This day found us reviewing our Lyme symptoms and taking seriously the thought that mold might have made Mid-kid worse. I have known from the beginning that mold can be part of this toxic soup of Lyme (Bartonella shuts down the immune system and perhaps if affects the part that controls molds as well...?)
There is no doubt that we have been exposed to mold and all kinds of other things. The doctor has asked me to make a list of places we have lived and the possible "things" we have been exposed to. That will be an interesting list.
We dealt with mold in my parents apartment. And we are pretty sure that my father-in-law's house has some kind of mold or toxic problem. Hubby the past three times that he has spent any time there has had some serious nose bleeds and then they stop after he leaves. (Doctors think mold do something to stop the clotting factor in the blood.) I must tell you that the possibility of adding another layer or factor to the already existing complications in our family is not a pleasant thought for me. Light at the end of the tunnel for the oldest is good but it is not good enough. We are after complete healing for the entire family.
The reality that mid-kid was getting better and now is regressing is causing me to search not just the nooks and crannies of our lives for mold, but to grapple with the reality that I don't have to search. This past fall the crop dust suspended in the air for days. I have never seen it as bad as it was this past year. Corn is LOADED with molds and that dust just hung in the air for days on end.
Looking back, I am thinking that is about the time I began to see the ever so slight change in increased energy levels and the beginning of her mental malaise. The low grade meningitis that has come and not really gone totally away since Christmas day...and the blank look in her eyes when she is not engaged with life are new and seem to be the what we are facing in 2015, or at least at the beginning of it.
Both daughters have elevated mold levels in their blood work. Mid-kid on a scale of 1-10,000 sits just under 7000, --normal high is just 3000.
Peeling the layers off of an onion and then searching for ways to make life better for my family so that they can get well and stay well is my continued focus in 2015. Please pray for us as we come to mind. None of this is without considerable expense, patience, and emotional strength.