Hope. What a wonderful word.

Just a note to say Cooper is seeing another specialist on Monday and will be tested to see what he can tolerate now that he is 4. I HOPE that he can be more informative and helpful and at least give us some direction to move forward with all this. We've waited since May. Will post results when we know more.

We went out to dinner last night and we took some risks this week with Coopers food. So we paid the price for that and we were up for hours last night with me cuddling him, rubbing his back and him working through his stomach cramping. With him starting school late next year experimentation will have to be put on hold until school holiday time. He is such a brave little boy. I told him last night how much I loved him over and over again. I told him about the doctor and he just looked at me with a blank stare and didn't say a word. He was probably very tired.

Our Fructose and Sucrose Malabsorption Story

My beautiful little boy who is only 2 years old has been diagnosed with Fructose and Sucrose Malabsorption. What a ride it's been. He also has Milk Protein intolerance and Soy Intolerance. The milk and soy intolerance were easy to overcome, compared with the Fructose and Sucrose which has been far more challenging.

He was diagnosed through a Hydrogen Breath Test which was done at the Womens and Childrens Hospital in Adelaide Australia.

Before the test I knew something was very wrong. He was always getting stomach aches, not sleeping and whenever he got stomach aches his appetite would decrease. I suspected it was something to do with sugar. A mothers instinct is very strong.

We are now waiting to have a endoscopy and bowel biopsy. I will add more to our story soon...gotta go.