Week 5 - Day 4

(May 11, 2011)

I woke up this morning still trying to get a handle on the situation with Jeannette's recent infection.  I was so upset and frustrated last night and after a good night's sleep I still believe whole heartily that we are moving in the right direction of a healthy lifestyle.  I can't let one infection get the better of me or Jeannette.  I have to look at it that she hasn't had an infection since February.  This is probably the longest that she's gone in 3 years without having an infection.  That has to be encouraging.  Right?

For breakfast this morning, Jeannette had brown rice cereal. Again!  For lunch I packed her cinnamon/stevia toast, strawberries and chocolate coconut milk.  This is getting really boring and extremely annoying.  We're now into week 5 and she's still eating the same things every day.  For snack, she had popcorn and a rice cake.  Again, she should have had soy nut or almond butter on it, but didn't.  Today I put Miralax in her water bottle for while she's at school.

Today was dance class after school, so I had to get a snack for the road.  I grabbed her a bag of organic cheerios and dehydrated apples.  She likes them and they are low in sugar, so I can't see the problem with them, but I'm sure they are not considered appropriate for this diet.

For dinner tonight, Jeannette had her chicken from last night.  I gave her some ketchup and parmesan cheese to dip it in.  She had her supplemental shake and tonight I put in the chlorella which turned the shake a funky brown.  She wasn't happy, but she drank it anyway.  I tried to get her to eat a yogurt, but she wouldn't.  She did have her vitamin C and digestive enzyme, but missed her second dose of the mult-vitamin.  She did have her antibiotic of diflucan though.  these supplements are just a nightmare.  It's so hard trying to get her to take them and to figure out how to give them to her in what and when.  It's no wonder why I created a spreadsheet to keep tract of it all.