Tonight was our first gluten "challenge" for Melanie. It can take about three months for gluten to leave the system and for any needed gut healing to be completed. We removed gluten in January, but about a month into it there was a woopsey which kind of hit the reset button on the whole experiment. So tonight was the night I decided to give it a try. She had about one serving of my sister's whole wheat sourdough bread. I wanted the challenge to be a quality, whole grain food. But she did also have about half of the bakery cookie that grandma bought her yesterday (sorry mom, I ate half of it-- it was for Melanie's good...).
Please pray that we see clearly in the next couple days if she has any negative reactions to the gluten. We doubt that we have seen any improvement attributable to going GF, but hopefully this challenge will make it clear to us.
James was excited about the fun plastic wine cups I just bought, so he decided it would be fun to have a "Cup Day." All of our food today was served in cups: Dinner was eggs, chicken sausage and French toast sticks. Lunch was James's sandwich cut in strips, with cups of berries and veggies. Mom and Melanie shared guacamole. I don't think this was our last Cup Day. :-)
I am happy to provide an eyewitness report on Melanie the day after she had the family-provided homemade bread and bakery cookie: Melanie was wonderfully merry and bright the entire time she was here in our home on Thursday. No ill-effects from the re-introduction of gluten were observed.
ReplyDeleteThank you, dear Lord, for the sweet and precious gift of Melanie Rose.
Corinne