Just Keeping On Keeping On

We've realized that we've hit a major stumbling block in Oliver's treatment. That is, his inability to communicate with us! When Oliver is being particularly cranky, we'll sometimes ask him if something hurts. He often nods yes and points to his mouth. We've tested this out on other occasions when we know what is hurting him (for example, when he bumps his head on something) and he'll point to the correct hurting body part. But, aside from pointing to his mouth, he can't tell us if he has a hard time swallowing food (his eating would indicate that he does), or if sometimes he hurts more than others. I feel like we can't move forward until either something drastic happens (as in, he starts vomiting frequently again or starts to loose weight) or until he can better tell us what he feels.

So, we just keep on doing what we're doing. He does seem to be doing well with his weight gain, despite the fact that some days, he refuses to drink some of his EleCare. I wouldn't describe him as being a happy kid, but who knows if it's just his temperament or if he's cranky because his throat hurts all the time. 

I did pull pork from his diet too. I mentioned previously that he was still vomiting occasionally and, well, he was also eating pork only occasionally. I looked at a food diary I had been keeping and felt like the times he ate pork corresponded well enough to the times he was getting sick, so I stopped giving it to him. Now, apart from an isolated incident last week, there's been no vomiting. We think that was due to some potato chips that he was eating that had a milk ingredient, which we didn't realize until after the fact (apparently, ridges require milk, the same brand, same flavor no ridges had no milk and we just weren't as careful as we should have been). Of course, there's no way to know for certain if that's what made him sick, but it's the only thing we can think of.