Last month I decided to go on a 3 week ‘elemental diet’ between Thanksgiving and Christmas. An elemental diet is a liquid diet which doesn’t need digesting because it’s broken down into amino acids, simple sugars (it contains a little oil also). For reasons that aren’t entirely understood a few weeks of an elemental diet often helps reduce Crohn’s symptoms (although the symptoms may return [more]
My Crohn’s symptoms have been somewhat better since about March, which I’m very pleased about. I’ve been on Methotrexate 25mg and Humira 40mg weekly injections for about a year now. I started exercising regularly again around February. That has definitely made me feel better in various ways and perhaps has helped specifically with the Crohn’s as well. I was hoping my annual colonoscopy in July [more]
Recently Esther has been crocheting Amigurumi animals – this is her penguin: If you have a facebook account you can see more of them here – Esther’s Amigurumi facebook album
Ben and Esther played in a violin recital on Saturday. Esther played the 3rd movement of the Korngold Violin Concerto and Ben played the 1st movement of the Tchaikowsky Violin Concerto. They will also be auditioning for their high school concerto competition finals next week with these pieces. Here are the videos (click below to play) Download Korngold Download Tchaikowsky
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