Jacob has been waiting for this day for a LONG time. Since April he has been doing his peanut desensitization. Each week we go to the doctor and he is given a "dose" of peanuts. At the beginning the dose was given in Kool Aid. About a month later it was given in peanut flour that was added to pudding, applesauce or yogurt. He tolerated everything until about a month ago when we jumped from 100mg of peanut flour to 250mg of peanut flour. He had a rough week and then when we jumped to 500mg the next week he got sick and had to repeat that dose for an extra week.
Which brings us to today...
We went at 8:45 this morning for his first peanut M & M. He needed to take two... which he did without any complaining and off we walked to the waiting room. Within a minute he said his throat was hurting and he couldn't swallow and then up came all the peanut M&M's. I quickly grabbed a trash can and the poor thing threw up everything in his body. He was such a trooper!! We met with the doctor and he will need to do another week of the 500mg of peanut flour which he is NOT looking forward to. We head back to the doctor next Tuesday and will try again to eat those peanut M&Ms. Thank goodness Scott was able to come today! He came for what we thought was going to be an exciting appointment. An extra set of hands was a huge blessing this morning.
Deep down I know we are doing what is best for Jake. This really will change his life and give him much more independence as he gets older.... but I hate seeing his poor little body going through all of this. I just keep telling myself that the end result will be worth every minute we have spent helping his body learn to tolerate peanuts.
I really should also mention how great the girls have been through all of this!! The amount of hours we have spent at Dr. Molis's office this summer is CRAZY!! Between allergy shots and peanut appointments, we have spent MANY hours each week sitting in a doctor's office. The office staff has honestly watched Molly grow up and they have been so great to the kids! We have met some really nice families as well. All the peanut allergy kids have to sit with yellow timers in the waiting room for an hour after each dose to watch for side effects so you get to know the families and it has been a great mentoring system for me to get to talk to other moms with kids going through the desensitization. We really do feel blessed to live in Des Moines. I know so many people that would LOVE to have their children in this process and it isn't offered in many states yet!!
We love you Jake!!!
He was SO excited. If only he knew what was about to happen!!!
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