Let me first say that I am so grateful. I had a wake up call. It is so easy to feel like Max is sick when I see him in pain from his ears but when we stepped into the elevator at Children’s Hospital..well let me just say that I realized that I have no right to complain. Of curse, I am his mom and when he is pain-it breaks my heart but seeing little babies and kids sick and sick in a way that Max is not-it made me step back and feel the gratitude.See Max has choices and I have choices and lots of those kids at that hospital do not. I am sending love to all those kids.As for Max, it was not a fun apt. He had to be skin tested for a few different foods and environmental allergies. The doctor was nice and very informative. We talked for a while and he told me to try Max on soy, which I am not a fan of since he is a boy and does not need a lot of estrogen. But the doctor looked at me like I crazy when I told him that despite not testing positive on a skin test..I know he has allergies. I never tested positive either but when I had a blood test I did. He also looked at me like I was crazy when we were talking about Max having blood in his stool when he was very little. It was kind of nutty because he was telling me that I had nothing to worry about but then he was saying that Max may have allergies since he shows all of the sign-he gets rashes and zits and his stomach will hurt with certain foods etc. Thank goodness I called Daphne Goldberg, our family doctor, and told her all of this. She assured me that she agrees that Max is sensative to some foods like me. It is just so nutty when you are trying to get answers. But at least Max is not really sick because then it would be REALLY frustrating.
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