Day 71 Fish Oil Study

We got back to Jax late this afternoon and I dropped everyone off at the hotel and came over to Selah.  I missed seeing her since Saturday!  She has a great nurse tonight and she had had her bath and looked great.  We put her splints on and totally ticked her off but thank God she didn't storm!  Once we got them off, and the nurse moved her around some, she went to sleep.  I'm just sitting here watching her sleep.  She has done fine with the Ritalin, no adverse reaction.  I'm not sure if the doctor will go up on it, I think we'll find out tomorrow.

I thought you all might find interesting the email I got today from Dr Sear's assistant.  In it he writes about the need for safe pure fish oil. 

Good evening Everyone,

You may have heard me say Omega Rx 2 is a remarkable product. It can help athletes perform significantly better, improve moods, reduce pain as well as provide many other health benefits - and most of you have confirmed this by taking it yourself. One thing I may have not talked about to you about is the purity of Omega Rx 2. Purity matters because the ocean is full of toxins and so are the fish. If you don't eliminate these toxins, in particular PCB's, during manufacturing, they end up in your body! Of course, every company will tell you what level of toxins in in their capsules, right? Don't bet on it!

THE FISH OIL STANDARD - OMEGA RX2

In 2002, Dr. Sears wrote the Omega Rx Zone (I highly recommend you read this). This book describes the amazing clinical benefits of omega 3 fatty acids, which pioneered and launched the fish oil/omega 3 industry. Prior to this, there was no availability of any high concentration, low toxicity omega 3 supplements. At this point, Dr. Sears also initiated lab testing for fish oils to hold manufacturers and production companies accountable for the purity of their products - particularly PCB's and OXIDATION. In fact, some are considered unsuitable for human consumption based on World Health Organization standards! As you can imagine, not many companies were willing to do this because they would fail miserably - and chances are, if you have taken fish oil (other than Omega Rx) over the years, it's not so pure!

Fast forward a decade and the same sad situation for omeg-3 fatty supplements is still true. Since there is no real accountability for quality, rancidity and freshness at the highest levels, marketing companies can make any statement they want with regard to purity. It is really a BUYER BEWARE market! Luckily, Dr. Sears has stepped up the quality control to maximize purity. There is no fish oil product in the world, with or without a prescription, that meets the same purity standards as Omega Rx2!

WHAT ARE PCB'S?

Polychlorinated biphenols are insulators for electronic transformers made by General Electric. They were first produced in 1930, peaked production in 1960 and finally banned in 1977 due to their toxic nature. However, they are still in every part of every ocean in the world since they are virtually indestrucible. In the body they act as neurotoxins, carcinogens, endocrine disruptors. Probably not something you want in high quantities in your body. Unfortunately, these PCB's are found in every fish and therefore fish oil sold today. We have set the purity standards to bring them to trace levels, but you might want to be weary of other brands that don't!

CALIFORNIA STANDARD FOR PCB'S - PROP 65

In 2002, California set an allowable upper limit for fish oil to contain PCB's. Despite this new law, a number of COMPANIES still sell tainted fish oil and were finally held accountable. However, they did not make them remove their product from the shelves. Actually, the level they set for acceptability is still very high at 90 parts per billion and yet they couldn't meet these standards! I think as close to zero would be a much more acceptable level!

Coincidently, when you purchase OMEGA RX 2 from Zone Health, you will always have extremely low, if not undetectable, levels of PCB's. To validate this claim, you can download an analysis of this batch of Omega Rx 2. CLICK HERE and then click on "Ingredients Q & A". Here you will see reality and truth of fish oil purity. If you want to define quality, this is it!

*I have attached a copy of the analysis for your viewing pleasure!

5 DIRTY SECRETS OF THE FISH OIL INDUSTRY - A MUST READ!!!

In this article, you will read about the dark secrets of the fish oil industry and what they won't tell you! In addition, there are additional links that confirm the quality of Omega Rx 2 with third party lab testing. Honestly, this info completely separates every other fish oil in the world. There is no purer, period!

WHY NOT EAT FISH

Fish may sound like a good idea but it still comes from the ocean and is laced with toxins. As many of you know, it is not recommended that pregnant women consume more than 2 servings per week. This is a powerful statement and gives you an idea about the junk in our fish supply!

CONCLUSIVE RATIO!

