Heavy Metals Revisited

Liberty's repeat urine metals challenge came back very high for lead. About three and a half times the norm. I am waiting to hear from the doctor's office today about how to proceed. My appointment was cancelled when Lib's doctor got sick himself and they could only reschedule it for another month out. In the meantime, I had been calling and leaving messages to find out about all of our labs we had done, including the urine metals challenge. I wanted a repeat because Lib was not anywhere near potty trained when I tried to collect the first one and I knew it was not much of a sample that I managed to get, and probably rather dilute. This time, he was able to sit on the potty for all of the times I collected the urine.

And, I've always known he was full of metals. I've just been waiting, doing all of these other things like dealing with yeast and Vitamin A levels, jumpstarting methylation cycles and sulfization cycles, getting the bowels moving, upping the nutrition from supplements. And, in the meantime, dealing with school placement, all of the IEP's, therapy and theories.

But, always, I've been thinking, pleez already, get the metals out of my boy. I know that Mercury is the main culprit and always has been. I know that the double round of antibiotics right after the MMR pushed my son's little body right over the top. I know it all takes time to restore balance.

(And what of our environment here in Florida - the air quality the worst in the nation, the polluted water, the polluted fish, the Super Fund sites - did that play a role in the whole toxic set up?) Sigh. More theories. More speculation.

It's been exactly one year since we trekked to New York to see the doctor. Two years since I saw a doctor in Arizona who was not a DAN but got my son started on supplementation. One year of methyl-B12 shots. Five months of clearing yeast.

If anybody's ready, it's me. Let's roll.