Day 29 Fish OIl Study

Selah's cold/pheumonia/viral thingy is  much better thank God.  She did great in therapy today and is only having some labored breathing at times.  She keeps her oxygen levels up but it seems she has to work on breathing.  She did everything her therapist wanted her to do today and did it good.  Her doctor asked if she could share Selah's story and the fish oil study with a group of PH.Ds from Cornell University tomorrow!  We are so excited for others to hear about how Fish Oil is helping our daughter to recover from a coma.

I do want to explain to you that Selah is taking a very high pharmaceutical brand of fish oil.  It is not something you can just buy off the shelf.  She is also taking 4 oz a day of it!  Soon I will have a link on my blog to Dr Barry Sear's website.  You can buy the fish oil (and some in pills thank God ~cuz that is some strong stuff) along with other products he endorses.  Dr Sears works with different sports groups and has done several studies of the benefits of fish oil for various issues.  He has also done some books on diets/how to live healthy.  At some point, it became clear that fish oil could help brain injuries.  There are several studies supporting that fact but more studies will probably be made in order to get a wider group. 

I will tell you a funny story.....when my friend from college emailed me the article that was on CNN, I called Selah's nurse that night.  She told me that sometimes the hospital allowed families to give their children vitamins that didn't come through the hospital and maybe they'd allow us to give that to her.....  Well that was all Jon & I needed!  The next morning, he dropped me off at the hospital and went straight to CVS and bought TWO HUGE bottles of fish oil!  We were ready to start popping them and putting them in her g-tube!  The morning nurse thought we had lost our minds LOLOLOL! 
Thankfully someone soon contacted me from Dr Sears' office and let me know the difference between fish oil you might buy in the store and pharmaceutical fish oil that is very refined.  We still have those bottles.....  We laugh about it now but we were DESPERATE~~~

Well it looks like next Tuesday Dec 11th will be our day to leave here!  It also happens to be Jon's 49th birthday!  If we really go on that date, we will be one day shy of her being in the hospital for 17 weeks!  It will be 112 days!  Then who knows how long she will be in rehab!

So keep praying for our Selah!  I stand in awe of all that God has done!  Some may say "you guys just gave her some medicine...it wasn't God"   But I can tell you first and foremost ALL good gifts come down from above and that include the fish that God created!!!!  She was starting to improve on her own but now that process has just sped up!  We are grateful, first to God, then to a doctor who discovered this and brought it to the world's attention and to our doctor and hospital here that was willing to try it!  And to my college friend David who emailed this to me in the first place!!!!  We have grateful hearts and a little girl who is waking up and doing things no one thought she would ever do again!