It's been awhile. I wish I hadn't done that. It's going to be harder to keep track of things for myself when I'm not writing it down. I'll have to work on that.
We hit out initial 6 week trial right around Halloween. So there was a little sugar crazy going on, and then Judah got into the only chocolate bar we let him have and ate 15 of them in one day. Halloween size ones, but still the sugar craze looked exactly like a reaction so we had to figure that out.
We decided that it was probably best to stretch the initial time into 8 weeks and try to give the boy some time to calm down hopefully.
When we got to the 8 week point we were very excited to add back in apples. And then Judah had a rough day after we gave him apples. And we stressed out trying to figure out if he was reacting to apples. But then the next day he was throwing up and had the flu. So then we were trying to figure out if he reacted to the apples or if he was just getting sick. We made the decision to just ignore apples for now. We got Judah better and rather then decided to move on to testing other things.
It was nearing the end of November at that point and the stores were full of Mandarin Oranges. So the decision in the house was to test oranges next. I think we are good there. Judah despite all the Christmas extras that have been going on has been fine in the last few weeks. And he's eating a few oranges a week so we know that it's not building up in his system, but that he seems to be handling it fine!!!
So we thought we would try out tomatoes next. The kids missed spaghetti and pizza. So it was Spaghetti one week. Then the next they must have had pizza two or three times. And again he seems to be fine. I used tomato paste with all those things so I think I'm okay with that. Next time I will try canned tomato soup and see how he does.
It all leads us to today. And all of a sudden I have a son that is running all over, walking on the chairs in church, unable to sit still, making constant noise, and not able to listen and respond to simple instructions.
The problem is that I don't know what he ate to set him off. Was is the approved candy off of the gingerbread houses, the approved pizza from Domino's, the approved maple flavouring, or just a crazy response to a busy week?
I don't think that we will ever know. Hopefully he will come down soon and we can try to figure it out. In the mean time I think the next few weeks will be a little rough for him. We will be away from home and eating at other people's houses, and there will be the excitement of Christmas. The plan is to try and control as much as we can and then detox him after Christmas. I hope it works and that we don't go too crazy.
In the meantime I was encouraged today by the fact that I noticed his behaviour. That means that a day like this is not normal any more!! The last three weeks have been fantastic and I have hope that we will get back to that.
