Endoscopy results

We received the results of Asher's endoscopy today ..... everything looks good. There are still eosinophils in Asher's esophagus, but they are "under the limit". Dr. Putnam says that it just takes a very long time to completely get rid of them.

Now we can add foods back into Asher's diet - one at a time. Offer one food; wait a month. Offer another food; wait another month. After 3-4 foods, do another endoscopy and get the results. Repeat.

I know this is good news. This is exactly the news for which we hoped. The joy was tempered with other news....

While preparing for the endoscopy, the nurses asked routine questions. One of the questions was, is Asher allergic to any foods? After giving the nurses this long laundry list of foods to which Asher tested positive on the skin prick test, I asked Dr. Putnam what he thought - if Asher really was allergic to all those foods or if some of them were false positives. Dr. Putnam's response took me by surprise. He said that he suspected that they were all true positives - that Asher is truly allergic to all those foods and that there are probably going to be a lot more foods to which he tests positive. And he tried to prepare us for a lot of food failures as we go into food trials. The thought of that is overwhelming.

Anyway, for a lot of reasons, we chose pork as the first food to try. Asher's thrilled that he gets to eat food -- and less super-milk. So, we'll just keep going and see where this road takes us. But we reserve the right to change our minds at any moment.