Joshua's Story

Joshua is truly a gift that has been given back to us many times over.  When Joshua was 3 days old the easiest way to put it is my son had a stroke, was dehydrated and his blood sugar was really low the doctors said his blood just turned into sludge.  Joshua came very close to having brain surgery but due to a good doctor he held off and after a couple days the surgery was not needed as the clots were dissolving on thier own.  After sometime Joshua came home with all the medications and time schedules and we were told he may have learning problems later in life but they could not determine that at this time.  Things seemed to be going well until I noticed he was trying to rollover but he was not using his left side once again to a doctor and with some messaging he rolled over and sat by himself the first time on his first Christmas Eve.  We have several incidents since his infancy where his blood sugar dropped so low he had to hospitalized but with no reason for the blood sugar drop, thankfully we have not had a problem with this for a few years but due to the doctors telling us to always keep juice in the house Joshua's real weight problems started.  We have also had some very serious allergic reactions and they tested Joshua at the age of three which is not when they will usually do this and they didn't seem to find anything he was allergic to.  Just recently we had a detailed allergy testing done and the whole time we said he was allergic to grass which the first testing didn't show a reaction is now showing up, confusing because whenever he played in the grass without a shirt we were sure to be at the hospital.  I could go into a lot more details but I think the picture is pretty clear.  Joshua has been in the last year diagnosed with ADHD and anxiety disorder plus possible mood disorder the anxiety became so bad over this last summer that we could not get Joshua into a school because of the extreme bullying and teasing that the school insisted didn't go on but what has come out in therapy says something totally diffrenet.

This is my sweet Joshua with his dog Boomer.