The thing about the kidney failure diet that bugs my baby the most is not being able to eat chocolate. Since she was tiny child, it's been her favorite thing. She was very malnourished when we got her, and she didn't much care for milk, so I actually added chocolate syrup to get it into her (Hey! I know it's bad parenting, but sometimes you just have to do what you have to do!). She was the child who did the happy dance outside the oven for the entire 28 minutes the brownies baked.
So I was thinking that Halloween was going to be one ugly holiday for her. She isn't really a big candy fan. Skittles and Gummy Bears hold no real appeal for her. Starburst? Okay, I guess. Smarties? You can have those, mom. But Reese's Peanut Butter Cups? Dang - they are the BEST! And the low-phosphorus diet says "no" to both peanuts and chocolate.
So I was VERY relieved when the dialysis team laughingly admitted that every child shows crappy results on their phosporus levels on the first Wednesday of November. They told Babygirl that she could have some chocolate but that she would need to take extra phosphate binders (the prenatal vitamin-sized ones!). She was very happy, and I mean VERY happy to do that tonight.
The look on her face while she fully appreciated a peanut butter cup was worth a fortune.
DeeDee
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