Today we traveled to Duke for our first "regular" visit. We moved up to the next dose and will spend the next two weeks with that size dose. Today, they took his height, weight, blood pressure and listened to his heart and lungs, then we fed him his dose for the day and the waiting game began! He is monitored for two hours after ingesting the peanut protein to make sure he is able to handle that dose. He was fine today...at one point they thought they heard a little rattle in the chest, but it was nothing and was probably just some general congestion from the cold he has had. So, he did just fine and we headed home with our next bag of doses! We will go back in two weeks for our next visit.
Today was fun in that we got to visit with other families who are doing the different trials. One girl is on the same schedule as our son. It will be neat to see them both progress together. It was also nice to see some of the older kids and we saw one family heading home with their maintenance dose of peanut and they won't return until the fall! I can't wait to get him to the maintenance dose. If all goes well, we will hit that in 10 months. If a child has any issues, sometimes they will drop them back a dose or two (or more) to let their bodies figure it out and catch up again. So, again, it is very individualized and focused on that kid or adult.
So, it was an exhausting day, but a good one!
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