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This is a 400 summary of Chloe's recovery journey:


As our daughter got her environmental, pollen, food allergies and asthma under control with diet and medication her pediatrician kept an eye on these issues but also introduced us to pharmaceutical grade fish oil (special ratio of oils). It is reasonable priced and delivered to our home monthly. The theory behind this was to increase brain conductivity and exercise would improve Chloe abilities.

Chloe was born 18 years ago with a neurological disorder called “floppy infant” caused by extremely low tone and rapid growth. Chloe had to work at achieving all her milestone by physical, occupational and speech therapies. These therapies were to give us suggestions on what we needed to keep working on as homework, a daily routine we followed up with at home.

This August we saw an orthopedic doctor who took many x-rays of her shoulders. What he said she did was to get her right shoulder joint working correctly but the left shoulder is still not using the small core muscles under the large muscles. He suggested that if she got the right shoulder working with exercise then she can do the left the same way: walking stretching exercises and ball activities (basket ball, soccer). This was a remarkable that the shoulders started working with just exercise so maybe the pharmaceutical grade fish oil was a help.

Chloe’s arms and shoulders are steadily improving. She is presently working on her GED in the morning. Two afternoons a week she works with a personal trainer, one day a week she works with a music therapist and at least 2 days a week she works out on her own. She has always worked on her fine motor skills: playing piano and recorder also she is improving her typing speed. Chloe was doing this even when here shoulders weren’t able to do gross motor activities like raising her arm over her head.

So how much has been achieved with just exercise or the fish oil and exercise we may never know. We are just grateful that it is working!