Finding Food For Brookes Special Diet

Today Grandma and I headed for Clay Center to see what kind of food we could find for Brookes soon to be special diet. The 1st recommendation for children with autism is put them on the GFCF diet. GF stands for gluten free (wheat products) and CF stands for casein free (diary products). Wheat and Dairy are not easily digested by autistic kids, causing all types of problems. Casein not properly digested causes an opium like effect in their brains, and gluten causes a morphine like effect in their brains. Brookes Mom has decided to start the casein diet first. The quickest effect is seen taking away dairy products. Wheat products take a few months to leave the system. It takes a doctors order for day care and the school system to follow the diet, and thankfully Cora's family doctor has agreed to go along with the program.
Back to Clay Center. We went to Ray's Market, where there is a great selection of food. We hit pay dirt with a lot of GFCF foods. Linda picked up bread mix, chocolate chip cookie mix, pancake mix, almond(non dairy)milk, noodles, spaghetti, cake mix with icing, gluten free flour, gluten free crackers, and a brownie mix. After getting our groceries, we decided to show Cora our big finds. When I walked in her house, Brooke was laying on the couch with her. I called out Brookes name, and she actually responded. Usually, unless she sees me, she pretty much ignores me. She got a big smile on her face and came running over to me. Once again, a big hugger was mine. She pulled me to the closet where her dvd's are stored to get one. She can't quite reach them, so she took my hand and pushed it towards the dvd's. She knows what the dvd's are. I'm not quite sure how, but she knows. I started pulling one out of the pile, she made an agitated sound and pushed my arm back in. I went down the row and pulled out another. She took it from me a studied the front and back covers. It was Clifford the dog. She opened the case and tried to take it out. It was stubborn, so I helped her with it and put it in the player for her. She made sure I sat on the end of her bed so we could watch it together. I would get up and sneak into the living room. Brooke would say "Heah" and come walking over and drag me back to the bed. She even tries to pull me over so I will lay next to her and hold her. She loves being held. After 20 minutes of Clifford, I told Brooke I was going outside. She hopped in my lap and hung on tight, as if to say, ok, but I'm going with you. We stayed outside about 15 minutes, then decided to go home. I had not warned Brooke of this tonite, big mistake. I got in the car to leave and she saw us. She had to get passed Aunt Racheal and Mommy to get to our car. She broke right passed her aunt and Mom stopped her. She was crying and fighting for all she was worth. I got out of the car to give her a good-bye hug. She wrapped around me like a boa constictor and told her Mom bye. Mommy had to peel her off me, while Brooke was struggling and crying. I got back in the car, and Linda asked me if I had warned Brooke we were leaving soon. I said that I hadn't. I received a very good lecture on the importance of that missed step, and I totally agreed.
We were home about half an hour and my phone rang. It was Cora. She told me that Brooke had said "I'm Fine". Something had happened, and Brooke often says "U OK". Aunt Racheal had told Brooke she was alright and asked Brooke how she was. Brookes answer "I'm fine".
I asked Cora how long Brooke was upset after we left. She said she was sad a few minutes, then got over it and continued on her way.
Tomorrow, I call Kirkman Labs in Oregon to ask a few more questions about starting Brookes next supplement, DMG with folic acid and Methyl B-12.