A lot has been going on in my life and head with our little bug. We have been enjoying time on my parents boat and the kids are quite the fish in the water! Mike and I do not know where they get this! Okay maybe a tiny bit from me, but I think it's from mikes dad who loved canoes and my dad of course who is a boater and water skier.
We have discovered that our little guy is highly allergic to the life jacket that is considered like wet suit material. His face breaks out terribly in hives, so back to the drawing board because he LOVES the water.
On another note found two restaurants that have been AMAZING about my son's food allergies! PF CHANGS and CHIPOLTE.
Pf changs:
We ordered to go and they were so amazing took the order then had me go over it again and his allergies with the manager who directly went over it with the chef. He had a successful meal and loved it! No reactions! If you know how our life has been, you would know it is amazing to make it thru a meal without a reaction.
Props to the customer service they were amazing! They are rated very highly with how they handle their procedures for allergies. They met my husband at the door and knew of the allergies and marked all of my sons food with orange stickers indicating it and also prepared his entirely separately.
Chipolte:
Amazing customer service we went and they made everyone wait behind us until his order was completely made to avoid any cross contamination, they changed gloves, opened fresh ingredients and washes all the counters and the manager made his meal.
He even checked on us twice to make sure we were satisfied and that he was okay. He even gave us a free meal next time we come in.
Thanks for making my family feel out of the bubble for a night!
On another note been back to the allergist for a large amount of testing for 16 different foods. They did this because he was reacting quite frequently to who knows what at that point. The good news is he is able to have coconut! We were thrilled. They did not perform the rest of the tree nuts yet. We were shocked to find he is allergic too all fish and shellfish. Chicken also showed up but was small, so they asked us to trial it for two weeks and keep a diary. We are entering day three and so far so good!
Prayer is what gets us thru and also our sweet boy who does not let it define him. We have our moments of tears and frustration for him that he cannot enjoy the little things sometimes but we try to go on without letting it stop us.
Another thing we have been doing is taking an adventure into the canning world. We are trying to elimate any ingredients for freshness etc. we have done dill and sweet pickles which they love and no reactions!
We have also been buying local at there farmers markets and buying local grass fed beef and chicken and it tastes amazing and is so much better for us. This has changed our health as a family for the better for sure.
Thank you for joining sorry it's been so long!
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