Jackson's Allergy Test Results

We finally got Jackson's allergy test results, well most of them anyway. Wheat and Peanut testing were not done because "Specimen deterioration or loss has occurred such that testing is no longer possible." That figures. At least I know he isn't allergic to shell fish like I am. Maybe some day we will find out why Jarrett and Jackson are always congested.

Milk <0.05
Wheat Testing not performed.
Corn <0.05
Peanut Testing not performed.
Soybean <0.05
Pork <0.05
Beef <0.05
Fish/Shell mix <0.05
Egg, Whole <0.05
Chocolate/Cocoa <0.05

Jarrett's Allergy Tests

I asked my doctor to do blood allergy tests after reading about it on someone elses blog. He had some scratch tests in July and they were all negative. I questioned them because he was supposed to sit still for 20 minutes to give the test a chance. Yea, right. What 3 year old is going to sit still for 20 minutes. Anyway, Jarrett's tests came back negative on all except for 1 that was Equivocal (just barely). Here are the results. <0.05 means it is negative. 0.05 - 0.07 is Equivocal and it keeps going up from there. He is borderline allergic to corn. I don't think there is any danger of having a reaction because it is borderline and he doesn't eat corn.

Milk <0.05
Wheat <0.05
Corn 0.05
Peanut <0.05
Soybean <0.05
Pork <0.05
Beef <0.05
Fish/Shell mix <0.05
Egg, Whole <0.05
Chocolate/Cocoa <0.05


Jarrett is doing well in preschool and is going potty more and more each week. He may be potty trained before he heads off to kindergarten, at least I hope.

Chris's football game and other updates

Last night Chris played football against Salina South High School. He recovered a fumble, helped to stop Salina from scoring 2 on an extra point and had several good tackles to help Maize defeat Salina 36 to 28 in overtime. It was a real good game and if we figure out how to get the video off my camera we will post it here. I don't have any pictures because the zoom on my camera doesn't zoom enough.

In other news, Jarrett went pee-pee in the potty this morning. For those who know how much we have struggled with Jarrett lately you know how big a deal that is. We are planning to take Jarrett to Aunt Kay so she can give us her opinion on his speech and if she thinks he needs therapy or not. Right now we have 2 opinions, Heartspring says yes and Maize said no. Jarrett has been moved to a new room at preschool so he can be with kids his own age despite his lack of potty training. He is doing better discipline wise but yesterday he pushed another kid and the other kid retaliated. Maybe that will make him think twice next time. Overall I think he is doing better. Once a week he is visited by someone from the Maize school district to help with "delays in social/emotional, behavioral and fine motor skills." Please say a prayer for us. It has been very stressful.

One other thing, I am trying to get blood allergy tests for Jarrett and Jackson. I know they are allergic to something we just aren't sure what. Skin tests were done on Jarrett in July but he was supposed to stay still for 20 minutes for the test to be good and you can just imagine how that went. That's all for now.