Sugar-Free Lion’s Breath
I took Maria to the chiropractor Saturday. She was doing her choking thing so much that I almost went to get him when he was with his other patients. She was doing it when he came in once, and he said it was lion’s breath; that she was trying to get her cervical spine aligned or in place or something. When I asked for advice, he said to change her position, just like I did. He also suggested that perhaps her 7 days of almost nonstop sleeping is just her trying to re-set her neural pathways–now wouldn’t it be nice if that’s all it was?! She wouldn’t eat breakfast before we went to the doc’s and fell asleep on the way home, slept all day, and only barely ate a few blueberries and banana with a bite or two of zucchini. That and a couple bottles of milk was about all she had all day.
When I got home, I looked up lion’s breath, thinking I was going to finally understand why she’s been doing, and all I could find was that it has to do with yoga, where you open your mouth wide, stick out your tongue, and suck air in. Oh well, it couldn’t possibly be that easy, could it…
I managed to get some urine pretty well yesterday, but today was a different story… I don’t know which way to put on the baggy thing to catch the urine and I’m pretty sure I did it wrong today. So I finally got her to drink, but when she peed, most of it didn’t get into the baggy. I think I brought them about 10 drops. Fortunately it was enough to do the sugar test. Good news–both samples were ok, normal, negative, whatever it’s called. So the doc left a message and said I didn’t have anything to worry about (ha). At least I don’t have to freak about Maria having diabetes…
Maria did pretty well today. She stayed awake until 5pm, about 1 minute after Joe & Anne left (they brought her 4 wonderful outfits, for her birthday, that she can wear to school). She ate an ok breakfast, a really good lunch, and slept through dinner. She didn’t do her choking thing much at all today–maybe once or twice, if that. It’s just over a week until we go to the hospital; I’m actually kind of looking forward to it, in a weird way. We’re finally past the halfway mark for Manolis, only 2.5 months to go!