Keller Family Blog

Well we have one restaurant in Australia that we can all eat at:  McDonald’s Jaden can eat two things on the menu. A beef patty which has been placed in the box plain without bread and Fries also known as Hot Chips. The burger is 100% Australian beef with no Added Soy.  Jaden has not had a negative reaction to the fries though he has to the USA McDonald’s fries with their coating of Hydrogenated Soy.  Also Jaden could eat the fries at Burger King in the USA, but he can’t have the fries at their subsidiary here known as Hungry Jack’s as the sugar that coats them in Australia is derived from Wheat.

Needless to say if Crystal and the kids are out and about and need to get some food or when we are traveling we have an option to eat.  Not one that we would willing choose everytime, but it is possible.

Also the McDonald’s seem to always have a KFC near them, so for one occasion, we got Jaden’s at McD’s and everyone elses’ food at KFC.

While watching Giada on the Food Channel at my mom’s house, she mentioned sheep’s milk cheese.  I had just been pondering how Jaden will never have a Pizza because there wasn’t a cheese he could eat.  Well, perhaps this was the answer.  After a quick Google search, I found http://www.sheepdairying.com/Milk.htm which mentioned that many people allergic to cow and goat milk could safely consume sheep’s milk.  Well I found some Pecorino Romano cheese made with 100% Pure Sheeps Milk at a store in Louisville on Saturday (see post below) and we gave Jaden some about over an hour ago.

 I rubbed some on his arm at first.  His arm has shown no reaction.  If it had been Cow’s milk he would have had hives in that spot already.  Crystal came home with a watermelon and Jaden started grabbing it and some other foods and started eating.  Now his nose is running and he is coughing a little bit.  Uggh.  Was it the cheese or something else.  We will have to try again later.  I’ll report the conclusion and the progress as we test.

One hopeful thought was that Australia has a LOT of sheep so perhaps sheep’s milk cheese would be quite readily available in multiple types of cheeses.

The word from the doctor is that everything came back normal. No physical or emotonal reason is known. God is at work in our family. We’ll keep watching Shay and let you know if there is any more reason of concern.

Tiny update. I called the specialist today about her 24-hour heart monitor. The nurse on the phone said that the doctor needed to review the cardiologist’s findings before talking to us. That was this morning. Still no word now. I plan on calling again in hour or so.

Well I just got off the phone with the Doctor’s office. Shay’s echocardiogram came back normal, however the 24-hour monitor had not yet been “read”. So we are still left with some suspence. They said to try calling back tomorrow or Monday.

No Update….Well, when we called the Doctor’s office yesterday, the nurse said that the doctor was mistaken and the tests were going to take a week not 3 days.  We are to call back late next week.   Ughhh.

Today, we took it easy. We played and had fun as a family. Today was a glorious day. Plenty of sunshine and a light breeze. I thought we should fly kites, though when we arrived at my brothers the kids wanted to ride his Kubota instead. They had a blast. After playing they were thirsty. So we drank from the well on my brother’s property. (Great water.) Here is one of the pictures of Jaden getting his drink.

Shay’s heart has slowed down. We saw a specialist today who told us that all of her blood tests came back normal. Always nice to hear that our child is not mal-nourished. Well he still would like to see the results of the 24-hour monitor and the echocardiogram but we won’t have those for a couple of days.

Shay is her normal bouncy self today. She said, “I must be better since I can do a cartwheel and it doesn’t hurt.” We had the echocardiogram today. My guess is that it won’t show anything. Perhaps it will. Anyway she is much better, no pain and her heartrate is 90-100, which can be considered normal for her age. My prayer is that we would actually know what happened. We took the 24-hour monitor off today just before the echocardiogram. My guess is also that it may not help much. We’ll see tomorrow at 3 or 4.

Shay seems to be improving. Her heartrate/pulse seemed lower tonight.  Possibly around 100.  She said it doesn’t hurt as much. We’ll see what tomorrow holds and what God is doing as we go about the day.  For now this is a good sign.  I would like to say that I would love to know what is / has happened.  Many people are praying for Shay.  From our home church in Indiana to our churh in Florida and lots of friends and family from Ireland to Australia.