Hey mamas,
It's been so long since I've been in this section. I hope you and your kiddos are doing well. As for me and my kiddos, things are not good. I've posted about my older son who has weight issues and a hard time fighting off colds, but he's run the gammut of tests and aside from needing vit D supplementation and an insane amount of calories each day, they couldn't really find anything wrong with him.
So now it's the younger son's turn. Up until October, he had been a little on the heavy side and always had a good immune system. He was always the one that could fight stuff off even when his brother and I were sick. This past Fall and into the winter that changed, overnight. He has been fighting off one infection after another after another after another. He's lost 16 pounds since October and has averaged at least 2-3 infections of various bodily systems each month. They did some initial bloodwork and he needs vitamin D supplementation as well but everything else was normal. CBC, sed rates, thryoid....all normal.
I am seriously at my wits end. I'm trying hard not to cry as I type this because he's in the same room with me, but honestly, I'm scared and I'm desperate. My son is not well, by any stretch of the imagination . His asthma is horrible, he is so freaking skinny, and his appetite is dead and buried. Most days I have to beg him to eat even five bites of whatever I think I can get down him every hour or so. He just has no desire to eat or drink anything. I'm sure the asthma and medications and constant infections don't help this any either. To make matters worse I took a new teaching position this year and if I don't get fired by the end of this year because of all the sick time I've had to take (and that's a gigantic if), I have no doubt that I will not be offered a position for the coming school year. I'm at the point where I almost don't care if I have a job, at least I would be able to stay home with my son and take care of him. And then I remember the part where I'm a single parent and if I don't work we don't get to eat and keep a roof over our head.
Anyway, I guess I typed this partly as a means of just "getting it out" and also to see if any of you have been down this road with your own little ones. Was there any particular test, supplement, food, etc...that you thought was necessary or helpful? Given that this has happened to both my boys now, and they have different dads, I have to wonder if I am the genetic link to some sort of disorder or something that is causing my kids to be so skinny and so sick all the time??? Does anyone have any suggestions for me?
Thanks for reading,
Wytchy
for the OP. Could you possibly look into running a metabolic analysis on their hair? It is relatively inexpensive and it was remarkably accurate for me. Maybe you'll find an answer there?
