I see you, eggs.

Reincorporation started on Wednesday. Like last time, I reincorporated eggs first. Reincorporation is different this time because instead of eating one serving of whatever's coming back in at a time and checking for a reaction, I am to stuff my face with that food for two days and really try to elicit a reaction. I’m basically playing chicken with my immune system, which isn't in itself great, but it's better than just stuffing my face with all of these foods all the time and constantly having a reaction without realizing that's what's happening.

It’s harder than last time because I’m not sure I can stuff my face with anything at this point, but here I go. (Literally. I eat about half of what I used to in a single sitting. A single, normal-sized apple? Totally satisfying. I love apples the size of my head, but I can't eat that much food anymore in one sitting. WHAT IS HAPPENING TO ME.) I also have to log my reactions - according to my doctor, if anything changes in how I feel, I have to track it. If my symptoms increase, I am to cut it out until I stop having a reaction (which can take up to a week) and then stuff my face with another currently banned food, and the foods that I have a reaction to stay on the banned list permanently.

My body's reaction when I started to reincorporate eggs:

I felt like total shit the entire two days that I was reincorporating, and the candibactin protocol was even less tolerable than it already is. I had a reaction the first day, and I was all, "NOPE. I AM FORGING AHEAD FOR THE FULL TWO DAYS." It was difficult. It appears that my relationship with eggs is no more, friends. It'll take me a couple of days to recover, then I'm going to try mushrooms.

Womp womp.

Moreover, I found out that I have very mild celiac. BUT NOT (entirely) BECAUSE OF GLUTEN. Because of gliadin, which is basically found in everything that has gluten. I was like one number under the Holy Line of Demarcation for gluten, though, so it’s on the banned list. Also, I can't effing eat oatmeal anymore because of this - not even the gluten-free kind, because all oats have gliadin in them, even the ones that are gluten-free. WHAT THE ACTUAL HECK.

Also, I had a full neuropsychological battery on Wednesday. It was four hours long and pretty freaking exhausting.

Wednesday was a pretty intense day, y’all!

What came out of it is BIG executive functioning trubs. This makes a lot of sense in my personal life, but the question I can’t seem to get out of my mind is this: why isn’t it an issue at work? I can plan, I notice a lot, I’m not as rigid at all because I can't be rigid and do my job at the same time - it's not possible. I mean, I struggle if things are really noisy around me or if I get interrupted constantly, but who doesn’t? On paper at work, I have FANTASTIC executive functioning. But when I leave, my car is littered with Tupperware that I don’t bring in, my house is a mess and I can’t seem to keep on top of, and my schoolwork is a struggle because of that. All signs point to it.

I get the full feedback in mid-June. Until then, I wait.

In better news, I stopped taking my allergy meds because I wasn't noticing a difference anymore. Still no difference. So, my allergies are going away and that's fantastic, because the last time I went through something like this, my allergies nearly knocked me over and left me bedridden every single day and there was nothing I could do about it. It's also my most difficult season right now, and still nothing. I'm pretty freaking stoked about it.