This past week we saw the allergist!
We were there early, and it took over an hour from our appointment time until we actually saw the Doctor.
Do you know how hard it is to keep a 2 year old entertained and happy when it is close to their nap time?
( I planned it so we would be driving home from the appointment during his nap time but because of them being so late, we were a little crabby)
So the doctor decides to have us have blood drawn to see if any of the foods we are thinking of adding to his diet were allergens.
the thing about G tubes is you assume, Hey now that you can feed him all the nutrition he needs, this should be so much easier.
It isn't yet.
We are still adjusting with times during the day to get 4 bottles in.
And now Cooper isn't interested in eating solids because the formula is keeping him full.
So now we have the same struggles as before, but there are amplified.
We also have the problem that when he eats solids he doesn't want to drink a bottle.
and the solids he is eating at this point are not nutritionally equivalent, so that is what we went in to the doctor with.
I asked to have more high caloric foods so when he does eat, we can take on of the bottles out of his intake.
I also wanted things of different textures so we can work with them with our OT.
SO the foods we decided we are going to try if they come back as non allergens from the blood work are:
Avocado
Buckwheat
Eggplant
Turkey meat
Pork
and Coconut
( so we can use oil in other meals to bring the calories up and flour to make more spongy/ cake-y foods for him to eat like banana pancakes)
We will know in a couple of weeks what we can add.
We went and had Coopers blood drawn after the appointment.
Again he was a champ. Even when they couldn't get him to bleed into the tube. He had to sit there for a while and he still was so good!
This process also took over an hour.
At this point he is good and cranky, and tired!
I was starving so we went and had lunch and Cooper had a tube feed.
He is so good with them.
on our way home we were driving on the freeway.
There was a large metal thing in the road that I couldn't see because of the person in front of me. I was changing lanes so when it did become available I didn't see it because I was looking into the next lane and I hit it.
And my tire popped.
then 5 other cars in a matter of a few minutes did the same thing.
WE had to wait for AAA on the side of the highway.
They had to change my tire.
So this added 50 minutes to my day.
Then we had to go get a new tire.
Luckily before Jeff deployed we were considering selling his car and he needed new tires. So we had a warranty on the popped tire, but the rest weren't looking so good. So we had to buy a second tire so the back wheels would be the same 32'.
This also added over an hour to our day.
I swear to you, nothing is ever easy!
How we stay entertained at the Doctor's office when he is running over an hour behind
After his blood draw! He loved saying "purple elbow" with his bandage on!
Lunch. My child will only eat the ends...
At the tire store waiting for our tires to be changed