To not balance your omega 3 and omega 6 fatty acid intake, is like playing Russian Roulette with your health. Unfortunately, omega 6 fatty acids are everywhere in the food you eat and drive inflammation - which contributes to chronic disease, pain, moods, poor athletic performance, etc. Fish is one of the main sources of omega 3 fatty acids but you would need to consume 7 pounds of lobster, or two pounds of tuna, or 6 oz. of salmon a day to equal 2.5 grams of EPA & DHA ; the minimum recommended by Dr. Sears. Considering that omega 3's are essential to human health, means you need to consume a quality supplement, free of toxins!

My next email will be why we need omega 3 fatty acids and how the dietary balance of omega 6 to omega 3 ratio can determine your risk of heart disease as well as other potential chronic diseases. Have a great week and here's to your health!

   

Paul Wilk

Zone Health Associate

949.212.1123

www.zonehealth.com

 

 

If you are interested you can click on the top right side of my blog above the videos and there is a link to Dr Sear's website. 

 

 

I enjoy his emails and always learn from them!

 

 

Let me tell you the funniest thing today....I was CRAVING coffee and a doughnut.  I'm not a big coffee drinker nor do I really like sweets too much...but I was CRAVING it!  So I passed a Dunking Doughnuts on my way to the hospital and had to turn around.  When I was in the turn lane I realized the DD was right next to a porn shop!  LOL  so the traffic is horrible and all I could think of was it looked like I was heading into the porn shop....me in the Mommy van with all the kiddo stickers on back!!!  I was dying by the time I got into the Dunking Doughnut's parking lot and wasn't sure if I really wanted coffee from a place next to a porn shop!

 

Day 70 Fish OIl study

We decided to stay overnight at home so we have been working on projects this afternoon.  Most have annoyed me!  I went to two different pharmacies to get Selah's meds ( to have them once she is home ) and just got the total runaround....So still don't have them in place.  I have a million little crappy "projects:" that only I can do like fax insurance/prescription cards...etc....so annoying.  I feel like I"m getting NOTHING done!  I need to make a list and just go down it.  That is the only thing that works for me.

Selah has done fine, no more elevated heart rates.  No issues...it's just hard for me to be away from her.  I feel torn in a million directions, being so far from home, there are so many things that need to be taken care of here when I am home!  Probably tomorrow they will up her dose on Ritalin and see how she does.  We hope to be up and rolling early!  We will be up...rolling is a bit hard with all the kids!

Had a good service today.  Our music minister sang a grouping of some of the old "Sunday night revival songs"  One was a childhood favorite "Getting Ready to Leave this World"  and there were a few more ALL I knew but now can't remember them LOL  I have no brains or memory left...that is why I make lists!  Every Sunday I say I"m not going to church so I can get things done before we leave since we're just home Saturday night and Sunday morning but every week I go....and am glad to go....

PLEASE keep praying for Selah, pray this med will work on her.  Pray the Fish OIl will continue to work on her but more than anything pray that God will have mercy and touch our daughter and heal her. 

Day 69 Fish OIl Study

This morning we went to see Selah.  We took her outside for some sun and we fed the ducks in the outdoor pond.  Sam threw in a whole piece of bread and the ducks loved him. Selah seems to enjoy being outside.  We are so looking forward to her being home where we can take her outside daily. 

She was started on the Ritalin at 8 am today.  The doctor will start her slowly and see how she does.  She did get upset this afternoon after her splints had been on her arms for 1.5 hours.  The nurse removed them and held her for a few minutes and she calmed down.  We don't think that was caused by the Ritalin but it will be watched closely.  Please pray that she will respond to this medication.

We drove home and went to see Jon's dad.  It was his 85th bday!  What a wonderful father in law he has been to me all these years!  My mother in law was the greatest also and we miss her.  She was killed in a car accident only a few months after Jon & I got married.  I often think how different life would be if she had not had the accident.....  You never know what tomorrow holds, love your family and hold them close while you can. 

So we finally got home  late tonight and found ALL our "left over" things ~ things we couldn't get packed int our car waiting for us!  Thank you RMH for mailing all that to us, it was like a little Christmas:)  We weren't sure what was in there LOL!

Well I had some great photos but my blog is not being cooperative...maybe tomorrow!

Thanks for all your prayers!!!!

Day 68 Fish OIl Study ( and book review)

Today Jon took the day shift and spent the day with Selah.  He was able to take her outside and she seemed very content.  We have been reading and discussing various meds that have shown some improvements in some patients.  We have decided to try her on Ritalin.  It works on a child like Selah differently tha it does on a child that has ADD.  In a child like Selah it has shown to help make them more alert.   The other med we tried a few weeks ago didn't work at all but this works differently on the brain so maybe it will help her. 

