Poisoned At the Dentist's Office-Jacob's Story Part 4

Jacob's unusual neurological symptoms were caused by mercury poisoning.
The 50% mercury in the amalgam fillings sent his body over the edge.
I cried my eyes out when I researched amalgam fillings!
They are 50% MERCURY! A KNOWN NEUROTOXIN!
AN INCH AWAY FROM THE BRAIN!!!!!
Oh, why did I ever let the dentist put that poison into my child's body?
I KNEW better! My guard was down!
ABSOLUTELY NEVER AGAIN!

Some of you may say, "Look at all of us people in the world that have had silver fillings in their mouths for ages and nothing went wrong with us!"
Well, Jacob may be the first person you have ever heard of, but he is my and God's precious, precious child! No child should EVER be subject to poison. Let alone, ON PURPOSE!
Yes, the dentists all know that mercury is poison!
Jacob's medical bills came to over $40,000!
And that doesn't even count the thousands we spent AT THE DENTIST!
WE PAID THE DENTIST TO POISON OUR PRECIOUS CHILD!!!!!!
DOES THAT MAKE SENSE TO YOU??!!

Oh yeah, I WILL lobby for mercury-free dentistry!
I will TELL ANY AND EVERYONE who will listen!
Amalgam fillings are 50% MERCURY!!!
Look into MERCURY!
AND AMALGAM! http://www.iaomt.org/news/archive.asp?view=all

Please, let us do all we can to PROTECT our precious Treasure! ~Our Children!

Wouldn't you know, God led us to help again!
We found Dr. Regiani! A holistic dentist that is the founder of IAOMT (International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology). http://www.regianidental.com/
He replaced Jacob's fillings with a composite that we had tested by Dr. Parker, our chiropractor, to make sure it was compatible with Jacob's physiology.
Eventhough Jacob was doing 95% better by the time we had the fillings replaced, we knew we needed to get that mercury out of his mouth!
We held our breath!
He has not had ONE episode since then!

It's been a year now and Jacob still sees Dr. Parker (chiropractor- http://www.spartanchiro.com/ ) every 2 weeks. He continues to take his supplements 4 times a day. He gets an ionized footbath (at the chiropractor's office) that draws out toxins from his body. He has been doing these footbaths once or twice a month for almost a year now, too.
He is our happy boy again!
It is a MIRACLE right before our eyes!
We are so thankful!!
God provides!

One more thing that has been crucial to Jacob's recovery is that Dr. Parker also applied Neuro Emotional Technique (N.E.T.) to Jacob's visits. Something emotional was blocking the ability of Jacob's body to heal properly eventhough he had come along quite nicely with the supplements and footbaths.

Everything that God led us to do were crucial for Jacob to heal properly.
I told God that I would tell this story so that perhaps one other child may be helped.
So that's the story!
God bless the little children!

Jacob's Story Part 3

Oh, wow! It's been awhile!
Here is part 3 to Jacob's story.

~I continued to pray for help and guidance. We didn't know what to do.
I thought maybe we should bring him to the chiropractor we were seeing many years ago. Dr. Green is a comprehensive chiropractor that deals with applied kinesiology as well as nutritional counseling.
I called his office.
No answer. Just an answering machine.
I called another chiropractor that does similiar treatments.
No answer. Another machine.
Called the following day when they were supposed to be in the office.
No answer, again!
I went to the computer and searched on the internet for chiropractors that used applied kinesiology, knowing that Jacob's situation required something more than just spinal adjustments.
I found one! And the website said they love kids!
I remember feeling as if my heart was beating harder than usual.
I wanted so badly to find something that would help Jacob!
I just knew something was going on inside his body and that somehow he could get help!
I just didn't know exactly how it would happen.

So, here I was, writing down the phone number to Spartan Family Chiropractic http://www.spartanchiro.com/ and secretly hoping we could find an open door.
It happened to be a Friday morning and I didn't want to waste the day searching and not try to at least get a call into somewhere. Anywhere!
I felt desperate!
I called and Darcy answered. I gave her a brief rundown and then I spoke with one of the chiropractors.
A little more thorough rundown this time.
Yes, indeed, Jacob's case was quite unusual.
I was able to get an appointment that very evening!
At 5:30. I was so excited!

