need advice, cheering up, anything

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Hi, all. I have so enjoyed learning and suffering and celebrating

with all of you, even though I am usually just a lurker. My own ds

is still fighting his apraxia/low tone. He was off the chart with

aluminum, antimony, and lead--but that's getting better. We are

GF/CF almost two years now. He'll be 3 in March. We have done two

years of cranio-sacral, chelated for a year, done B-12 injections a

year, changed cooking pots, clothing, bedding, air filtering, clay

baths, chiropractic, massive fish oil/B vitamin etc. supplements, and

still he's only labeling. His SLP says he'll really talk at some

point, and he doesn't need augmentative communication, but I am

getting desperate. He's done 20 hyperbaric dives in a hard chamber

at 1.5 ATA with 100% oxygen (in process for 40 by month's end) and

he's not improved at all. His DAN said he'd be a great candidate for

improvement given his profile (as did the SLP and O/T). And

nothing. I feel we are doomed. I am so upset at this point--

insurance won't pay for the hyperbarics (or anything else) and I am

broke and my kid still can't talk. He's in another city where the

hyperbaric doc is and staying with my folks, so I can't even see him

but on weekends (I have to stay here and work 2 jobs just to keep the

bills somewhat paid.) Any suggestions for something to help this

kid? Any ideas? Just a shoulder to cry on? Thank you all for

everything you do and share on the board. You are like second family.