Middle America's Worldview

Friday for me.

Yesterday evening my wife was given some astounding information. Our son is highly allergic to milk. The thought is this is what is causing his staring out. Those unaware, our son has small seizures called staring out. To us or the outside it appears as if he is just daydreaming or zoning. It was explained to us like a lightbulb that goes off and nothing comes in till its back on. He receives nothing as far as information for those periods of times. This news came at once, literally around 4 p.m. My wife came in all excited, 'this may be the answer we were needing!' . I couldn't help but be a bit reserved. Seems she was consulting women at church and doing research about it for quite some time. ( God knows when she had the chance ) Researching the abilty to dispell ADHD and staring out by diets. I was astounded of info online where kids with ADHD lost symptoms entirely just by their diet change. Did you know milk held the highest product of people being allergic? More so then peanuts? I didn't.

Kelli explained to me the means of the Dr.'s testing him for allergic. If I wrote it, you would think it was as crazy as I did when I heard it. But it had to do something with a reaction of the vega nerve. The other interesting aspect was this same Dr. consulted with another Docter in Tulsa by phone, giving out the symptoms. She immediately told him it was due to an allergic reaction of milk and by removing it from his dietary would elimanate 90 percent of his problems. This could also assist his speech ( speech therapy is where we take him each day ). This is what prompted the allergic test. Note the Tulsa Doctor was not told of anything but his symptoms. Want more interesting info? He mainly drinks chocolate milk every freaking day. The kid can't get enough of it. So it's looking more and more like this could really be it.

I don't mean to be skeptical and I hardly know everything, not much of anything when you look at the big picture. But my main fear is another setback in Kelli's resolve. However, she genuinely glows when discussing it and I have to admit it sounds verrrryyy likely. We will be going cold on milk around here for at least 5 days to see the results. It will take 72 hours for the milk to be clean from the system. We should see dramatic results by Monday. We had parent/teacher conferences last night and informed his teacher and assitant. They are excited to see if any improvement occurs as much as we are. The kid is smart, no doubt about it. Even with his staring out occuring nearly 50 times a day he is one of the first 3 to have his bee on the board. This means he knows his phone #, address, town, state, ect. I was impressed considering it was from the whole class of about 17 kindergarten students. So I will definitely post the outcome. I joked to Kelli's friends last night, rather the kids smelling booze on our breath, they will smell milk. We will become closet milk drinkers. : )

Yesterday morning, I assisted the Grandparents Lunch at school. I helped as a dishwasher. I figured l let the pretty ladies out in the front while I stayed in the back. At least that is what I told them. Personally, I rather do the job few like. It always make it go by much faster and I do not like just standing around out there. It seemed to go well. The plates just kept coming. There were a stack of them in the corner ( normally 3-4 stacks at at time ). My goal by mid morning was to hit that corner stack. But no sooner than I was nearing it, the next class of kids was dumping their trays on us and I was behind again. This along with the kitchen ladies putting silverware and pots in front of my plates ( they had only one of those steamed dishwashers running 90 seconds per turn ) kept me behind. I had to leave at noon to go to work, and never did make it to that freaking stack. Oh well. At least I was of some help.

The parent/teacher confernces went really good. Both teachers had good things to say on our kids. I was impressed and proud of both of them. Each seemed to be accomplishing above their peers and personally that's how I like it. Can't help it, you want your kid to be the best. No-one is perfect and mine included, but each teacher had good things to say about them.

I also ran to Walmart after 10 p.m. last night acquiring non-milk drinks, products for the weekend. Wish us luck.