Back to School for Rinnie!

Tuesday was Rinnie’s first day back to school. She made it the entire day! Woooo Whoooo! She was very nervous about going back to school, about being different, about not being able to do the things she used to be able to do, about not being able to sit, and having to be on the floor on a mat. For several days before school started, she was in a tizzy. She worried and fretted and then worried some more. And worked herself into a place where she was hurting more and having some numbness and Theodore was swollen pretty badly. (She took 3 doses of pain medicine on Monday before school started on Tuesday! She has not had 3 doses of pain medicine since she started the treatment in Atlanta, so that was a big big change.) So Wednesday morning I called and took Rinnie in for a treatment that afternoon. I have to say that the treatment was nothing short of miraculous! Her pain decreased, the numbness decreased and Theodore went back to the size he was before the fretting began. How cool is that?!

We stayed over in Atlanta Wednesday night because I really did not want to drive down there in the morning and back home in the afternoon. So Rinnie missed school on Wednesday and Thursday. Then today was a day of rest for us both. Rinnie will return to school on Monday, and this time she is looking forward to it. I spoke with her teachers today and she has all of her missed assignments to do this weekend.

Her fears were not grounded…after all, fear stands for False Evidence Appearing Real! She actually had a good day at school on Tuesday, but was stuck and nothing we did could get her out of her stuck-ness. She visited with friends. They joined her on the floor fro lunch, they all swarmed around her for hugs when she got to the classroom in the morning. Thankfully, Dr Turner could and did help her to get un-stuck.

Currently her appetite is good, she is eating and drinking and comfortable. I bought a bunch of fruit today at Amazing Savings and have made her several concoctions of fresh fruit juice tonight. Her body is rejecting the junk food, but she is still not allowing healthy food past her lips. This means she is hungry! So we are juicing until her body figures out the new paradigm. (She is craving a visit to Ryan’s Steak House for mashed potatoes, macaroni and cheese and their rolls, or curly fries at Arby’s….neither are things that she has had for a long time, and then only rarely when nothing else was available.) In an attempt to get her body to an alkaline state, we are avoiding milk products, sugar, cheese, bread and fried foods. Cheese and bread were all she would ever eat before this summer. In other words, this is a very major shift for her. I know that she will come out the other side of this a healthier person than she has ever been.

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Staying in gratitude,

Pam

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