My 11-year-old daughter, Christy, was very mildly oxygen-deprived at birth. The doctor tells me this is why she has 20/20 vision in one eye and 20/200 in the other. We were clueless until she was 6. We knew she had horrible handwriting and had trouble knowing what a clean dish or clean bedroom looked like. It wasn’t until one evening she was sitting on my lap with her head turned almost completely sideways to see the book I was reading to her that we decided there was a problem. The eye doctor said she was too old for exercises or any possibility of improvement and that glasses were our best option.
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I just returned from the eye doctor. As of a year ago, her vision had not improved since the initial checkup at age 6. But today the doctor came out with a wide grin. “I don’t know how, but her eye seems to be growing! The cornea, the lens, the optic nerve are all showing signs of…I don’t even know what to call it. Growth? Regeneration? Improvement, to say the least. She still needs the glasses, but she can actually see out of them now, better than ever. We never see this kind of rapid improvement in a child past age two. It’s just a miracle! Can you bring her back once a month for a while so I can watch this?”

Absolutely! How exciting! My heart is doing back flips just to think that something measurable in one of us is changing and improving. There has been nothing different in our circumstances other than the testing of nourishing foods during January and a full-scale commitment in February. That there might be changes already—actual, measurable, verifiable, medically relevant changes—is staggering to me.

This post is part of Natural Cures blog carnival, hosted by Hartkeisonline, and Prevention, not Prescriptions.

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