Its been a long time

But I'm back! Things have been going well, it really has been amazing seeing how well the GFCF diet is working out. Derek adds 1-2 new words a week, though still doesn't always use all of his learned words often. Last night he sat on my lap and had a good 5 minute conversation with me, all in babble! Its great to see him doing that but I just wish I knew what he was saying to me. For the last two days we've pulled high phenol foods from his diet as well. He still has the red cheeks and dark circles under his eyes and those both usually indicated high phenol issues. So right now no more grapes, raisins, bananas, and applesauce. Of course the only fruit he was eating. *sigh* But they say that the foods they crave could very well be the ones that they are allergic too or have problems with. Next would be soy, and that will be interesting. Derek took to soy milk very well, I was surprised. But he just loves soy yogurt. Since cutting out the high phenol foods two days ago he's slept through two nights. He had been doing great then started waking again, or waking up around 5-6am only after 5-6 hours of sleep. We are still in waiting for an appointment at CDRC for an evaluation. Plus I need to get a list together of testing he should have done and present it to his pediatrician and cross our fingers that his insurance will at least cover a good portion of it. I'd much prefer he only get stuck once for any needed blood tests, rather get them out of the way now. That's where we are at now, I'll try to keep this more updated.