I'm through chapter 5. Don't know if I made it any better, but maybe Sergei has changed a little. Maybe that will be better. It's hard for me to make any judgments at this point; I've spent too much time with the book.

The dairy-free diet may be paying its divdends already. Child X can actually breathe today, through his nose, which hasn't happened in a long time.

In other news -- sibling rivalry. And snow that is not sticking.