body at arms length, and how he needs to have permission to be in another person's "bubble". They made a book that has reminders in it about what he can do with his hands, what he can't do with his hands, and how to stay outside of other people's bubbles.

Thanks to all of you who've made comments...I haven't figured out how to "reply", but I want to know I appreciate your taking time to read all this. Jessica, about the meeting with the principal, :-) Basically he said having another adult in the room would be too disruptive for the class, and that it's also a precedence he doesn't want to set for the school. I do think he was relieved to know that we've had some success with the diet and wanted to make sure the school was doing what it could in that regard (although there's nothing they have to do beyond keeping him from eating anything that I haven't sent in for his snack...he's not there for lunch). And it abruptly ended on that note. We have conferences next week, so we'll see what his teacher has to say.

Oh, and he had his record-breaking green card yesterday!! 7 in a row. :-)