On a recent trip, I went to visit a 6-month old little girl, whose parents had gotten in touch with me to ask for help with figuring out what is going on with her. By virtue of the medical detective work and interventions I had done with my own daughter, I am often asked to coach parents of children with all kinds of special needs. In this case, the girl’s Mom suspected her baby may have suffered hypoxia at birth. Barely a few days old, she had been put through a series of intense interventions, including a tracheotomy, G-tube, anti-seizure medications, Phenobarbital, several courses of antibiotics and so on. I had reviewed her entire medical file and it was clear that in addition to whatever may have happened at birth, there was also some type of mitochondrial dysfunction going on. One of her organic acids, involved in several important metabolic processes, was particularly low, several of the key organic acid ratios were off and her lipid metabolism seemed affected. I had prepared to talk to her Mom what other types of testing to discuss with their doctors, share referrals to specialists, therapy ideas, etc. and felt quite comfortable in what I could offer there. I had also spent a fair amount of time thinking about what I could pull out of my (still relatively limited) Eden Energy Medicine toolkit to help this little girl, but had come up with only general guesses about working with a few meridians that I suspected may be involved in what she was going through. Since I hadn’t seen her yet, I had no understanding of her energy state or even whether I would be able to assess it in any meaningful way. I had also never worked with anyone so young, so I didn’t feel confident I could offer much help in what seemed like a very complicated case.
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