Sunday, September 3rd, 2017
If you don't quite understand how medical illnesses and underlying nutritional deficiencies cause anxiety in a child, I could explain. If you want to understand how OCD, terrifying fears, insomnia, clothing sensory, and emotional outbursts can be caused by a stealthy underlying infection, just ask. My daughter has busted through two more milestones in the last 24 hours that she's been struggling with for 4 years. She has broken through.
If you don't quite understand how medical illnesses and underlying nutritional deficiencies cause anxiety in a child, I could explain. If you want to understand how OCD, terrifying fears, insomnia, clothing sensory, and emotional outbursts can be caused by a stealthy underlying infection, just ask. My daughter has busted through two more milestones in the last 24 hours that she's been struggling with for 4 years. She has broken through.
FOUR YEARS of illness. Four years of pain. Four years of asking, why. Four years of pediatricians who couldn't help. Four years of people giving me well-intended but infuriating parenting advice. Four years of research, learning, fighting, tests, $$$, heart-breaking setback after heartbreaking setback. Four years, each one building upon the other, to give us the knowledge we needed to figure this out. Four years of kinship with other warrior moms, trying to heal their kids of all kinds of illness; pandas, pans, Lyme, ADHD, odd, asd, Tourette's, anorexia, and of course, spd. Moms who refuse to settle for, "this is just the way it is".
And just as I knew four years ago, deep in my bones and in my soul, that something wasn't right, I know now that something is. This is not the fragile, teetering, temporary improvement we've seen so many times before. I can feel it in my bones and my soul is whispering to me....we're on to something and she is healing. 💕
To every friend, old and new, who has been there with me, thank you. Thank you for listening to me drone on about the dangers of chemicals, toxins, and vaccines for our kids. My winding explanations of methylation and detoxification. Cell mimicry, auto-antibodies, glutamate, and inflammation. To the moms who have been on this path much longer than I, who shared their knowledge and set me right, (you know who you are), a special thank you from the bottom of my heart. I know there will be issues to contend with, and future illnesses can set us back, so this is not the end of her story; but is the beginning of another chapter.
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