I feel like I am starting to sound repetitive in my posts, so I thought this would be a good time to open it up and see if anyone has any specific requests for topics? Perhaps questions, or just thought-provoking statements? I feel like I’m starting to sound like a broken record so let’s see if we can change it up a bit! Ask away please!!!! Save me from my own repetitive thoughts!
Frustration
April 21, 2011 by 3 Comments
Today I took Nathan to a pediatric allergist. I want to get to the bottom of why Nathan is getting sick so often. I’ve had a couple of people that have worked with Nathan point out that they’ve seen a decline in his well being, development, and health. Around this time last year he was starting to move in the pony gait trainer, starting to learn to use his device, improving his head and trunk control. He continued to do so well until October, where he started declining and getting sick every couple of weeks. Fast forward to today and it’s heart breaking but he can barely move his walker, lost every ounce of head control that he had, and is more floppy than even the day he was born. Something is happening to Nathan, but I can’t seem to pinpoint what it is.
So the allergist said everything in Nathan’s labwork looks perfectly fine. He believes that the reason for all of Nathan’s problems is “secretion management”. What an idiot. Sometimes I wonder how these people got medical degrees. Don’t get me wrong – he was a very nice guy, very smart. But his medicine is SO outdated. It’s so frustrating not to know who the “gems” are and to have to waste so much time in finding the right people!
My next two steps are the neurosurgeon and the neurologist. Maybe they’ll have some answers. If anybody has some thoughts of somebody that can help us out – please do let me know!
As for the recent illness – he is so much better today. I am working really closely with his homeopath and we adjusted his homeopathic remedy until he started showing marked improvements. He went from coughing every few minutes and wheezing, to not coughing at all or wheezing by tonight. I was very impressed with this new remedy that we are giving him and our ability to increase the dosage to create an immediate shift in his immune system. It’s pretty exciting!
I also took him to the chiropractor today, and also noticed a shift in his state of mind after the adjustment. The chiropractor said that adjustments affects the central nervous system and can take people from parasympathetic into sympathetic, which I totally saw in Nathan. At least all of the alternative healers we are working with are AMAZING.
If only I could find Western doctors who could help me figure out the more complicated stuff.
Because I can
April 20, 2011 by 1 Comment
Why 3 posts in one day, you may be wondering? Because it’s my blog and I can 😉
We came home from watching RIO a little bit ago. It was soooo cute! Nathan loved it! Belle danced through most of the movie…and climbed up and down the stairs of the theater..and ate lots of handfuls of popcorn….and Nathan laughed and laughed.
Nathan is doing much better…I spoke to the homeopath who gave me a treatment to use to see if we can help Nathan before the illness progresses…I also took him to the acupuncturist and it was MAGICAL…he went in there coughing every 30 seconds…but after he put the needles in, he didn’t cough for several hours! I figured I’d be thorough and also took him to the pediatrician…so I waited…and waited…and waited…an hour and a half I waited, until I finally said ENOUGH and walked out. I can’t stand it when doctors do that…especially after I’ve asked them a billion times to please just let me know if the doctor is running behind so we don’t have to sit around catching germs. I’m going to have to have a talk with the doctor about this because it’s ridiculous to keep an immune compromised kid sitting around a doctor’s office for hours. Hopefully between the homeopath and the acupuncturist we will have this one covered.
My gut tells me HBOT will help him regain some of the muscle tone that he lost and to boost his immune system. So if I can’t pull off Colombia, off to Irvine we go to the California Integrative Hyperbaric Center. Of all the therapies out there, my gut tells me HBOT is what he needs right now.
And now the house is quiet and everyone snores, it’s time to join them 🙂