Say Hello to my Little Friend

You'll do anything for a sick child. 

I know our homeopathy journey may seem like a crazy leap of faith, insanity, or whatever to some, but trust me when I say that we've tried everything and look where it got us. 

Nowhere. 

But really homeopathy isn't as crazy as it might seem. Maybe we've been using its principals a lot more than you'd think. Like cures like. Hmm, sounds a little familiar when we start talking vaccines. 

I promise I won't digress there too much, but think about it. Putting diseased tissue in its most weakened form into our bodies revs up the immune system and gets those antibodies flowing with guns ablazin'. 

That's what homeopathy is. It introduces pathology of some form into the body, whether it is from diseased tissue or nature itself, to pump up the immune system. So hopefully that dials down my crazy enough for you to see the connection there so I can share the latest in our PANS/PANDAS journey. 

I've mentioned before that when P/P kids get sick they don't show normal signs of illness (e.g. fever, runny nose, etc). Their immune systems are not working right, so what do you expect?

Instead, they "flare." That's our term for "the brain's on fire, and the revolution is about to begin!"

Last night my P/P kid started complaining about a stuffy nose. Nothing new there with allergies running amuck. You know...

I could feel the flare begin and readied myself to abandon ship, but there was a touch of something new. I looked at him and saw the face of a sick person. Stuffy nose, tired, glassy eyes... you know, miserable. It took me a minute, but then the AHA! moment kicked in! 

                    (Insert most famous 90s AHA! moment. She totally loved Josh.)

Could it be that the old immune system was working in proper fashion again?! Maybe just a scoche? 

Woo hoo! He's miserable! YASSSS, GIRL! Ok, you know what I mean there. 

I may be overreacting, but if you lived in our world you'd give me the benefit of the doubt. To add to my growing suspicion that homeopathy is helping, I've also seen the "fight-or-flight" dilated pupils MUCH less as well as a Bartonella lesion (that has been around for years) practically disappear. He also just seems to feel better overall. 

Thank God for homeopathy. I'm ready for more. 

Our Journey (So Far) With Homeopathy

We are smack dab in the middle of using homeopathy to heal our PANS/PANDAS son. I haven't penned a blog in awhile, so the quick and dirty of that diagnosis is the "brain on fire," immune system going haywire illness that you don't want to wish on Hitler himself. 

Ok, maybe I'm good with it on that guy. 

I realized this morning that, even though we are in the thick of it, I already have a lot of healing stories to tell, so why wait? I know what you are thinking: I already take all kinds of natural supplements or Yeah, I've already done the essential oils, thank you very much. 

I promise you, it's not that. In fact when I first learned about homeopathy, I was driving out of state to see the fifty millionth doctor for my son and I tuned in to a homeopathy doc telling me I could ditch the supplements and just do homeopathy. It sounded a little like an infomercial.

So I came home (again, utterly disappointed that the latest and greatest doctor couldn't help us) and did just that. I quit shoving a hundred supplements down my son's throat that weren't working anyway and started the journey with homeopathy. I floundered for awhile. I didn't get it. Seriously, this tiny white pillule can help? But let me tell you, after over a decade of trying anything and everything, some serious desperation hits deep. 

Homeopathy is based on the idea that "like cures like." Basically, the same substance that can bring on symptoms in a healthy person can treat illness with those same symptoms in another. It's based on the idea that the body can heal itself. Hey, if it's good enough for the queen? Oh, did I mention they eat this stuff up in Europe? Don't be fooled by the little box that American big pharma has put us in. 

Oops, I didn't see that little soap box coming. My bad. 

So now that you know, I'll actually share a quick story to whet the appetite. This one is about my healthy son so you know you can use it too. I'll get to the more complicated stuff later. 

When my younger boy gets a sore throat, he spends no less than a day or two in bed not uttering a single word or eating or drinking anything. ANYTHING. We communicate through miming for a few days. He throws up and his face blotches. Poor guy. 

The last three times he has started getting his usual symptoms, I put on my homeopathy hat and started dosing remedies. You have to find the right one to match symptoms, but let me tell you... IT WORKED! It's like we were waiting for a bomb to explode that NEVER did. He kind of hovered with very mild symptoms for a few days each time, but we never had to practice the art of miming. And that's just one of the many stories we already have that I would love to share because...

But that's for another day. Just hang on to hope, and let God's handiwork have life again. He created us with an immune system so let's put a little faith back in His good and wonderful gift. 

P.S. Just for clarification, we have had some great doctors along the way and I do love me some essential oils😉