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Cheese Fantasies
Apr. 11th, 2005 06:13 pmThe EB gained 11 ounces since Thursday, so she is now almost a pound over her birthweight - finally! We're very very very glad she doesn't have to have extensive medical testing. Now that we're getting some of these issues straightened out, she's a lot more even-tempered and nicer to be around most of the time.
One of the things the doctor suggested last week was that I should cut dairy out of my diet, in case the EB is lactose-intolerant. I have done so, for the most part, and I must say, it is driving me CRAZY - and it's only been a few days!! I miss cheese so bloody much. I am, in fact, fantasizing about cheese. I am hoping to slowly re-introduce cheese in a day or two and monitor her, and if she shows no change, then I'll know that it isn't a problem. Oh, I hope, I hope, I hope. I'll say that with this restriction I am suddenly realizing that I shouldn't worry as much as I do about my calcium intake, because everything I think of to eat (and would eat, under normal circumstances) seems to have cheese. This has made coming up with ideas for something to eat far more difficult.
It's gorgeous out. Spring is definitely here (which is not to say that it can't - and won't - snow again). My daffodils are up, though looking a little puny and pathetic. I pulled dandelions from the lawn today - that's one of my obsessions. I'm not much of a gardener and can't do much about a lot of the appearance of our lawn, but dandelions are - sort of - within my control. If you just go outside at least once a day and spend 10 to 15 minutes digging out the damn things wherever they have appeared within the past 24 hours, you can generally stay reasonably on top of things. (It helps that we have a very small yard.) I also want to clean out the flower beds a little bit and think about starting some seeds for this year - always a losing battle (they never survive, somehow), but I have to try.
One of the things the doctor suggested last week was that I should cut dairy out of my diet, in case the EB is lactose-intolerant. I have done so, for the most part, and I must say, it is driving me CRAZY - and it's only been a few days!! I miss cheese so bloody much. I am, in fact, fantasizing about cheese. I am hoping to slowly re-introduce cheese in a day or two and monitor her, and if she shows no change, then I'll know that it isn't a problem. Oh, I hope, I hope, I hope. I'll say that with this restriction I am suddenly realizing that I shouldn't worry as much as I do about my calcium intake, because everything I think of to eat (and would eat, under normal circumstances) seems to have cheese. This has made coming up with ideas for something to eat far more difficult.
It's gorgeous out. Spring is definitely here (which is not to say that it can't - and won't - snow again). My daffodils are up, though looking a little puny and pathetic. I pulled dandelions from the lawn today - that's one of my obsessions. I'm not much of a gardener and can't do much about a lot of the appearance of our lawn, but dandelions are - sort of - within my control. If you just go outside at least once a day and spend 10 to 15 minutes digging out the damn things wherever they have appeared within the past 24 hours, you can generally stay reasonably on top of things. (It helps that we have a very small yard.) I also want to clean out the flower beds a little bit and think about starting some seeds for this year - always a losing battle (they never survive, somehow), but I have to try.
