Further Reports from the Diet Trenches

While Craig and I have suffered many a stomach cramp, and I have been quite miserable through the whole thing, feeling exhausted, ill, and just about as terrible as my worst days, Ana told me something very important this morning.

Her stomach doesn't hurt.

So, for the next seven days, I'll be watching her very closely, listening to her and making sure that this lack of pain and discomfort, which has baffled conventional M.D.s for the last three or four years, continues throughout the elimination phase. If it does, then I'm going to be listening even more closely to her when we start adding the gluten, dairy, and eggs back in.

The moment she cries "ow!" we'll likely have our answer.

I'm so angry with her doctor right now for blaming brown rice and corn (Ana barely eats corn) for her stomach troubles, and for trying to get me to irradiate my child just to see if she had a colon blockage. She even prescribed laxatives! I may not agree with everything Craig's chiro/naturopath said, but his method may prove the best way to help a long-term problem for her.

She still wants an allergy blood test, which I'm willing to get for her with her next child support payment since her doctor refuses to do the test (and without her primary physician's approval, we don't get insurance to cover it). And if it turns out she has an allergy? We'll adjust for her.

But I'd like to point out: her stomach doesn't hurt.

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