Slow Day

Before I started this post, I read my friend Andrea's post - you can find a link to her blog in the upper right hand corner of this page. I have had so many comparative thoughts about medical versus holistic and in this instance, dealing with this multi-symptom illness, an approach that truly seeks to right the body at its core level is the only one that truly makes long term sense to me. This is probably the reason that Andrea and I along with scores of other parents have ended up where we are. It's simple, we all saw scores of physicians with no real answers, we all took medications with little results and we all tried holistic when we had no other options left and it has worked...for all of us. It feels better to know that you are working for true healing and real control of the bacteria instead of treating the symptoms alone. This illness buries deep in the cellular level and takes careful time and attention to eradicate.

Coleman was really tired today. It was one of his most low key days yet, just a slower start for him. There are days when he has to get his body moving and limbered up. He did make it out to the trampoline twice, which makes him exhausted and very happy. He's in good spirits tonight enjoying a movie.

Today is Jeff's birthday so we had steaks on the grill waiting for him when he came home from work. Spencer cut a Spanish fruit salad, he loves to hang with me at the stove every now and then. He loves to stand in a kitchen chair and make pancakes.

Signing off from the den for tonight. It's truly amazing to realize that you love someone not because of what they were or what you thought they were going to be, but just because they are, just because they exist and just because they are yours, because they are a gift from God no matter how life changes them. I will always be sad by the fact that such an amazingly debilitating illness struck such an amazingly innocent boy(s), but I will always be confident that there is a reason for the path we are on and footprints on that path because someone has walked this way before us.