Houmous?

Just to illustrate the problems with the steroid, I thought I would tell you about yesterday.

As part of Catherine's steroid treatment, she often gets cravings for different foods. Yesterday, one of her little friends had some houmous (a creamy dip made with chick peas that she eats at nursery). It was like she became totally obsessed with the idea of eating some. She kept asking me over and over again for some houmous and then decided she would ask her friend. She went over to her friend and repeated over and over again 'Can I have some houmous?'. Her friend just looked really puzzled and kept on playing. When her friend had enough of being asked for houmous, she started to walk away. Catherine followed her and kept repeating that she 'would like some houmous, please?', as if her friend was a ready supply. I was starting to think I would need to make an emergency trip to Sainburys and then one of our friends kindly offered to give Catherine their pot of houmous from their fridge. The relief on her face was obvious. Catherine was delighted and sat on the sofa eating half a pot of houmous and some carrot.

We are looking forward to the end of the steroids.