Ian was weighed and measured and we went in the room to wait for the doctor. He came in and then went to get the results from the computer. He came back in and showed me the lab reports. I took one look at them and nearly started crying. Ian is no longer reacting to dairy proteins or eggs! I just teared up! This past 30 months of dealing with dairy allergies has been such a weight on my shoulders. Reading every label, policing every snack, watching the school and the CDC's food regimens, paperwork, etc. It's all OVER! My child can be normal and have what the other kids have. Birthday cake. Ice cream. Chocolate candy. No restrictions. No more carting around a "substitute" for cake. No more making sure that no one hands him a cookie that he can't have. No more trying to make his food as close to the other kids' but without the dairy. He's outgrown it and we can put this past us!
So we left the doctor's office, our lab reports in hand, and then Ian and I went to Chuck E Cheese to meet some friends and celebrate! Ian had cheese on his pizza and loved it. It's been 2.5 years since he has deliberately eaten a dairy product. I am pleased to report that he had no skin reactivity (sometimes the lab tests can be wrong.) Here's a picture of my dairy eating little man!
Ian and I had a lot of fun just the two of us and he melted my heart when he asked if he could have some "M beans" when we were in Hobby Lobby. Ian knew that he could have "S beans," also known as Skittles, but that the "M beans," aka M&Ms were off limits in the past. So he had his first packet of M&Ms on the way home. When I asked him what they tasted like he said "Yummy Chocowate." He also said, " The gween ones are my favowite because gween is my favowite colwor."
