Happy Dance!!!!!!

Happy Dance, Happy Dance, I am doing the Happy Dance!!!!!!!! Tomorrow Megan moves up to the 12 peanut dose. After this week she is DONE with her peanut desensitization!!!!!!!!!! Next week she will go back for a 24 peanut challenge and then on to maintenance. I am still in awe that she is eating peanuts. In one year we have accomplished making Megan's life safer, first with egg and now peanut.

Ugh, Ugh, Ugh

You either like/love peanuts or you dislike/hate peanuts. Megan would fall into the second category, LOL. I hope that over time she acquires a tolerance for the taste. Guessing she will never really like/love them but one could only hope. My arms are getting a work out twice a day from grinding her peanuts down, LOL.

10 peanuts!!!

Yesterday Megan dosed up to ten peanuts, amazing isn't it!!! Next week she will move to 12 peanuts and then the following week she will do an in office challenge of 24 peanuts. We are on the homestretch. It is so hard to believe that in a year Megan has completed two desensitizations making her life not so scary anymore.

Tomorrow is 10 peanuts!!!!!

I crushed Megan's TEN peanuts with a mortal and pestle until they were pretty much peanut butter consistency. I have started adding either honey or Enjoy Life chocolate chips and Megan seems to tolerate the "nasty peanuts" as she calls them, LOL. It is hard to believe but also so amazing that in two weeks Megan will have completed PEANUT DESENSITIZATION!!!!!!! The rest of the family has enjoyed having real peanut butter again, cheese and peanut butter crackers, candy with chocolate, ect..

MEGAN HATES PEANUT!!!!!!

Megan HATES peanut and it is sometimes very challenging to get her to take her twice daily dose. I have tried every way to making it more palatable but now that she is up to 8 peanuts per dosing it is getting more and more challenging. To condense her peanuts I have found that using a mortar and pestle and grinding it to peanut butter consistency works the best. Add a couple of chocolate chips and pray, LOL. How ironic that the foods that Megan is allergic to she hates and has aversions too. The body is truly amazing how it tries to protect a person from known allergies. Megan finished egg desensitization and HATES egg too. It is wonderful that we can use egg white powder mixed in pudding to get in her daily dose of egg.

A link to Dallas Allergy Immunology Newsletter

Dr. Wasserman's office puts out a newsletter and the current newsletter lists OIT information. http://app.cooleremail.com/v.pl?12be719003de7a55c526520b6b1472fa159e9b634eddb5c7

Eight PEANUTS

Today Megan dosed up to 8 peanuts!!! That is a whooping total of 16 peanuts a day, WOW!!

Human error

I somehow miscounted out Megan's peanuts when making her peanut clusters and instead of the 6 peanuts I accidentally counted out 7. So this past week she has been getting 7 peanuts instead of 6. Not a mistake that I am proud of but it happened.

Increasingly more difficult as we go

It is getting increasingly more difficult to get in the amount of peanut that Megan needs to eat every day for desensitization. Tonight I decided to crush up her peanut for tomorrows new dose up to see how it goes. The peanut clusters are getting larger and larger each week. I am thinking about taking the crushed up peanuts and Hershey's syrup and give it a go. I will have to say that peanut desensitization is much more difficult and the egg desensitization was due to the quantity factor. If I had one peice of advice for those thinking about desensitization when dealing with multiple anaphylactic food allergies my advice would be to start with something other than peanut because IMO it is so much more taxing than the egg ever was.

Texas Roadhouse

Today we went to Texas Roadhouse for the first time since Megan was a couple of months old. If you are not familiar with Texas Roadhouse, they have peanuts in the shell and after you eat them you throw the shells on the ground. Texas Roadhouse has been a forbidden restaurant due to the PEANUTS!!! It is Birthday season in our house and in past years we would celebrate at Texas Roadhouse. Megan did not touch or eat the peanuts but was around them and had no issues, AMAZING!!!! It was an evening of double cheers because not only was she around peanuts but she also enjoyed a salad with hard boiled eggs in it. This is something she could not have done last year but thanks to egg desensitization she could eat the salad. MEGAN STANDING ON PEANUT SHELLS

SIX PEANUTS

Well, it is Friday again and that means it is dose up day!! Megan is now at 6 peanuts. We are at the half way mark with regards to the number of peanuts per dose!!! After this week we will only have FOUR MORE WEEKS (7 peanuts, 8 peanuts, 10 peanuts and then 12 peanuts). Mommy is doing the happy dance.