Struggles

In beginning this journey of traveling down a different path to determine what is best for my son, I knew that there would be struggles and difficulty. While I am most certain that we have made the right decision in the form of natural medicine and seeking a further path and answers down that road, it is still a struggle. We still have two more weeks until we get the blood test back and the waiting is killing me because I don't know if there is something that I am giving him that is hurting him. For example, I made a loaf of banana bread the other night and kept out the egg yolk because we are positive his is allergic to just the yolk of eggs, but after eating it that night he started coughing and wheezing. This time I was able to correlate that to something he consumed and gave him benadryl and one breathing treatment and he was fine...no hospital.

The biggest struggle is his behavior in the last week. I know that his body is trying to assess what is going on and adapt to vitamins and supplements and learn how to cope without the medicine. I also think that the withdrawal of soy is playing a large part in this. I wouldn't say that he is horrible, but he is not listening, being mean to McKenna, throwing tantrums, whining, crying at everything...and so on. Our time out spot has seen more action this week than it ever has. This is definitely not him, but it is getting better everyday as his body continues to "relearn", and it has become safe to go out in public again...

We will get there and I have absolute certainty that the answers will come, I will just be relieved when they do...