The homeopathic treatment for the ear infection is working--the ear pain is nearly gone and the redness is less. DD will go to school in the morning, then another dr's visit to see if the ears are cleared up. The ear infection remedy seems to be helping the JRA a bit too, her foot pain is almost all gone and the swelling is down by about 25%. She was hardly able to walk on her foot on Monday night, this afternoon she was running around, frolicking with Lynn's DD2, not a sign of discomfort. She's still limping, but not as much.

This may be a good thing in the long run--an honest to goodness full blown flare up in conjunction with an ear infection has given the homeopath a lot of info to go on for figuring out what's going on and getting a good long term remedy/solution.

I was really upset Monday night (we mothers blame ourselves for everything, even if we know it isn't our fault we can MAKE it our fault, can't we? Is that a control issue, I wonder?) but I'm doing everything I can right now and there's improvement. And I'm not having steroids injected into her joints making them weaker and weaker, which is the only course open to me allopathically. Not doin it, don't care that that's the standard of care!

So here's hoping we get a good remedy for this and knock it down.

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Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.

-- Albert Schweitzer