Showing posts with label Autoimmune disease susceptible. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Autoimmune disease susceptible. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 1, 2013



One of the reasons I didn’t write this summer is because I was not feeling well and was very tired- so tired I think I could have slept 24/7 and still not gotten enough sleep…that’s right I am pregnant! We are very excited…hoping for a girl but will be happy with whichever comes along. We find out later this month which it is. I can’t wait! :-) 

My youngest had his well-check and he told our pediatrician that he was going to be a big brother. Well then the vaccination issue reared it’s ugly head. See I had put off all the boosters for the kids for a few years now. After researching I just wasn’t sure if I wanted my kids to put all those chemicals in their bodies, knowing how one of my children react to chemicals! So I have only gotten 2 in the last 3 years. One for the oldest so he could go to high school. The other I let the doc fear-force me into getting. It was for the youngest and was just the whooping cough portion of the booster. So at this visit the doc basically said I had to vaccinate (especially with a new baby on the way) or get out—not his exact words but that was the indication behind them. He gave me a book to read about non-vaccinated injuries and sent me on my way. Well I read the book. Funny how most of it didn’t even come close to applying- Such as the woman who has problems because of polio…but she caught it before there was a vaccination- when it was still spreading in the USA. Polio is has been considered eradicated since the 1980s. Or the story about the family who delayed their vaccinations and then went overseas. Or, my favorite, (sarcasm intended) the flu vaccination ones. Yeah like I want to shoot my kids full of mercury so they have a 3/million chance of not getting a flu that in very rare cases causes more than just a mild flu. The flu vaccine is made the year before it is needed. They don’t know which strain is going to be floating around-- they guess! So I go home and start researching again. The stuff I am finding out is ugly! Nasty! The things they put in the vaccines! {Shuddering here} And on top of that there have been some recent studies on how certain chemicals that are in the vaccines effect the brain. I just cannot see how any parent, after reading, researching, and investigating like I have can then say yes I want my kid to have them. Even if you don’t believe the studies of injuries and only see the list of ingredients…that alone would make me not agree to it. 

As I was reading and watching videos about the way it can affect the brain they went into the different injuries or issues you could have that have been linked to the vaccines. I have believed for many months now that that whooping cough vaccine that I let the doc talk me into caused my youngest to suddenly develop asthma. He had never had any signs of it before, has no family history of it, and then a couple months after the vaccine he suddenly has it? Well in the research one of the things linked to vaccines is asthma. Imagine that! It also listed language development as an area of the brain that is damaged. Well when the youngest was much younger he was talking –not necessarily sentences but words. All the sudden he couldn’t talk at all. We had to take him to a specialist who taught him sign language and then worked on verbal skills. She diagnosed him with apraxia.  Basically he couldn’t out the sounds together. At the time I didn’t think anything of it but after watching that video and reading some reports I think it was caused by the vaccine booster he had received. He had been saying full words and some words together and then he goes to not being able to say any words?? Don’t tell me that doesn’t sound suspicious! And on top of that they cause autoimmune related issues and food allergies...guess who had autoimmune issues AND food allergies??? My middle son!

So anyways I am on the lookout for a new doc that will let me make decisions on which or any vaccines to give my kids…know of any good ones?

Thursday, November 3, 2011

More Medical Issues...

So yesterday was our yearly check-ups for the younger boys, J & N. I purposely had the appointments back-to-back so I could get it over with. :-)


N is now on the growth chart! LOL Last year he wasn’t even on it. Yea! He is having a urine re-test to be cautious but otherwise his checkup was great.

On to J…so on top of his ADHD, Kindney-reflex, Asthma, IgA Deficiency, Autoimmune disease susceptible, Washed blood only transfusions, Aspergers, Raw Carrot Allergy, Gluten-free self he now has Scoliosis!! Seriously. Can you believe it?!?! I am so P.O.ed that I don’t know what to think, do, or say!! Seriously! This child already has so much to deal with and now this. I completely thought to myself “Are you joking??!! Couldn’t it be one of the other boys? Why him?” I know that is mean to wish it onto another one of my children but he has sooooo much to deal with already!! How is this fair to him? I am soooo MAD!! This was/is me:


So last night I read up on yet another medical issue for my poor middle son… Scoliosis. The experts don’t know why it happens. There are 2 different kinds- C or S curve.


J has an S curve.










There is about a 20% chance that it won’t get worse. If it does get worse (typically happens as a child goes through puberty) then he can wear a brace that will prevent his spine from continuing to curve. Once he is finished growing, if his spine is curved to a certain degree (from what I have been told it is like using a protractor for measuring math angles), then he will have surgery to fuse his spine. If untreated it could cause organ issues…like crushing them. If you “google” scoliosis you will see some pictures that are not that nice to look at.


In the end I am sure I will have to look forward to many years in a brace and then another surgery! On top of everything we already are dealing with!! I am sorry to be a pessimist here but they told me that his kidney reflex had a 90% (or some such high percentage) to naturally reverse itself by the time he was 5…he had surgery when he was 6 1/2 yrs old. So you can see the reason for my bitterness and lack of hope here. In this moment I just cannot look at this as the “glass is half full”. This is just too much on top of everything else.


Even though I am disheartened by the diagnosis I have decided to be pro-active. From the articles I read it seems that people who do certain stretches, see a chiropractor, and/or do karate (I guess because they do a lot of stretching?) tend to not curve as bad. So we visited a chiropractor today- someone we have known for years. He said he has dealt with many children who have scoliosis. Most of the kids he has worked on have not had to have surgery. The stretches/chiropractic visits seem to help. J will see him once a week for the next month and then once a month until he hits puberty. We are also going to start doing back stretches every day. As for the karate- if we had the money I would really consider it but as it is we just can’t afford it. The main issue at the moment is getting him to not do flips, somersaults, bridges, etc. Evidently these are no-nos for people with scoliosis…unfortunately he is determined to work on his flip throw-in for soccer. (See here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqIJSzOf7bM)


I am convinced that somehow all his issues are connected, even though supposedly scoliosis is not an autoimmune disease (at least as far as they know). How could one little boy have all these issues and they not be connected??