Back home at last!

We are happy to say that Justin was able to be discharged from hospital on Saturday and come back home. Yesterday it was back to life almost as usual and Justin returned to work today.

I say "almost" as usual because we have had one major change around here - it wasn't just for his stay at the hospital, Justin is now on a lactose-free diet. Although finding lactose-free milk was easy and finding almond milk and rice milk (both of which are lactose-free) were easy, it is not a fun task to go through our cabinets and figure out what Justin is allowed to eat. For instance - did you know that Saltine crackers are made with milk? So many of the things that Justin typically eats are no longer allowed - his morning cereal, the granola bars he takes in his lunch, etc. We are going to have to start paying very close attention to ingredient labels before buying food now.

This will also make our evening meals a challenge. Did you know that we love cheese? Not that we had cheese incorporated into every meal, but we do like our cheese. I read somewhere online that most hard cheeses are already lactose free, however that doesn't really agree with the info we were given by Justin's doctor. We have already found a couple websites that have lactose-free recipes and last night I made some vegan peanut butter cookies that were pretty good. Here's to trying new things!