A Personal Victory

On Friday, January 8, 2010, my daughter Brynn had an annual check-up with her pediatric allergist/asthma specialist. While there, her doctor changed her "severe" asthma status to "minor" and told me he really saw no hint of asthma in her at all anymore. He took her off all asthma meds. No more nebulizer treatments. No more pulmicort. She only has an emergency inhaler, just in case. During the course of the visit, he asked what (if anything) we had changed over the last year. I told him we had taken dairy out of her diet, as well as many of the "convenient" foods that are so full of preservatives & artificial ingredients; that we don't eat out as much as we used to; and that we added supplements in the form of a multi-vitamin, probiotics, and omegas. He smiled and said his advice would be to keep doing those things.

Now she is still severly allergic to peanuts - that may never change, and we still have so much room for improvement in some of our eating habits (like the fact that we're all still sugar addicts!!) That being said, I knew she had been healthier with the few changes we've managed to stick to. Still, I had no idea how powerful one's diet can be and I certainly didn't expect the tremendous report we received at the doctor's office. (I think he was a bit surprised, too!)

So, yes, though the judges have frowned at my rice milk and rolled their eyes at my insistence on supplements every morning, I will continue on this journey because I feel it is very GOD LED. And believe me when I say that I could FEEL Him smiling down on us in that doctor's office Friday, nodding His head and saying right along with the doctor, "Keep doing those things."