How our appointment with the holistic practitioner went

A note---I started writing this up yesterday so sorry for the time references being off.

I am very excited to tell you all about our appointment that we had yesterday. We were there for two hours so do forgive me if this is not in order, nor if it all makes sense :-) There was a LOT to take in yesterday, things that we will be trying to 'digest' for a while I am sure. I was very pleased with her ideas on health in general. Sometimes I know deep down what I think on a matter, but it's not until I hear or read someone elses thoughts that I can finally have words for it. Her reasoning of why allopathic care does not work is because it is based on evolution. The idea is we climbed out of the primordial soup and developed some lungs, then thousands of years later we developed something else, like a gall bladder. Then thousands of years later we developed kidneys.....we are all very much aware of this THEORY. However that leads physicians to think that no harm will come to you if you are sick and they need to take your gall bladder out, or your kidney, or any other body part. After all, they are separate entities, just housed in one package. But we didn't climb out of soup, we were wonderfully and fearfully created WHOLE by a loving God. You can not start taking pieces of you out without having ill affect. This concept can be found even with pharmaceuticals. You take one med for your heart, but that effects your blood pressure, so you need to take another med, but that one also effects your blood sugar and so on. Anyways I liked what she had to say on the matter. I also liked the fact that she also assessed his emotional health. She was saying that our being is made up not only of physical matter, but also emotional, spiritual and mental. You can not expect a complete healing if you don't address all parts of your being. So on to the actual testing.



The practitioner had these drawers of vials. She used kinesiolgy to test Jedidiah. The most simplistic explanation I can give is that all things in the universe have a measurable frequency. Each type of germ, or matter, or whatever has a frequency. She is able to tell with touch whether Jedidiah was deficient or weak in certain areas based on the contents of the vials. Just to give you some amazing things she found that have been documented or we knew of but she did not.....She was able to tell us that Jed is VERY low on iron. A blood test that his GI doctor did recently already told us this. She also told me that he very recently inhaled a toxic substance. I had just sprayed bug spray the day before in a room that we were all in throughout the day. This bug spray is toxic, it wasn't person friendly :-( And the last is something we could get confirmation on, but I don't think we need to. She asked us if he had been waking up at night. I told her he had been the past few nights. Then she asked if we noticed him messing with his ears. Again, he had been doing this very recently. I thought it was just another Jed "thing" that he started. She then told us that he had an ear infection. She was also able to tell us that it was caused by one of the flu viruses. Well not three weeks ago Jed was VERY sick. We don't have confirmation that it was the flu, but the likely hood is high. So the fact should could tell us these things was pretty amazing.



This is, to the best of my knowledge, what she believes happened with Jedidiah. We ran overtime with our appointment and we were not able to ask all the questions we wanted (she said I could email her with any questions) so there are some holes that need to be filled in. She was running her hand over a bunch of vials and said she already knew what the root cause of all this was. I really hate to tell exactly what as it's pretty gross, so I will just say there are some "buggies" that can interfere with a woman's hormones, which would explain Jedidiah's extremely small placenta. The small and unhealthy placenta is the start of poor nutrition and perhaps lack of oxygen that Jedidiah experienced inutero. She then asked us if Jed's heart had been tested. I didn't remember it being tested, although Jeremiah said they hooked Jed up to an EKG at Duke. I'm not sure how I forgot that, but it is possible. She said that there was something wrong with his heart. She thought that it may just be very weak. That was probably the result of his poor nutrition. However, the body has a safety mechanism. It will not let the body outgrow the strength of the heart. Therefore Jed will not grow until his heart is able to handle the extra burden. If we get his heart healthy then his body can grow as it should. There is definitely stuff wrong with his central nervous system. His speech issue showed up in her testing. But the cns stuff came in at the end and I did not get to ask her specific questions yet on it. It is interesting that the next day Jed's speech therapist came for her visit and told me that she scored his Apraxia evaluation and he does indeed have Apraxia.......hmmmmm, pretty interesting. Jed is also experiencing a LOT of stress. So much so that she wants him on a supplement (ok, a lot of supplements) for his adrenals. The "lots" of supplements are addressing a wide range of issues like his low iron, brain health, and digestive enzymes and good bacteria, etc. She said that his adrenals were really working overtime and that his body will not be able to heal until his stress level comes down. Jed of course gets "freaked out" by lots of things, thus putting him in a constant state of stress. The adrenals release chemicals that will inhibit his body from healing properly. She kept asking me if I had chicken pox while pregnant with Jed. I told her I had a very, very mild case as a child and to my knowledge didn't have a recurrence during his pregnancy. So I really need to ask her why she asked me about that. At the end she assessed his emotional health. She asked about sibling rivalry at home. Jed used to ignore the baby, which always had me wondering. All of our girls had some reactions, but Jed didn't seem to. He may have been holding it in. Recently though Jed has been constantly pushing Jonah. He will run up to him if he is about to grab a toy and take it. Now a lot of this is typical behavior, but he does it CONSTANTLY. So apparently it shows. Jedidiah also has issues with digestion---REALLY?? I'm joking about the 'really??' part :-) Although what we thought all along was reflux is due to his cns, he does have issues with digestion. Again I will have to ask for more details as I am curious at the big picture of his digestive system.

Phew! I know there was a bunch more smaller things that I can't even remember right now. We started giving him his new remedies that she gave us. If any of you thought homeopathy was weird, you would have really freaked when you saw her making up his remedies! Ha, ha. She took ALL the vials that Jed tested "positive" to and put them on this small machine. Then she put a bottle of water on the other side of the machine. She pushed a button and that made all the frequencies transfer over from the vials to the bottle of water. Yeah, I told you it was crazy. Here is the even crazier part. She said to give him four doses a day. She said that people with cns issues tend to be too sensitive to the remedy and they need do decrease it to 3 or 2 times a day. If at 2 times a day he was still too sensitive then we were to put the dose on his foot. That is what we have to do with Jed's homeopathy by the way. Well the very first day was crazy. Jed was all over the place, being very loud, screaming, couldn't sit still to save his life and couldn't focus for more than three seconds. I am not kidding! Even his speech therapist asked me, "What is WRONG with him?!?" It was that bad! Today, which is day two of the new remedies, has proven better. The past day and a half his teeth grinding made a huge return and was about to drive us all mad. But this afternoon he had stopped. So hopefully we will be on the up and up now. She said that we should start seeing results in one week. Baby steps though.....getting a bit better here, and little better there, each week. The good news is that his homeopathy has paved the way for him to be in better health. We added the glyconutrients back into his diet and in two weeks he has gained ONE FULL pound!! That is amazing! He looks so good right now, pale, but good :-) I'll have to get a picture up of him tomorrow. I'm on the back computer and we don't have our pics on this one.

OK, sorry if that was too much, but I wanted to get most of it recorded before I forget. I already have a long list of questions for the holistic practitioner that I want to get out to her by tomorrow. Off to bed. Tomorrow is Saturday and we have a bunch of work to do around here.

Oops I forgot to mention that he indeed did test postitive for mercury! So his homeopathic doctor wasn't off! It may indeed be playing a role in all of this, again how so, I have no clue. Lots and lots of questions running through my head......good night all!