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Luke's Health Journey - The Beginning

I just knew something was off. It wasn't like there was an obvious something wrong. It was the little things.
- He cried a lot more and emotionally unstable
- His poops weren't normal
- His stomach hurt a lot
- He whined and wasn't happy
- He quit eating most meals
- He was becoming less coordinated and struggled with balance
- He couldn't stand being wet or dirty
- He drooled a TON
- He didn't seem to be the same boy he once was
- His speech wasn't clear it was getting worse


I first focused on his stool. It seemed odd to me that he had never had a solid stool. But, the tests came back that he didn't have a parasite and that he didn't seem to have an infection.
I then looked into milk and gluten allergies. After cutting them out for almost 2 months, I didn't see any difference. It didn't seem to be a food allergy. During this time I kept having this feeling that it was urgent.
I then decided to go have his hearing and vision checked. Maybe he wasn't hearing the words or maybe he wasn't seeing my lips move. Lip tie? We had it all checked and all was normal.
I didn't want to keep just guessing at what could be going wrong. I could see Luke getting worse as time went on.
It was then that a friend of mine suggested I talk with a homeopathic doctor because she would look at the situation from a whole body type thing. I was willing to talk with her but I didn't expect her to be able to put all the pieces together and give me a game plan.
She asked a lot of great questions and gave me a lot of time to process with her what all I was seeing, which I really appreciated! I felt heard.
She had a lot of information for me to look into and read but her biggest suggestion was to buy the book, "Gut and Psychology Syndrome" -Natasha Campbell-McBride. I did, and I read through the book in 3 days. It was fascinating to me. So many things made more sense to me, it really did feel like it connected the puzzle pieces of Luke and it really convinced me. We needed to go on the GAPS diet.


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