Our oil lady suggested not doing any oils today and letting the ones we'd been using soak into his system. She said to try diffusing peppermint. It didn't help. I also noticed some darkening above his lip under his nose. I have no idea what this would be from. It doesn't feel like dry skin.
Around noon we left for our appointment at Northern Nutrition in Shipshewana, Indiana. Thomas wanted to go first. We all had a combined family appointment. First the doctor had Thomas put a finger in a little clip on machine on his finger. It measured pulse and the strength of his heart beat. The naturopath looked at me and asked if his doctors had mentioned his heart beat. I said "no, why?". He said its very unsteady and weak. It was supposed to make the lights go up to 5 and then down and then back up to 5 and so on but it would only go to like 2 and then down and then 4 and down etc... He suggested 100 mg of CoQ10 two times a day for that. Then he did the finger poke on Thomas and put a drop of blood on a slide. He put the slide under the microscope and then projected it through a computer monitor for all of us to see. It was neat to see all the cells. There was a little worm shaped parasite; which he said was bacteria borellia that affects the nervous system. His white cells looked good. It was suggested that he take a supplement called mono-immune plus citracital (grape fruit seed extract) and Samisato. He was also mineral anemic so we bought a mineral drink for that. The Samisato and Citacital are to be used for 10 weeks and the others until our follow-up appointment on September 2nd.
I want to be hopeful. I want to believe that this will "fix" him. I want it to work. But I am so doubtful. We've been let down too many times to believe in anything without physical proof. We've spent a lot of money on this round of supplements so I guess only time will tell. I'm tired. Joe's tired. Our other children are tired. It's hard, it's emotionally exhausting to watch your child/sibling suffer.
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