UPDATE 10/30/03: Well, never have gotten the tests back but have had a miracle happen in our house in the past week. Benjamin had been having lots of trouble and we knew that another ER visit was in our future soon. His speech therapist came in Friday and Ben wasnt very interested in her due to the pain. She finished up her session and left but we heard a knock just a few minutes after she left and it was his speech therapist again. She said she had been thinking about what her mom had done for her while she was growing up in Brazil. Her mom keep her brother on carrot juice for years and gave it to her when she got sick. She asked if we had ever tried carrot juice and I told her “Noâ€. So, I pulled out the juicer I have had for 11 years (finally putting it to good use now!) and juiced some carrots. Gave it to Ben and he was still screaming, and running thru the pain. He was still doing it when I went to get Bob to help me with him. He said he would be in the house in a few minutes. In the mean time Ben began to settle down and by the time Bob got in the house Ben was sitting in my lap wanting me to play with him. Bob just looked at me and said “I thought you said he was having troubleâ€. I told him he was until about 5 minutes ago. Ben was fine for about an hour and I gave him some more fresh juiced carrots. Within 15-20 he settled back down and was wanting me to play with him. I called Bob in and we talked about this, “was it a fluke or for realâ€. After about 2 hours he started having trouble again so I gave him some more fresh carrot juice and he settled right down after 20 mins. We knew we were on to something then. We loaded up everybody in the house and headed to town to clean the grocery store out of fresh organic carrots.
By Monday we had taken him off all supplements and vitamins. He slept all night long for the 1st time in a long time that night and has slept all night long every night since then. I am giving him 4-5 8oz cups of fresh juiced carrot juice a day and 80% of everything he eats is live/fresh (veg and fruits). Another wonderful side effect is he is no longer on herbal stimulants or laxatives, he is having regular bowel movements, dont laugh!, that is the first time since he got sick 2 years ago!!!
I hope this idea works for some other parents out there, because it has been a miracle in our house, and one gladly welcomed. As the Father of medicine, Hippocrates, said, “Let thy food be thy medicine and thy medicine be thy foodâ€. We have become believers in that.
