HELLO MILLIGRAMS!!!!

 

This is crazy! This is nerve-wracking! This is exciting! This is terrifying! Another Thursday, another updose! I won't be using one of my 'OIT is boring" memes because the week wasn't 100% smooth sailing. There was a rash. There was a cold. There was some coughing. It was a bit up and down whether we'd even be able to go in today--- but we were able to and he graduated out of the micrograms and proceeded into the milligrams! That is HUGE!!!!

Once again I was stressed about showing up late (however it is impossible to show up precisely on time since he only gets home at 3:50 and has to pee & change before leaving & we are about a half hour away). We really are a sight to see in the 120 seconds we take from him arriving home from school to us running back out that door! We were seven minutes late to our 4:15 appointment. Too much for my liking, but okay enough.

The doctor checked him out and said we were good to updose!!!!

Good to the last drop!

'I just updosed to 1 milligram- 1/300th of a peanut'! WOOT WOOT!!!!

'I just leveled up' is right!

The hour passed by relatively calmly with Coby being checked every 20 minutes (and obviously if he needed more or 'something' started happening they would have been there in a second). The only 'excitement' was that Coby couldn't manage to keep his tiny tush on the rolie chair with wheels and he kept falling off! At a certain point he decided to just climb up onto the wheel-less furniture!

He also was kept entertained as we decided to watch some videos of Esther's wedding which took place in Israel today. "Oh my goodness mom, is she married now?!" "YES!" "Oh my goodness- does that mean she has a baby now too?" Too cute!!! He was so excited to watch it happening since he vividly remembers their visit this past summer. Though I think part of him is happy it wasn't Shoshana who got married- since he still has his eyes set on her! ;) After all what is an eight or nine year difference? MAZAL TOV YOU GUYS!!!!!

After the hour was up the doctor checked him again (on top of the pre-check, and the 3 checks during the hour) and gave us our new dose! If all goes well he will be going up by MORE than double next week to 2.5 mg!!!

Truth be told that number is really really frightening to me. That number would be the 1/120th of a peanut point. And I cannot get one of his allergist's words out of my head, "It will take something as little as 1/100th of a peanut to have his throat closing in seconds." And we are inching closer and closer to that point... Next updose would be 1/120th and the following updose would be 1/60th. I don't even know what to think about those amounts. I will be all over the place!

We discussed some future issues that are going to be coming up soon. We discussed the zyrtec and environmental allergies. (And if anyone is interested it is another nine updoses before he'd be moving from the liquid to the capsules stage-which is stage 2- of OIT)

BUT it went well today. I didn't get lost driving in either direction, the weather was fine for the drive. And all these little blessings are huge successes in my book!

On the way home driving down route 17 near home we passed by a lot with a fire-engine on it and standing on the top of the fire-engine waving to all was.... SANTA!!!!

Coby proceeded to ask me, "Mom, is that the REAL Santa?!"

Me, "Gee hun, I don't know."

Coby, "Really, is he the real one????"

Me, "I'm Jewish sweets. I never got to meet the real one- but who knows!"

I'm not one to cut down the innocence, the believings, or the magic of childhood.

And what can I say, I believe too!!!!

In Santa. In the tooth-fairy. In Tinker-bell. In it all!

And that my friends is how you never grow up!!!!

Believe that ANYTHING is possible! And my little warrior is doing just that every single dose he takes!

*Four hours after dosing his breathing seemed a bit loud but he is in good spirits. We recorded it for the doctor if needed. Hoping it's just a fluke. But on the brighter side- he was telling me how he was explaining to his friends about updosing and how he will be doubling up from 500 micrograms to 1000 micrograms which is equivalent to 1 milligram--- how's that for math in the 3rd grade! ;)