End of the grapes (for now)

On day 10 of the grape trial, we finally pulled the plug on the grapes. Asher's tummy ache, which began as soon as he started eating grapes, never went away and his food intake has taken a nose dive. Thing is, when Asher has a reaction to a food, it's different from this reaction, so we're not convinced that this is a food failure. At any rate, we did decide to remove it from Asher's diet.

As soon as we made the decision, Asher began to ask for grape juice. Then he said that his tummy ache disappeared. He's really sad that he can't have grapes or grape juice for awhile. Truthfully, so am I.

Today I went to Whole Foods to get some things for Asher. While there, I was looking around at the breads and cheeses and cakes and pastries and I just started to cry. I literally burst into tears while looking at the cheeses. Here was this huge store fool of delicious food and Asher will never get to eat any of it. It made me really sad for him. So, there I was, bawling my eyes out and I walked over to the check-out counter, saw a really nice nutcracker on-sale for half price and I bought it - all the while thinking, "this is a really wasteful purchase; when are we ever going to be cracking nuts in this house?" Which got me even more sad and crying more. So, then it was my turn to check out and I looked up at the cashier, who was of Indian descent and on her name tag was the name, "Laila". Good golly, a woman of Indian descent with a Hebrew name? What a coincidence! So, we talked for a bit, all the while I had tears in my eyes and the cashier didn't say a word about my tears. And then I come home to a tearful Asher who wants to drink grape juice but can't.