Typical days heading to a chelation weekend
Nothing too much has been going over here in my household. Just my usual ins and outs with Jordan. A typical day for me is spending a few minutes trying to wake him. Before he used to just jump up with no problem. Yelling up the stairs 2 or 3 times for him to get dressed because after we brush his teeth he gets back in the bed and lays down. It starts off as a game I think; him kind of hiding from me while I get his clothes together. I tell him to start getting dressed before I leave the room but once I'm gone he just lays back down. After he's downstairs he's pretty much easy going, takes his B12 with ease, eats and watches YouTube videos until the bus comes. After he gets home, he changes clothes right away, goes to the den for more computer time and after a while comes to sit with me to pull my hair out or ask to get on my back. He may go downstairs to ride his bike a little bit. Then comes crunch time. I then have to give him his Vitamin D or Flora, I like to switch it up every now and then. After a while its time for dinner, and before that I have to give him his Speak Smooth and an enzyme with food; enzymes go with every meal; then his Detox Aid after eating. Then I just work in whatever else I can. His Threelac, another dosage of Flora, two teaspoons two different times of his vitamins and minerals, two teaspoons of cod liver oil, again at two different times and then green juice; if it's a weekend and he doesn't have chelation. With all that said Jordan is doing very well. I do see a bit of regression because of the increased dosage of the DMSA but nothing to bad.
The regression that I see is him having to pat/touch something or someone before he gets up or leaves the room, however, he is saying "I want..." so nonchalantly. For example I bought him and his sister some Skittles one day and he ate his bag all up. Saw her bag and went for them. So I told her to put them away or he will devour them and he followed the bag saying "I want siccles" over and over again. And anything that he wants he will come out and say I want...whatever it is. At a family members house he enjoyed being outside and when everyone came in he said "I want soutside", and when he had enough soda in my eyes and I told him no more, he kept saying "I want soda". Now I know he can use the words correctly, but most of the time I have to teach him the sentence. The fact that he can use it in the right context whenever he wants is great, and he is starting to want more and more things. Makes me happy.
He also had a visit with his PCP last week. I have received the paperwork for him to get his labs done to check his Vitamin D levels and red blood cells. Those are the things I have concerns with, but she gave me 4 different referrals for Jordan as well. One for Jordan to see the eye doctor, one for the hearing specialist and one for the developmental department all at Children's Hospital. She also wants him to go back to the allergist to see if any of his allergies have gone away or if any new ones have popped up. All of this sounds good, well except for the glasses, but I just dislike taking Jordan to all these specialist. I know Jordan can hear, but even typically developing people get hearing tests so maybe I can work with that. I would love to see if his allergies to peanut, shellfish and eggs have gone away because of his treatments with the DAN doctor. Even though I know more than likely they haven't because I don't think his immune system is where it should be yet. And the development department sounds good too, however, there is the fact that your child isn't developing normal thrown in your face, kind of like the IEP's that tell you your child is on the level of a 18 month old in a area when he should be at 8. I haven't heard that since he was in his special needs school but you get the point. But I'm not sure what the development department does so I will have to let you know that after the visit.
