His challenge is scheduled for 1 PM today. I'm nervous. Details to follow.
Best of luck! Tell Dr. N and Ingrid we say hello ;)
Good luck! Hoping for the best outcome!
Good luck GoingNuts!
:luck:
Good luck!
Good luck! I hope you get the outcome you want :)
Best of luck!
I'm waiting for him to get ready to leave. Of course he's balking at their "ridiculous" rules about how much to eat and when. At 19, he thinks "breakfast" is something you eat at noon, and being a male adolescent with the metabolism of a hummingbird, thinks 4 slices of pizza is an appropriate "morning" meal. ~)
Quote from: GoingNuts on December 16, 2013, 09:37:06 AM
I'm waiting for him to get ready to leave. Of course he's balking at their "ridiculous" rules about how much to eat and when. At 19, he thinks "breakfast" is something you eat at noon, and being a male adolescent with the metabolism of a hummingbird, thinks 4 slices of pizza is an appropriate "morning" meal. ~)
You mean it's not :hiding: I was not blessed with a hummingbird metabolism and given that four slices of pizza at noon sounds fine, you understand where my weight issues come into play LOL
Thinking of you today!!
Oh, good luck. Good Luck Good Luck Good Luck! :crossed: :crossed: :crossed:
Almonds would be so wonderful to have in the diet. Hoping it works out!!
(sorry about the car issues)
Knock wood, poo poo poo. Third dose in. So far, so good.
Fingers crossed it continues!! And glad you made it there, despite car issues!
very very cool! Hoping for continued success!
:crossed:
Watching avidly for updates and hoping for GOOD, GOOD news. :heart:
Came between meetings to see how it's going!
No official determination, but no reactions. ;D
We're waiting for Dr. Nowak now.
No reaction is definitely good news, no matter how you look at it!! :heart:
ooh. promising.
crossing fingers toes an paws here...... :yes:
Yay for no reaction! :happydance:
I came to FAS to see how it went. Is it a pass?!?!?
Passed?
It was a pass. ;D The only casualty of the day were my glasses, which broke when I took them off to read something and I dropped a water bottle on them. :dunce:
Now the challenge will be to find non-Xcontaminated almonds. Blue Diamond are now on shared equipment with every darned tree nut known to mankind. I really don't want to have to buy raw ones, wash them, roast them, etc.
But hey, I can make almond butter buckeyes! :thumbsup:
Congratulations!!!!
This is the response I got from Blue Diamond:
Thank you for contacting Blue Diamond Growers with your product inquiry.
First, Blue Diamond only processes almonds; however, the transportation equipment used to transfer the almonds from the orchards to the processing facilities is shared with other nut growers. Many of our almond growers in our grower co-op have other tree nut orchards (separate from the almond orchards).
Let me emphasize that the harvested almonds are NOT shipped together with any other nuts; however, because the equipment is shared , it is possible that a stray walnut, pistachio or hazelnut be left behind in the dumpers.
With our tightly controlled processes, it si unlikely that something like that would get through our system and into our finished/packaged products, but in the event it does, we need to inform our consumers of the possibility with that statement on our packages.
Other tree nuts would include walnuts, pistachios and hazelnuts.
I hope that this information is helpful; however, if I can be of further assistance, please feel free to contact me.
Okay, well that is less contact than I thought.
Congrats!!!
Congrats - big day for the FAS kids!
yay!!! congratulations!!! it is a big day for fas kids indeed!!!
Found 'em!
http://us.wonderfulalmonds.com/wa_static_ipad/faq.php (http://us.wonderfulalmonds.com/wa_static_ipad/faq.php)
WooHOOO!!! Yay for the pass!!! Yum, almonds! How very exciting..... :happydance:
Quote from: GoingNuts on December 16, 2013, 06:05:39 PM
Now the challenge will be to find non-Xcontaminated almonds. Blue Diamond are now on shared equipment with every darned tree nut known to mankind. I really don't want to have to buy raw ones, wash them, roast them, etc.
