Some random updates

I wondered if she'd get it. So I asked. "Jaden, what do you want to do when you grow up? Do you want to be a Doctor? Or an artist? a Mom?" Thinking, thinking, thinking. No answer. Then, "I want to be all of them!" Sniff. That's my girl.
My girl has yeast flaring due to the hyperbarics but keeping her on an antifungal has helped. She went on Nystatin for 20 days and that worked out well and then we switched to Diflucan, as part of the 'anti-fungal parade' for chronic dysbiosis. Within about 3 or 4 days of switching, Jaden started getting irritable, giggling at nothing and slipping away. I have seen it too many times to not notice! I had thought in the past that diflucan just doesn't work anymore for her but you know how it is: let's just try this one more time. I called the Doctor and had my girl switched back to Nystatin and within two days of that, she is back to her sweet, interested self.
We are on dive number 20, I believe, in Hyperbarics. Jaden really enjoys the time we spend in the 'spaceship', as we are close, close, close! and we watch her new favorite DVD: the Berenstain Bears. Over and over and over.
I made an appointment for Jaden to have her mercury filling removed and replaced with composite. This is our third appointment, the first doctor cancelled because he was afraid to treat an autistic child and the second one had a child die in her office just two weeks before our scheduled appointment. I cancelled that appointment. The new appointment is with a dentist in Sanford (our old hometown!) at the end of June. This dentist does safe removal of mercury from the mouth. Once that is done, Jaden can begin chelation, which is the only treatment we have not yet been able to successfully finish with her. It's probably the one that will tip her back over the edge, into a typical world with a typical life, able to relate to others and get along in this world. That's my prayer. Jesus promised and He is faithful.