{"id":287,"date":"2013-11-16T16:16:16","date_gmt":"2013-11-16T16:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/empoweringdrmom.wordpress.com\/?p=287"},"modified":"2018-12-31T17:18:30","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T17:18:30","slug":"pandas-delighting-in-the-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empoweringdrmom.com\/index.php\/2013\/11\/16\/pandas-delighting-in-the-recovery\/","title":{"rendered":"PANDAS &#8211; delighting in the recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, how I am delighting in the healing process\u2026.&nbsp; This morning my little buddy climbed in between me and his daddy in bed.&nbsp; At first sight of him, I was not thrilled with his arrival in our bedroom.&nbsp; I have never enjoyed having him come to \u201csnuggle\u201d because he just won\u2019t be still.&nbsp; We beg him to hold his body still \u2013 to no avail\u2026.for years.&nbsp; It\u2019s a knee jerk into my back or an arm slap or some other physical annoyance when all I want to do is sleep at 6AM&nbsp;on a Saturday morning.&nbsp; Well, this morning was special.&nbsp; J held his body still.&nbsp; He put his back against mine and lay in the bed for 30 minutes or more.&nbsp;&nbsp; At first I thought I was mistaken about which child had joined us.&nbsp; After confirming it was my J, I had to speak to him to be sure he was really awake.&nbsp; Totally awake.&nbsp; Wow.&nbsp; I have read that PANDAS causes tics, but I didn\u2019t really think we were dealing with that \u2013 my J is just hyperactive.&nbsp; But, now I wonder if the non-stop movement is related to tics caused by PANDAS.&nbsp; I laid there reflecting on the other changes I\u2019ve seen this week.&nbsp; On the way to school yesterday, he said to me, \u201cmommy, can you teach me to read?\u201d Up until this point it seemed he had no interest in such things.&nbsp; Over the last two weeks, he has started to really enjoy his soccer ball.&nbsp; The ball never held his attention for more than a minute or two in the past.&nbsp; He doesn\u2019t have a basketball, so he has started to dribble his soccer ball \u2013 he has asked me to count how many times he can dribble it.&nbsp; This may sound like a totally normal boy to you, and that is really my point.&nbsp; He has never been \u201cnormal,\u201d and I am loving it!!&nbsp; Praise God for this amazing progress!&nbsp; 4 weeks on On Guard Plus to fight the PANDAS \u2013 that\u2019s all we have changed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/empoweringdrmom.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/08\/edm-signature.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/empoweringdrmom.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/08\/edm-signature.jpg\" alt=\"edm-signature\" width=\"188\" height=\"55\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, how I am delighting in the healing process\u2026.&nbsp; This morning my little buddy climbed in between me and his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,6,19],"tags":[20,15,21],"class_list":["post-287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-essential-oils","category-j","category-pandas","tag-adhd","tag-essential-oils-2","tag-tics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/empoweringdrmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/41LP6sw-6ZL.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/empoweringdrmom.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/empoweringdrmom.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/empoweringdrmom.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringdrmom.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringdrmom.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringdrmom.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":591,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringdrmom.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions\/591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringdrmom.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/empoweringdrmom.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringdrmom.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringdrmom.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}