Girl w/Pen info and the latest poo update

Perhaps it's inappropriate to have both these topics in one blog post...

The more academic information first:  Amber Cantrell, who's my research assistant this summer, has written a great post at Girl w/Pen about one of our initial observations about the research project we're undertaking.  Have a look, and leave a comment for Amber!

And now the poo update:  the good news from Dr. Sperry is that Maybelle does not have any of the following things:

• ova and parasites
• shigella
• salmonella
• giardia

Hurray for the stool samples proving that there's nothing seriously wrong.  She had three days of no poo (another hurray!) and happily attended school, but this evening she did produce some evidence that perhaps the diarrhea hasn't entirely disappeared.  Alas.  We're currently trying a gluten-free diet to see what that does--Sperry suggested three weeks of that.  We're on day four, and it's actually fairly easy given that most of Maybelle's favorite foods either don't contain gluten (Veggie Booty, for instance) or have gluten-free substitutes (waffles, remarkably).

We'll see what happens.  Here's a happy photo from our afternoon so that I can end on a positive note.