HAVE I LOST MY FREAKIN' MIND?

As most of you already know Prescott has been so sick and this mommy had finally had enough. I told the ent that I would not leave his office until he scheduled tubes and I didn't care that #8 ear infection hadn't happened yet. He finally agreed and I signed the paperwork, left his office and was feeling really good about things. That is until I got off the phone with Prescott's doctor and his last words went a little something like this, "Amanda, I think tubes are a good idea but I am not 100% convinced it is going to solve the problem." Those words rang through my mind the entire night as I held my crying baby. Extremely frustrated and at my wits end, I made the decision to take Prescott to a chiropractor. Try tubes Amanda because I don't know what else to tell you to do, is something you don't say to a mommy with a very sick child. I finally realized that the only way I was going to get my baby better was to take matters into my own hands. So off I went to take Prescott to the chiropractor. Which was very scary for me because I felt like the only reason I was only going chiropractor was because I didn't know what else to do. In my mind I figured a copay was all I had to loose. Well let's just say my jaw dropped to the ground when the chiropractor started asking me if Prescott was doing the very symptoms that his doctor and the ent said meant nothing. He made sense of everything, every symptom that everyone else told me had nothing to do his ear infections. I seriously wanted to kiss the man! So this is what the chiropractor told me. He must still be allergic to something in his amino based formula. Even though he is not getting hives or throwing up, whatever he is allergic to is causing inflammation in his sinus. The inflammation is backing up the mucus which is blocking the eustachian tubes, which then builds up fluid and grows bacteria which leads to the ear infections. This explains why he would seem like he was feeling better for the first day or two on the prescription but then the pressure would build back up causing another ear infection. So finally after 7 injections it killed the bacteria off. But the pressure in his sinus was still extremely painful and has the same symptoms as an ear infection. Which explains why he would was still acting like he had a ear infection but when I would take him in, his ear looked fine. This explains why he will only sleep upright, because the pressure of sleeping down is painful. This explains why he wanted to drink non stop at night because the sucking motion relieved pain in his sinus. This explains why Prescott would have drainage out his nostrils and to his chest, because how it drained depended on how bad the inflammation and infection was. So the chiropractor adjusted his first vertebrae in his neck and told me to start him on goats milk. YES, I just said goats milk, goats milk is the closest thing to a mom's breast milk and kids with allergies can usually handle it. I was a bit hesitate but since he was the only one who had made any sense of all the symptoms Prescott had been having I decided to give it a shot. I spent HOURS calling the formula company, pediatric allergists, other pediatricians, friends & family who had kids on goats milk and researching everything online the chiropractor told me. So Chad and I made the decision to try goats milk for a week just to see if it did help, why put tubes in his ears if he doesn't need them. But yet his doctor can't tell me what else to do or what else it could be. So I headed to the goat farm and bought some goats milk to feed my child. I drove home thinking to myself "Have I lost my freakin' mind?" So we started the goats milk and that very night Prescott only woke up once. He has now been on the goats milk for over a week and is a completely different baby. The chiropractor said it can take several weeks to get the inflammation down and the build up to drain. But we can already see a huge difference. My baby is happy again; he smiles, he laughs and he is not crying in pain anymore. His doctor doesn't believe anything the chiropractor told me because it doesn't have any scientific backing. Regardless of what his doctors and ent think, food allergies and ear infections are very connected and it is all over the internet. However, I have finally come to terms that I will never find a doctor who believes they are. So I do not care how or why but everything the chiropractor told me to try is working. I am so happy I made the decision to go see him and we will continue to see him. We also made the decision to hold off on tubes for now. We couldn't justify doing tubes just to do tubes. But if he gets another ear infection or this whole plan stops working, then Prescott will get tubes. This whole ordeal has been a VERY sensitive subject for me. Because my parents and next door neighbor were the only people who believed me. It was really hard to have people including the doctors say things like, "He's just spoiled!" or "He might just be a fussy baby!" Both of those comments nearly sent me up a wall. Because I knew Prescott was not just being spoiled or just fussy, he was in pain and you could hear it in his cry. Making a hurtful comment like that to a mommy who has spent 8 straight weeks, countless hours during the days and night after night of sleepless nights holding her crying baby who is clearly in pain just didn't sit well with me. But for now things are much better and I am not going to worry about what everyone else thinks anymore, I finally realized that I don't need validation from anyone. I never thought in a million years I would say that I love the chiropractor but I do. I also never thought I would love going to a goats farm but it is my new favorite farm and goats are my new favorite animal!Paislee has been such a great helper through all of this. There were times when honestly she saved me from a nervous breakdown. She could calm Prescott down long enough for me to cry and then catch my breath to start again. Like this day when she played beauty parlor with him.This was the day she was playing doctor and trying to make him feel better for me. I wish I would have went to Dr. Paislee and the chiropractor sooner!