Cluster Headache Dietary Trials - Day 3
Ben awakes with a cold. He curses Drew Pearson who coughed indiscriminately on everyone at Monday night's meeting. Ben's appetite, however, does not seem to be affected. He eats another hearty breakfast of eggs, bacon, and toast - after vainly lobbying for a bowl of Captain Crunch.
Right after breakfast:
Ben solicits my help in a search for the three-hole-punch. While I am digging for it, I notice he is speaking around a wad of gum. He explains that he had found an old piece of gum, but was unable to master the ground-in wrapping. While thinking to himself that no candy is worth this trouble, he remembers he has a newer piece somewhere in his cubby drawer. He later swallows it.
Sometime during school:
Ben intersperses study with orders for lunch. (I had formerly agreed to make some zesty fries with lunch today.) Luke, disgusted, with the unmanful begging, declares, "Ben, if you were thrown in a vat of fries, you would eat yourself." Ben responds by pulling up his shirt and pretending to rub ketchup on his belly.
Grammar circle:
An actual conversation held during grammar exercises:
Allie: Because of Ben, I have been deprived of fatty, fried foods.
Luke: And yet you are still big.
I bring up a small veggie tray with ranch dip and a can of assorted nuts. Ben devours some Brazil nuts and begins to flop around seal-like on his brother's back. (I say nothing because I am beginning to regard these exertions as exercise.)
Sometime before lunch:
I announce there will be no zesty fries with lunch. It is not until this moment I discover that Allie has skipped breakfast in anticipation of zesty fries.
Lunch:
All is quiet as Allie fixes a simple lunch of two Claussen pickles, one exploded hot dog, and a honey crisp apple. Ben pulls out veggies for yet another hoagie. He again loudly protests the sad state of all bread in this house. Allie is having trouble speaking to me, and won't make eye contact.
During lunch:
I am alone upstairs waiting for the children to finish their prison lunches.
After lunch:
Allie flops onto the couch declaring she is being punished because of Ben.
Ben erroneously prepares a package of cook and serve pudding according to the directions for instant. It doesn't set up.
Math time - outdoor classroom:
Allie brings her package of Sour Patch Kids to math class. At some point yesterday, she spit in it - to protect it from further pillage. Ben eats one anyway, and complains about the stickiness. He later chomps on a honey crisp apple. He feeds Bushrod the core.
Half way through math:
We head back inside to finish, and I transform the cook and serve pudding into hot chocolate by adding milk, vanilla, and heat. Ben tops his with sprinkles. Allie drinks hers from a flowery teacup.
Dinner:
We have chicken and dumplings and Allen's homemade baked beans and weenies. Allie comes down late and Ben has eaten all the baked beans.
True story:
Luke arrives upstairs and spies the leftover bag of Sour Patch Kids. I quickly warn him that Allie has spit in them. He eats the last five. (And drinks my ice water.)
Later:
We turn on satellite radio and Ben logs in some dance time with Luke. They then take turns testing the limits of Allie's claustrophobia. Afterward, Ben and Allie wrestle off aggressions - and calories. Ben admits to having four starbursts before dinner.
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