Congrats!
Maybe something like this would work for the almonds?
http://www.barneybutter.com (http://www.barneybutter.com)
Links, that's what they use for The challenge. And it comes in chocolate, too! ;D
I'm going to bake Cookies with it on Wednesday. :thumbsup:
:happydance: on passing, and I'm glad you found ones that he can eat.
:thumbsup:
Wonderful news!!
:happydance: :happydance:
Wonderful also makes pistachios. We buy both the almonds and pistachios.
Just read your link. Oh wow. Okay we need to put this IMHO in the Pn free tn thread. So cool!!!
GN you can get them right? super Target sells them.
I cried the first time I bought almonds in a store.
so happy to read about another pass. ;D
OK, I have a few minutes to expand on yesterday's visit.
They divided the dose into 4 servings, waiting 10-15 minutes between doses, with each dose getting progressively larger. He had a total of about 2 Tbsps. of Barney Almond Butter. He had no symptoms at all, but if he had, the RN was stationed right outside the door, with Dr. Nowak nearby. She came in between doses to check his breathing, etc.
With this pass, Dr. Nowak instructed him to be sure to eat some at least 2X a week for the first 6 months (more if he doesn't get tired of it!) to be sure that his immune system is really tolerating it. I have instructed him not to eat it unless his father or I are home for at least the first few weeks, just to be sure, and not to exercise afterwards.
He is due to come back in the spring, and I know DS would rather find someone locally (and one that isn't exclusively pediatric, given that he is turning 20 in a few weeks), but as long as they are willing to see him I'd rather continue because I like the way they do challenges there. He may also be able to do a chick pea challenge, which he was initially "meh" on, but I think he's starting to see the value of adding chick peas to his diet.
Alas, the allergen he would really like to get rid of is sesame, and that has shown no signs of abating whatsoever. :tongue:
So that's the story. We're pretty happy. I can't stop thinking about the baking implications. For one, I could have actual "mandel" (almond in Yiddish) in my mandel bread!
That sounds like more or less the standard protocol that our allergist (a Sinai product) also follows for challenges.
He starts with the vehicle, and then adds allergen slowly. How slowly depends on patient history, evidently.
I'm just SO thrilled for you guys, GN! :D
It's really the freedom from another allergen rather than the food but it's nice when you can have the traditions. Dr. Nowak certainly seems like the doctor to have. I'm sheepishly considering moving from Sicherer to her. I'm not sure you can change within a practice though.
Congratulations! What a nice add to your kitchen!
that is wonderful news!!!! YAY!!! your allergist sounds like ours!! we were there for a total of 6 hrs and got up to two tablespoons of peanut butter!!
and our allergist said to keep the epi pens for another year just incase..and then if no issues after a year we do not have to renew them..yay!!
Wow - congrats! That's wonderful news. Almonds are such a fun thing to be able to use.
More good news! Congrats on the pass!
Quote from: twinturbo on December 17, 2013, 04:48:30 PM
It's really the freedom from another allergen rather than the food but it's nice when you can have the traditions. Dr. Nowak certainly seems like the doctor to have. I'm sheepishly considering moving from Sicherer to her. I'm not sure you can change within a practice though.
I'm sure you can TT. FWIW, I love Dr. Sicherer, but he's not on our insurance. I think DS would really like him too, especially because adolescent boys relate better to men. And he has a goofy sense of humor. ;)
Dr. Nowak has a lovely, soft, nurturing manner that I think probably translates well with younger kids. She really is a doll.
Boo, he's really thrilled because he's been in search of a shelf-stable, healthy snack at school. He has given up on beef jerky (where is a retching emoticon when you need one?), and was hoping to have a reasonably healthy, satisfying alternative. :thumbsup:
I got out of work too late today to go buy the Wonderful almonds, and I guess he was too lazy. I guess it will be tomorrow or Friday.