Jon came and picked us up and we went to this great place called Town Center...oh my....lots of places to eat and stores.  I got a manicure/pedicure....and just like the Russian lady who cut my hair that day before Christmas when I was so down....the lady who did my mani/pedi was a Vietnamese Christian.  She wrote our names down in her bible to pray for Selah.  She kept telling me "not to worry I will pray now every day"  While my nails were drying ( my REAL nails btw!  Nothing like a bit of MRSA to keep my hands out of my mouth LOLOLOL)  she came around and gave me a massage and I could hear her praying under her breath....it took all the self control I had not to just bawl my eyes out....  I love God's people!

Jon found the best book at Barnes & Noble!   http://www.amazon.com/The-Grace-Effect-Corruption-Unbelief/dp/1595554408    The Grace effect by Larry Alex Taunton

IF you have ever adopted or plan to adopt from Ukraine this is such a great book!  You will find yourself standing in the hallway of the SDA....it talks about the corruption and the "gifts" or bribes...(yes for the record we did knowingly give a "gift"  LOL  at that point we were at, it was a NO brainer!!  And we would do it again in a heartbeat!)  So many of the descriptions just brought back so many many memories.  I LOVE Ukraine despite all of its problems.  I didn't feel like that about China.  But Ukraine got in my heart!

This writer Larry Alex Taunton is a apologist and he regularly debates the "new atheists" like Christopher Hitchens (before his death)   So this book also is about the GRACE of God in an orphan's life and shows how ONLY Christianity reaches out to the world to change it!  What a GREAT book!!!!    I was fightig tears throughout is as I sat in Selah's room tonight reading it....

So since Jon did the day I stayed with her late tonight.  She was unusually alert for the time and she watched her DVD of Baby Praise intently!  I felt like she wanted to be held and she did:)  I sat her up and pulled her into my lap and she just got so calm.  Later I had her torso supported by my knees and she totally held her head up for quite a while!  She would need some assistance at times but did better than I have seen her do since we have been in Florida!  After I put her to bed, I went and found the nurse, I actually thought maybe they had already started the Ritalin and she was responding!  But it doesn't start till tomorrow morning.  I was just thrilled with her alertness and how she would look me in the eye.  One thing that really bothered me is her arms were so tight tonight.  They were drawn up to her sides and bent in.  I did alot of ROM (range of Motion) and ticked her off good!  She has 100% ROM but she just goes back to that position.  Jon said she was not tight when he was there and that the therapists remarked on how loose she was.  Tone is a funny thing!

Please pray that Ritalin will  help Selah......we will not quit praying or trying to find medical help for her ever!  Sometimes it is trial and error.  But we will try things that have sciectific data supporting some positive changes in patients like Selah.  I'm not a big drug fan but at this point, we will try things and see how she reacts!  There are a few more drugs to try that have brought help to some children.  But we hope this one will help her!

Another chance to give!

http://www.followingwheregodleadsus.blogspot.com/

I just gave to this little guy's family and it was a pain to redo all the paypal stuff but I'm so glad I did! they need $12,000 to finish thier adoption of this little guy from Russia. they've past court and are thankful that their adoption will proceed! Can I encourage you all give?  My blog has about 4000 hits a day...if all my readers would take the time to go and give just $3, their need would be met!!! 

 

I chose to give because of all the love that has been shown to our family, I wanted to pass it on!!!   Giving to this family would be a "good thing" to get this little guy home and to the medical help he will need soon to save his life! 

 

I posted his info back awhile ago and then it was unclear if the family would be allowed to finish their adoption, but thank God they will be!!!

Just click on their link and look on the right side of their blog and you can see the "chip in" section where you can give!!!

 

God bless you!!!

My Real Life

“The great thing is, if one can, to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions in one's "own" or "real" life. The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one's life.” ~C. S. Lewis

When I saw this quote, I couldn't help but think of my life......and the title of my blog.  Back four years ago when I started my blog, I really had an issue coming up with a name for it.  I asked my brother in law, Jim because he is really good with words and he came up with some funny names like "Yvonne's Yarns" .  But this title came to me, because I live a real life....well  I didn't know how real my life was going to get! 

