It's been awhile since we've given an update. We were at the beach. But that's another story for a different blog entry. Right now, I want to tell you how Asher's doing in his food trials.
After two weeks of eating rice, Raj and I breathed a sigh of relief and moved on to potatoes. Honestly, I thought that it was certain that Asher would fail the rice trial, so I'm absolutely thrilled that things have gone as well as they're going. I'm afraid to get my hopes up by thinking that perhaps we can actually, one day, feed this kid.
Asher has been eating potatoes for about one and a half weeks - well past the dreaded 5th day.
It's wonderful that Asher has been eating food. He only drinks about 4-6 oz of formula now with his meal - of food. It's just great. Raj has been cooking him "pork fried rice" - with pork and rice and broccoli all fried up together. Asher just loves it. He is REALLY enjoying his potato chips. Golly, adding rice and potato have done GREAT things for his outlook. It's been wonderful.
The protocol is to trial 3 foods, then perform an endoscopy to check for allergic reaction. Some children show no outward symptoms yet an endoscopy will reveal eosinophils in the esophagus upon biopsy. So the endoscopy is an important step. We're scheduled for an endoscopy tomorrow.
Truthfully, I hate endoscopies. They're so hard on Asher and the risk of complications, although small, is frightening. I'll breathe a BIG sigh of relief after the endoscopy when all goes well. And when we have the results - in about a week - I'll be sure to post them.
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