Do you believe in that saying?
Well I have decided after the incident with my son to start to reevaluate and take back our health. I am leaning towards a gluten free diet as the major culprit to eliminate. It might take a few months to rid the pantry of such comfort foods. My Italian great grandmother is probably rolling over in her grave cursing some profanity for being so cruel to my family. “What good Italian mother doesn’t give her children pastina?”
Before my Nannie Jo should hold her hand up with her fist to the heavens, it will take some time to fully go gluten free. As I am not throwing food out. I will use what I have and replace with what I need, when I finished what I already have.
I can’t afford to be wasteful or extreme. I know some might not agree with me and provide studies that gluten isnt’ bad if you don’t have a deficiency. I WAS a pharmaceutical baby if you will. I was told the medications I was on was OK with my chronic condition. Yeah ok, so were the steroids injections. Oh and the implant you want to put in my neck. Its all ok. Don’t get me wrong I would in a heart beat go to my medicine cabinet for my nerves if it got that bad again or head to the ER. I just don’t want to be on medication daily and I don’t want my son to be on daily medications either.
What was the point of that? The point is to show that just because someone in the medical field says its good for you doesn’t mean it is.
For long term there has to be way to help with this. Nutrition has to be key, it just has to help. We are what we eat, right? So many changes underway and I am going to make sure my family is eased into it. Everything I add with supplements, enzymes and oils. I will consult with my doctor and my kids pediatrician to see how much I can really take. I want to make sure their is no interactions with each supplement or overdosing on certain things.
Now with the above said I won’t be a “GLUTENZILLA” If my kids are out and at a friends house and eat Pizza, fine, we are at a birthday party and they have a slice a cake, so be it.
Today was a rough day for me with my son. Four days on benedryl and steroids and no other medication. MY son looked and acted like a monkey on crack. I have never seen a monkey on crack however if I had to envision what that would like, I think my son nailed it.
I can’t wait for my son to be fully healed with his latest reaction and start our journey for a natural path. One step at a time.
