Josie's Journey

We got the results from Wanda, the Naturopath I mentioned two posts ago. Just to refresh, Wanda did a saliva DNA test to find out what's going on inside that little body. She found....drumroll please... diphtheria and graphites and a deficiency of iron and nitrogen. Let's start with Diphtheria. The DTaP vaccine that babies get at 2 months, 4 months, and 6 months stands for: D - Diphtheria, T - Tetanus, and P - Pertussis. To be clear, Josie doesn't have the actual illness, but a significant amount of the Diphtheria toxin was found in her body. I'm just wondering how a baby gets the very bacteria that she was vaccinated three times to prevent? I'm trying to wrap my brain around this one. I'm doing research on the disease and the controversy around this specific vaccine. I won't bring my findings here as my focus and energy now is just to rid Josie of the toxin. And that's Phase One of Wanda's regimen. Wanda also found graphites aka lead. I asked wh...

We took another road trip this week - to Steelers Country. As if I care about football. I don't, but that's a shout out to Uncle Peter. So we went to see Dr. Christine Roman-Lantzy, who is one of the few experts in Cortical Vision Impairment (CVI). She actually wrote the book . I made this appointment in September so needless to say, I was very excited to finally meet her. Josie was diagnosed with CVI at around 9 months. It's actually amazing to me that the first opthamalogist we went to did tell me it's her brain and not her "vision" (the structure of her eyes are fine), but she never told me about CVI. The second opthamologist handed me a one-pager with the definition of CVI, but never discussed the importance of tackling it immediately with CVI-specific vision therapy. The next two eye doctors had nothing CVI-specific to tell me either. The fact is that a child with CVI has a great chance of overcoming most of the challenges if they engage in the corre...