My second child was 4 months old, in the ER examination room, struggling to breathe. My husband was in denial when they decided to admit her. "I think they are short patients and drumming up business. She doesn't need to be admitted," he told me. I was so very sad. I couldn't believe we were doing this again. My firstborn's short life had been filled with hospital stays, lots of prescriptions, and many allergies.
At four months old my daughter's entire body was covered in bumps (eczema) and a few places were constantly scabbing over and bloody. She refluxed constantly and was a very unhappy baby. She had several loose bowel movements a day that poured out of her diaper and burned her bottom. She had open sores on her bottom too. I changed her sheets numerous times a day due to the diaper leaks. Now she was being hospitalized with asthma.
We already had a medical baseline allowance with our electric company because of the constant use of the nebulizer for my son (up to 7 times a day for both Pulmicort and Albuterol). The doctor said it was a lifetime condition when she signed the baseline allowance form and checked the lifetime (no need to be renewed) box. The medicines and mainstream medical approaches did nothing to help my son get better. We just spent a lot of time with the nebulizer and he suffered the side affects from the medicines. I had always listened to and followed the advice of my mainstream doctors so I had felt hopeless that their solution wasn't working.
Recently, however, I had been able to stop all my son's asthma meds by putting him on a diet free from his food intolerances and by giving him supplements to support his immune system. A specialist had done blood tests to tell me what foods to eliminate and what supplements to give based on his allergy panel and blood work showing vitamin and mineral deficiencies. I had also been starting to research how to make our home environment and food as non toxic as possible. Finally something was helping my son get stronger and healthier!
When they released my daughter from the hospital the next afternoon, with several prescriptions and a nebulizer, I knew what I was going to do. I promised myself I would use the nebulizer IF she started wheezing again but would first try and prevent wheezing with the same protocol I had used for my son. And she hasn't needed a nebulizer since that hospital stay at 4 months! No meds. No wheezing!
This blog will discuss the many things we are committed to, as a family, to be as healthy as we can be! Healing comes from God and I believe with all my heart He is the reason for the healing I've seen in my children's lives. That being said, He has used some interesting methods to bring that healing about:) I am committed to praying and asking God to guide us each day. You may be surprised when you read where that has taken us.
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