Day 5

Not too exciting today.  Max woke up this morning and I didn't have to fight with him to get out of bed.  That was nice.  On the other hand, he can't go to bed every night at 6:40 so I am sure I will have to fight with him most mornings. 

Max came home from school and said that he had to miss part of a recess because he hadn't gotten all of his work done in time. 

breakfast: cinnamon toast on gluten free bread and g/d free margarine
lunch: hot dog, catsup, carrot sticks, applesauce.  he didn't eat his applesauce
snack: loramer bar.  Max doesn't like it, bummer.  that seemed like an easy snack
snack: kettle corn
supper: salmon burger, salad, rice.
snack: fruit rollup and tofu fudgecicle.

The salmon burger wasn't too bad.  Better than I expected.  Max ate half, he refused salad, and didn't want the rice.  But, like my dad had me do when I was a kid, we poured milk (almond milk in this case) over the rice.  He actually ate it.  :)

symptoms: circles under his eyes are looking better today.  he didn't get his work done in school.  he didn't seem quite as tired today either. 

Also on the positive side: hot dogs stay half way warm in a thermos.  Who knew?!

On the downside, or upside, depends on which way you look at it... Ron and I have started the process of getting a second opinion for Max.  We are looking into finding a psychologist that can do assesments such as IQ testing and other testing to get a diagnosis based off of numbers instead of me saying he gets down from the dinner table early and his teacher saying he fidgets with his shoe.  Ron and I were sad about it last night, no one wants their child to struggle and I feel like if we don't take this step than we are forcing him to struggle, but if we do take this step then it is a whole different kind of struggle.  Ron and I figure, though, that we better get the ball rolling on this because it could take several weeks for any kind of answers and if the diet change does not work then I want to be ready for the next step, whatever that might be.