Jacob and I arrived and the very first thing Dr. Parker said, was: "I can tell something is going on by the dark circles under his eyes."
I couldn't believe it!
All he did was glance at him and he knew right away that something was wrong!
(Hippocrates wrote about looking first at the body to see what could be wrong with the patient. I learned that from my 20 year old son who wants to be a chiropractor.)
Dr. Parker then gave Jacob a spinal adjustment and asked if he had any dental work done lately.
Wow!
I was just starting to wonder if Jacob's recent fillings had anything to do with his unusual symptoms.
Dr. Parker then muscle tested Jacob for 2-1/2 hours trying to find out what his body was trying so hard to say!
His body was testing very high for mercury and his brain and liver areas tested weak.
Wow! We found this out in a few hours? I was thoroughly amazed!
I believed in it! My gut instinct told me that this all made sense! (Gut instinct really means God's gentle whisper, don't you think?)
I asked Dr. Parker if he thought there was hope for Jacob.
He said, yes, he believes there is hope!
Thank you, God! We seem to be getting somewhere!
That night was the first night in 10 straight days that Jacob did not have an episode!
I believe the spinal adjustment was very helpful as it is directly related to the central nervous system.
Thank you, Dr. Parker!
Thank you, again, God!

This isn't the end. Jacob still had episodes daily.
Dr. Parker gave him natural whole food supplements to help his brain and his liver.
After a few weeks, we thought it seemed Jacob's symptoms might be a teeny, tiny bit milder.
Were we just hoping?
Some people doubted the whole chiropractic route. But, we believed.
There were no side effects to this treatment. His body desperately needed healing.
We continued to hope and believe that he would get better!
Jacob saw Dr. Parker every week, testing and re-testing to make sure his body got the nutrients he needed.
He was slowly improving.

Next, I'll write about 2 very important things that brought Jacob's health to a speedy recovery! But, I won't wait so long this time.

Jacob's Story-Part 2

September 16, 2010
We rushed Jacob to the nearest emergency room, they gave him a CAT SCAN and sent him to the University of Michigan-Mott's Children's Hospital via ambulance while I was saying my prayers that Jacob would be okay!
He was admitted to the Pediatric-Neurology department and given every test you can imagine: MRI/MRA, CTA, EEG, ECHO, EKG. The tests all came back normal.
The doctor that read the MRI saw a shadow on his brain and thought perhaps it could be a clot or tumor. That turned out to be false.
Then they noticed that his right carotid artery was quite curvy and maybe blood had gotten caught up in it and caused a minor stroke. They couldn't tell for sure since the tests came back normal, but for lack of anything else, they concluded that it may have been a cause of his strange symptoms.
They prescribed baby aspirin for possible cardiovascular causes.
His symptoms soon disappeared and he appeared quite normal, except for his gait. He was still walking funny, as if his legs were stiff and couldn't quite remember how to move correctly.
He was discharged on September 18, 2010 with a follow-up appointment in 4-6 weeks.
So, we gave him his baby aspirin every day. We had to cancel a dental appointment because they didn't want to work on his teeth while he was taking the aspirin. Jacob was in the middle of restorative dental work.
We wondered what was really wrong with him. Did he have a mini stroke? Would the aspirin prevent it from happening again?
It didn't.
All his symptoms came back on September 21, 2010. Same thing. Rush to emergency room, ambulance ride to UM. All the tests plus a spinal tap and a psychiatric evaluation. Everything normal.
Jacob was a mystery! I asked the doctors about Lyme disease, multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, allergies. No, they said. None of those.
It could be complicated migraines, they said.
Really? I looked it up on the internet and sure enough, Jacob had many symptoms of an unusual type of migraine. The speech and walking thing but what about the weakness and the wierd throaty sound?
He was sent home with a prescription for a daily migraine medicine and physical therapy to help him regain his normal gait.
What will the medicine do? Fix his brain? Get rid of whatever it is that causes these strange symptoms? We will have to wait and see. And are migraines supposed to happen every single day?
Jacob got worse. He would have an episode every single day. Anywhere from 1 minute to lasting all day. Sometimes his head would hurt. Other times, he would just fall down and lay on the driveway or wherever he would be and appear to be passed out. His legs would give out on him, he started talking like a baby, he would get restless and jump around like an animal. He would be scared and think the "man" on the computer screen was going to "get" him. He would tell his dad that 'he's mean'. He would growl and throw things. He would cry for 15 minutes at a time. He sometimes seemed spacey and would stare at his hands. He would moan and roll around on the floor. He would scream and bang on the car window with his fists and struggle with the seatbelt until I was worried he would choke himself. Everything was so completely out of character for Jacob.
We would put essential oils on his head, rub his back, and take him for car rides to calm and soothe him. Lenny would end up carrying him to bed when these episodes would end and he would be limp like a rag doll and then sleep all night. At times, we wondered if he was still breathing. He seemed so still. I cried myself to sleep many nights!
The medicine seemed to make him even worse. He started hallucinating and acting like he was choking. It scared us! We took him off of it after starting and stopping a few times with the same choking, hallucinating results! Something was going on inside his body and we didn't believe the medicine was going to help him at all! We wondered if our son would ever be normal again!
Now what do we do? Our poor, little Jacob was hurting and no one was able to help him!
We were on our own!
I cried. And prayed. Dear God, show us how to help Jacob. We don't have a clue what to do!

