u/HostaLavida

First, the failure: Don’t be a goober like me. 😅 I was desperately craving chips. Dreaming about them even. I was in the grocery store and on a whim looked in the chip aisle. Found! Potato chips with only olive oil and sea salt. Y’all, I was blinded. I forgot that potatoes are on the no-no list (latex fruit syndrome). Cue tongue swelling and throat itchy, difficulty swallowing, and itchy skin. So, epi pen, 911, a ride on the booboo bus (or krankenwagen if you feel fancy), IV Benadryl, then some other fancy stuff at the ED and 3 scripts sent to the pharmacy. The icing on the forbidden cake was a very very very expensive uber ride to get the 1.5 mile ride back home.

ON TO THE SUCCESS!! I decided a few days ago that egg yolks might be okay. I’m not allergic to eggs, just wildly, impressively intolerant to egg whites. Today I purchased a dozen high quality eggs and a nice man even got the freshest carton they had from the back (histamine intolerance). I had 2 hard boiled egg yolks with my strange dinner (oatmeal and Brussels sprouts). It went perfectly! I could not be more thrilled. Well, I would be more thrilled if it could be potatoes, but I’ll take the win.

So currently I’m able to have 3 veggies, one meat, oats, a little olive oil, and egg yolks. If you count the oil and a really tiny bit of dark chocolate, that brings me to rock star status with a total of 8 things I can eat. This feels huge and amazing. I picked up a few more things that are a 0 on the histamine scale and not currently on the nono list. I’m going to carefully trial them, and I feel hopeful.

A bonus is that my ex told me his coworker’s chickens (she has a farm) are currently laying well over 100 egg a day. So I will get farm fresh eggs every week. I doubt they’ll be as expensive as the 9 dollar dozen I got today. Probably free which I can definitely afford.

Anyone else have a recent success (or dumbass failure) they’d like to share?