End of summer check in.. #49

The summer has been great to us. We have spent a lot of time swimming and doing yard work in our yard. After starting chiropractic care for Isaac things did 180 degree turn. For the better. He now has normal bowel habits. He is completely off the senna and we are seeing his surgeon every 3 months instead of multiple times a month or monthly. We made it over that hump! I believe whole heartedly chiropractic care was the missing piece to our puzzle. Another great doctor to add to our team.

In February we are going to Disneyland!! 15 of us. My side of the family has planned a big family vacation and we couldn't be more excited. This will be our first big family vacation. Planning for that has already started. It is leaving me so excited but so anxious because February in the past has been a bad month for us. Just with all the viruses going around. We spent a few days in the hospital last February with a stomach virus. Really hoping we can be 100% healthy so we can enjoy our vacation. But we will probably have to talk to our surgeon about worst case scenario options for when we are in California. It's really hard being a parent with a special medical needs child sometimes because you always have to plan and think worse case scenario. Which means I will need to get hospital names and drs there. In case we have an issue arise. It has limited us as far as going on vacations because I guess we have always been worried about the what if. Which is not good. I really hope we can stay healthy and go enjoy this vacation :)

I just wanted to give a brief update and let everyone know we are doing well!! I hope to write again soon.. Before Isaac's 3rd birthday. Yep, he will be THREE.. 3.. THREE in 2 short months. Where has the time gone?!? I can't believe my baby will be 3.

CHIROPRACTIC care for Hirschsprung's!!.. #48

Please forgive me! I have been so sidetracked the last couple days, err weeks, that I have not had time to even update. I have been vaguely talking about how we started Isaac on chiropractic care and I have been getting floods of messages and emails about it. I think it's important, especially with special needs medical kiddos, to seek out ANY alternative (dont know why it is called alternative medicine because this is our choice in medicine) therapies you can. With that said, each child is not the same so results will vary. Hirschsprung's is a very tricky disease and there are so many ups and downs. Trials and errors.

So we saw our GI dr back in March that suggested we try some alternative therapies with Isaac. Chiropractic care was one he had mentioned. I had thought about chiro care in the past but with everything going on I just never got around to taking Isaac in. Boy do I wish I would of done so sooner.

In my previous posts lately I had been talking about bringing Isaac to a nutritional practitioner, trying senna on and off, a lot of ups and down. We have been battling getting him regular for almost 7 months. Since October. It has been really stressful. So I figured, you know what, why not. Why not try chiro and see what happens. 

Fast forward to about 5 weeks of chiropractic care. We saw Isaac's surgeon on May 8th and for the first time in 6 months she was shocked. Shocked that he was completely clear. Empty. No stool at all. She even joked she could feel his kidney he was so clear. This was the first time in at least 12 visits she had said even something remotely close to this. About a week prior to that appt we had taken Isaac off his prescribed senna dose because it was causing a bunch of adverse reactions for him. Lots of gas, stomach pains, diarrhea. At this point I felt like it was just too much for him. So telling his surgeon what had been going on we felt at this time he should be taken off the senna. His bowel was now functioning normally. I believe the chiropractic care was the missing piece to this puzzle for my son. Chiropractic care is not just about back or neck pain, it's about allowing your body to function and heal properly through these adjustments. This essentially allowed his bowel to "wake up."

I am very much a science based person. So there is not question in my mind that this is not a coincidence. We finally found a combination of things that are working for our son that does not include medications or some type of medical intervention.

We take Isaac to an awesome, well known, chiropractor here in the Tacoma area. Dr. Mike Long at Renaissance Chiropractic Center. Dr. Mike is so amazing with kids. This is by far Isaac's favorite dr to visit.

I know a lot of parents question alternative care because they just don't know much about it or they are afraid they can't afford it. Chiropractic care for children is so inexpensive. So inexpensive. And so so beneficial! Isaac has been doing very well with it and only goes about once every 2 weeks.

It has been such a huge relief to not have to give him senna everyday. Or do rectal irrigations. Or some type of medical intervention just to get him to poop. It made me cringe every time I had to give senna to him. Not knowing if it would upset his stomach and cause him pain. Things really did a 180 degree turn in such a short amount of time for him. I hope it continues to look up.

Here are some pictures from one of his appointments with Dr. Mike!! And for more information about Renaissance Chiropractic Center here is their link to their website..

www.chirotacoma.com