Who’s Normal Anyway?

Carrying on from where I left off yesterday, A and M got back mid afternoon, had a quick cuppa and then went back out to MRT to help set up for A’s leaving do last night. We’re not going for another 6 weeks but it was a joint do with 3 other people so they clubbed together to hire a band and buy food and 2 barrels of beer and make it a bigger do.

A got back in time to make a tasty chilli and rice. Then it was time to drop M off at Beavers so we all went out and then I dropped in to MRT with L and A for 3/4 of an hour before going back to pick M up. After he was in bed and asleep I went to bed to feed L til he eventually dropped off and to read my new book. Thanks for the recommendation Jan, I hope that is the one you meant. It’s very interesting anyway, but I’ve still plenty to read. I seem to be along the right lines for the first stages of doing an elimination diet. He suggests for breastfeeding babies to begin by cutting just dairy out of mum’s diet for 2 weeks (which I did with no noticeable difference last November) and then to move on to eliminating everything you eat regularly and also wheat, eggs, peanuts. So I am kind of half doing that. I am cutting out milk again, wheat, eggs, soya, peanuts and fish. To cut out everything I eat regularly I’d need to include things like chicken, beef, potatoes, tomatoes, peppers, onions, oranges, apples, oats, other nuts and probably lots of things I haven’t thought of. Add in all the related foods (like other citrus if cutting out oranges) and I’m not sure there is much left?! So I won’t be doing that if 2 weeks on this diet (if I make it that far) shows no improvement. Well, certainly not before we move anyway. The book had some other suggestions for things like house dust mites and if he’s reacting to the carpets, so will consider those too, but I don’t want to change anything else at the same time as diet.

In the middle of the night I woke up to A being ill, so found he had made it home but had had a few too many. So he’s been in bed all morning but got up an hour ago when he remembered he had a dyslexia lesson booked for early this afternoon. Then later on he has to go to work.

This morning we’ve been up a bit earlier because we had workmen coming to fix stuff in the bathroom. M has done some Neopets, Lego website, maths and we’ve read the story of Leyla and the Lamp. He got part way through narrating it back to me and we had to break off for me to go to the GP’s, so after lunch we need to finish that. Right now he’s Lego-ing in his bedroom.

We were supposed to be going to West Park today, but with everything else and the doctors we didn’t get out. Going to see the GP was a bit of a last minute decision, because L has come up with 2 lumps on the back of his neck. The GP thinks they’rejust enlarged lymph glands and related to the scaly skin on the nape of his neck.

I’ve made leek and mushroom soup for lunch today - bit of a change from the lentil soup I’ve had for lunch the last 2 days. I also made some flat bread with gluten free flour, but they are particularly stodgy, though improved by dunking in the soup. One I made with crushed coriander and cumin seeds on the top and the other I put walnuts and honey on - not tried that one yet. Oh, and I discovered porridge is much improved by a sprinkling of cinnamon as well as some sugar on the top.