We are tempted to think "when I do this" or "when I finish this"  my life will really be perfect.  But it never is "perfect"  it's just life.  I'm a tidy person (OCD person) so I always feel like life is perfect if my house/yard is clean, closets straighten, garden done, kids clean and in perfectly ironed and matching clothes with fresh hair cuts.....so with all these kids, that rarely happens....  Living out of a Ronald McDonald House, or a hotel room, with a child in the hospital,  and kids wearing whatever happens to be clean, and me going over two months on a manicure, and a husband who needed a hair cut two weeks ago would not be my idea of "life" it would be more my idea of an "interruption"of my life!  But guess what?  THIS is my life like it or not!

And where/what ever you find yourself in, is your life, like it or not!  Personally I'd prefer things to be different in my life but I don't want another life....  So we all have to make the best of where we are....  You only get one life. Don't waste your life by wishing it away.   Do the best with the life you have.

I love hearing stories of folks who took the "talents in their hands" , their lives and did great things for God.  Even when there did not seem much "in their hands"  I recently read in the book "Reckless Faith"  of families who had nothing yet would take kids in their homes to raise them.  I read of an older retired man who started a church in the worst area of a Mexican town,they used the talents in his hands, worked within their circumstances to do great things for God.  That is what I want to do! 

I have dreams in my heart that may never be fulfilled now....but that doesn't mean I'm just going to "lay down and die"   I may never get the chance to work overseas, run an orphanage, but I'm going to serve God where I am at by serving my family and being open to whatever God brings across my path. 

So I encourage you, use what is in your hands for God.  It may not seem like much, but God can take your faithfulness and make it a story that will encourage others ......

Day 67 Fish Oil Study

Selah has had a good day today.  She was alert in therapy, no storming now for a week.  She is resting good tonight.

So long day dealing with insurances.....We were denied coverage by Blue Cross for her to stay here past Friday morning.  Yesterday we appealed but today we found we were denied the appeal.  At the same time we have been appealing to Medicaid, her secondary insurance for nursing care ( BC does not do full time nursing)   Today we found out that Medicaid will cover her stay her until the nursing issue is resolved.  I filled out an in depth schedule for Jon and myself today to show our need for 24/7 nursing.  It made me tired LOL.  It looks like we have an agency to work with us.  We have worked with some really nice folks, even the ones at Blue Cross that turned us down:)  The Pasco Co Medicaid office has really worked hard on our case and are very sympathetic towards our complex situation.  Usually I'm a mess trying to work out things like this (not that I have ever had a situation like this before thank God!)  but I've had a peace even though everyone around me has been quite negative towards our need of 24/7 nursing, telling me how it won't happen.  Our case is unusual to say the least with two other handicapped kids but because of our situation we are finding the help we need.  Nothing is for sure at this point but I've believed from the beginning that God knows what I can and can't do and what I already do with Sam and Sarah who are both severely handicapped.  Some people say I make it look easy, and to be honest with the three little ones before the accident, it was easy for me.  It was like having two toddlers and a baby.  Well now that has changed alot.  I believe God will provide what I need to be able to take care of all my children.  I've had nothing but positive input today from the various offices that will have to decide the hours of nursing we will get.  Our situation won't change over time because my little ones will always be "forever toddlers/babies"  So unless Selah is healed, our nursing situation should stay the same.

We have made the decision to home school Shad and Steve for the rest of this school year.  Steve will probably have to work through the summer also.  We haven't had books since before Christmas but hopefully we will pick them up this weekend.  We had been going back and to on this decision but we feel this new journey is too new and fragile for me to try and take the kids to school and Jon has to get back to work and will have no leave time to be able to transport them.  It has worked so far this year and will work out for us. 

During my hours on "hold" today I did find some studies on comas and bringing people out of them.  I brought some of the info in and talked to her doctor about trying a few other drugs..  So we are going to look at trying a new one.  There have been a few cases where there has been improvement, we will see.....  I believe in medicine and believe that God gives doctors wisdom and caring hearts to want to ease human suffering.  Just like we were blessed to find out about Dr Aquevella and his life long work on artificial corneas and now have a little boy that has some sight compared to being blind!  I keep praying and hoping we will find another "Dr Aquevella" who has tried something new that works on brain injuries. 

So a busy but productive day....thank you for your prayers and please continue to pray that everything will work out in our favor for Selah's nursing.  Pray for Selah, pray that she will be healed!  And we won't even need nursing!  I'd be thrilled!!