Jacob's Story~Part 1

I need to tell the story about how our 9 year suffered unusual neurological symptoms just 'out of the blue' last September.
On September 1, 2010, my husband, Len, was on the way home from the hospital that I was admitted to due to a little blip in my pregnancy, when he recieved a call from our then 11 year old. It was 1:30 in the morning and Philip was calling to say that Jacob was crying because he had a horrible headache (the teenagers were all sleeping). When Lenny got home, he assessed the situation and decided he needed to bring Jacob to the emergency room. They gave him a CAT scan and an MRI, but couldn't find anything so they figured it was a sinus/ear infection. They gave him medicine and sent him home. We gave him his medicine for a few days and he seemed fine.
Two weeks later, Jacob started acting strange. He came into our bedroom around 9:30 at night and said that he knocked into some furniture and bumped his head and I remember saying to him that maybe we should get his eyes checked. He appeared to be fine~no bumps or anything. He walked out of the room and a few minutes later, one of the younger kids came to our door to say that Jacob was acting funny~breaking pencils and a ruler. I went to investigate. I remember asking him what he was doing and to stop breaking things. I thought maybe he was mad about something. Without saying anything, he started to go downstairs. I followed him. He sat down at the kitchen table and I went into the other room to do something. Lenny had decided to go to the store to get coffee for the morning. I can't remember who it was, but someone came to tell me that Jacob was breathing funny. I rushed into the kitchen and sure enough, Jacob was making this throaty, gurgling sound. It looked like he was about to have a seizure.
"Jacob, are you okay?", I asked.
He didn't say anything, but continued to make that strange sound.
I said, "Jacob, you're scaring me. Can you hear me? Can you breathe?"
He must have shook his head to say 'yes', because I remember feeling a tiny bit relieved.
I brought him into the living room and found that his legs gave out on him. I sat him on the couch. I told him that everything will be okay and that I will take care of him. He was somewhat stiff when I told him to lay down. He couldn't seem to relax his body.
He asked me if he was going to die. I reassured him that he wasn't, but boy, my heart just broke a little.
Then he started babbling, not making any sense at all.
I panicked!
I screamed for someone to call Dad!
"Hurry! Tell him it's an emergency!"
I was crying and screaming!
Jacob was breathing funny, couldn't walk and babbling~all the while wondering if he was going to die.
Something was terribly wrong with my little boy!