Caden's Journey

Allergy Testing #3.  Dec. 13, 2011.

This is the biggest series we have done, there are 18 sticks,
plus the -/+ at the top with 3 rows of five and the lst row
on the right being 3 sticks
 Same old drill, starting at the left and working down:
Row 1: #1 cottonwood-12x5, #2 Oak-9x5, #3 Kentucky Blue Grass-17x6,
#4 Timothy Grass-16x7, #5 Russian thistle-12x8

Row 2: #1-Ragweed,-6x3, #2 Cockroach-5x3, #3 Dustmite-6x4,
#4 cat-10x7, #5 dog-10x6

Row 3:  #1 alernaria(mold)-negative, #2 pen mix(mold), negative
#3 beef-negative, #4 pork-negative, #5 turkey-22x10

Row 4:  #1 Cod-17x9, #2 Salmon-17x7, #3 Tuna-18x8

Pic Submitted to Denver and John's Hopkins

Waiting For The Plane

Napping For First Round of The "Mummy"

The Mummy!

Doing this 3 times a day, 20 minute Bath,
Triamcinolone, wet wraps, then dry.  The
head wrap is a new item we haven't done
before now.  He is not happy with me right now!

These are Caden's favorite here at the
Ronald McDonald House, he visits them everyday as we leave
for the hospital.  Too cute.

Dec 12, 2011 Allergy Testing #2
Starting at left side and working down
(-): #1, corn, #2, oat, #3 rice,
#4 potato, #5 almond

Right side and working down
(+) #1 sesame seed, #2 walnut,#3 hazelnut,
#4 cashew, #5 tomato, #6 sunflower butter, #7 chicken

To have an allergy the welp next to the ink dot will show larger than
the antigen control prick located at the +/- sign at the top of the back.

SOOOO, this means he is allergic to oat, rice, almond, sesame seed,
walnut, hazelnut, cashew, sunflower butter and chicken.   

Dec 12, 2011.  Grumpy day.  Redness is subsiding as is swelling

Grumpy Monday Dec 12, 2011.  Again, Redness
and Swelling are much better.

Friday Dec 9, 2011

Dec 9, 2011 Allergy Testing #1

Super Model Pose.  He will kill me for this when
he's older, I know it.  But He is Such A Ham
Dec 9, 2011

Close Up Of Allergy Testing #1.  3rd welp on the left
is soy, largest welp on right is peanut.

One of his treats he earned on his sticker chart for all he has to do.
His child life specialist, Courtney, rewards him everyday with special
things as he fills his stars.  You can see them hanging on the door
behind him.  We just added page number 5 on dec 14.

redness and swelling even better today.  Dec 13, 2011

Dec 13, 2011.  feeling so much better day by day.  Happy Boy!

Dec 13, 2011.  The cracking has stopped and his skin is
closing up and healing.

Dec 13, 2011

Dec 14, 2011 Allergy Testing #4 
starting at left and working down
(-) #1 Apple-negative, #2 Banana-Negative
#3 Grape-Negative, #4 Garlic- 21x11

(+) #1 Onion 5x4, #2, Cantalope-Negative
#3 Watermelon-Negative, #4 Strawberries-Negative

So, this means today we have learned he is allergic
to garlic and onion.

Caden and The Hyena

Christmas 2010, boy we have come a long way!!

another old pic, this was april 2011.

an amazing cross with caden to show it's size.
looks to be carrera marble and just beautiful.

Allergy Testing #5, Dec 15, 2011

This is puddle testing, which is taking actual samples
of products instead of antigens and pricking (or scraping)
the back to see of there is a reaction.
The biggest difference is in his reaction to milk, soy and banana.
on the (-) side, working down as follows: #1 cow's milk-9x9, #2 soy-negative,
#3 apple-neg, #4 tomato-neg, #5 banana-8.3
(+) #1 melon-neg, #2 grape-neg, #3 strawberry-neg, #4 zyvox-neg

From this we have a bit of a quandary.  The milk tested higher, the soy
was opposite and went negative and the banana went positive.

The next step in the process is to continue healing the skin and avoiding
those foods he has had positive results to.  We will then "food challenge"
to see if he flares.  As his skin looks better and better we will  be able to
see the flares if  there is a true allergy.