Spring busyness

June 9, 2016

I haven't "journaled" an update in 2 months- Wow- spring sure can be a busy time!  Spring lacrosse season has come to an end and summer activities and camps have begun.  Overall Thomas had a wonderful time with his lacrosse team.  He played hard and well and setbacks seemed to be minimal over the course of the season.  On May 28th he turned 10 and celebrated with a birthday luncheon with his grandparents followed by a party with four of his friends complete with a water gun war.  After his friends went home he climbed into my lap, cried from exhaustion and fell sound asleep in my arms.

  I tried to enjoy the snuggling but there was also a nagging inside my that said while we've come miles from last summer we've still got miles to go on this journey.  He seemed to recover after his nap and played in the tent with his sister.

I have started noticing that he complains more frequently of leg pain something that had gotten better and wasn't a big issue even during running with lacrosse.  He also has had several headaches of late. The other thing I've noticing is that he has been crawling into bed with me in the morning for extra snuggles in the morning.  I love to snuggle him but knowing that if he was feeling good he'd be up running around makes the snuggles harder to enjoy.  Today he came into snuggle and drifted back to sleep a bit.  After his smoothie for breakfast he laid down on the biomat and said his head was really hurting.  Then he asked to take a shower.  He then confirmed what I was wondering and that was he was feeling dizzy.  The dizziness that I thought we were so done with, the dizziness that last year made it so he didn't walk on his own for days, oh how I loathe the word!  After his shower he laid back down on the mat and fell asleep.  He stayed asleep even while the reading specialist was working with Chris and Mackenzie basically in the same room.

After his nap he said he felt a bit better.  He wanted to go outside so we did for a little bit.  He moved around slowly but did shoot a few basketballs into the hoop with me rebounding most of his balls.  The best Joe and I can come up with for now is to increase his water intake and reduce anything with added sugars.  While he consumes around a 85% organic diet daily and the rest being whole foods but perhaps not organic; we have started letting some organic packaged snacks like granola bars which have organic sugars.  Sugars feed Lyme and cause inflammation so it's always been best for him to have very limited amounts.  We had just opted to try going 3 weeks between treatments with the acupuncturist or normally he would go today.  I haven't been able to connect with the doctor and I think he was at a conference today but as of now his next appointment is next Thursday.  It could be that he is going through a growth spurt too and that is causing some overload on his system.  Time will tell.  I am thankful that he is better than he was this morning and is moving around more and not complaining of the pain. 

I am clinging to Psalm 56:3 When I am afraid, I will trust in you.