Baby Steps

It's been a whirlwind of a summer.  VBS, a trip to Great Wolf Lodge, Camp "Memaw and Grandpa" for the boys, Preteen Camp for me and Brendan, and then a family trip to Washington D.C.  In the midst of all of that activity, we have still traveled to Dallas once a week to increase Brendan's egg doses.  On April 30, Brendan's first day of OIT, we left the office with instructions to eat 6 milligrams of egg twice daily.  By mid-July, Brendan had increase his dose 100 fold, to 600 milligrams of egg.  Things were running so smoothly that I began to count down to the end of egg OIT, and to Brendan's graduation day.

Our family in front of the Capitol building in D.C., under scaffolding.
A reminder that we're all works in progress :).

But 600 milligrams would prove to be a tough dose and stick us in neutral for three weeks.  First there was the vomiting at my parents' house during Camp Memaw and Grandpa on his 600 milligram dose.  Then, there was a stomach ache (we managed NOT to vomit that time!) from his 900 milligram dose the next week at Preteen Camp.  We tried once more to updose to 900 milligrams and got a stomach ache in the doctor's office that time.  So, for three weeks we tried to push forward, but kept stepping back to his 600 milligram dose.

At our updose appointment this week, the PA had a different idea-- one that had been in my mind, too.  How about a baby step up from 600 milligrams?  And so we tried it.  750 milligrams.  No problems in the doctor's office.  No problems at home so far, either!  We are finally moving forward again!

That scheduled graduation date that I've had in my mind has been pushed back a full month now.  I have decided to take things one step at a time now, and not think about exactly when Brendan may graduate.  The idea of omelettes and fluffy pancakes from a restaurant still swirls around my mind.  We will get there someday-- if we make great strides at each appointment, that will be wonderful.  But baby steps will get us there, too.  Slow and steady wins the race.