Manicure for a reward

So, my wife and daughter had a good visit with the homeopathic doctor and after reviewing the status of the past four weeks.  Even with all that we posted about her routines and habits, we mentioned that the past two days we've seen glimpses of improvement. We even mentioned that she had her nails done and that she was not happy about the smell once we got back in the car.

The doctor didn't want to bias her work by reviewing this blog because she feared it would make her micromanage our daughter's progress plan.  Furthermore, she stated that there are over 600 remedies in her database to deal with our daughter's situation.  Dr. Shelly is using Stramonium because she states that most of her symptoms seem to be coming from post traumatic stress disorder and is working from that as the primary issue with her anxiety disorders.  So, she is still very pleased with her progress and was especially pleased with learning of her recent improvements.  The recommendation from Dr. Shelly was to continue with the current remedy and dosage (3-4 pellets each day 20 minutes before food or drink and no food or drink for 20 minutes after) then come back in four weeks or call before then if any significant developments.

Additionally, our daughter had a session with her therapist today (they have the day off from school today and tomorrow) and seems very uplifted after the session.  What we're encouraged by is that the past two days she's reduced her toilet routine by half at bedtime.

What's discouraging is that on the way home tonight I had to stay on the phone while driving to calm her down while she removed the fingernail polish from her nails because she hates the smell of the polish remover.  What's encouraging about that is that she wanted to do it herself regardless of how much she hates it.  She sobbed and cried, but eventually she got through it with my encouraging words.

What's discouraging is that while I write this our daughter is now 30 minutes still sitting on the toilet even after yelling up to her that she's been on the toilet entirely too long again.

Perhaps she'll still do better with not being scared to sleep with the light off in her room and not yell out to us that she's scared even after we leave the room.

Well, it's now an hour later and she just came downstairs to cry.  She admitted to pulling out some eye lashes while sitting on the toilet and just "couldn't get off the toilet and got bored, so I pulled out some eyelashes."  My wife and her argued about, "Now my eyelashes are all curled wrong from pulling them out," and grabs her mother's glasses to put them on her to prove that her eyelashes are "jacked up" and my wife didn't agree with her, and now there's sobbing and arguing about them being curled wrong.  I overheard Beth asking Julie if she felt like she let herself down now, and Julie said, "yes, now I have to start all over again!"  Fortunately we knew what that meant (I want to pull all of them out and start over again), so Beth said, "That doesn't mean you have to pull them all out, just let the ones you pulled out catch up with the other ones."  We'll see if Julie cuts herself some slack.  Beth explained to her that there will be set backs on the road to recovery, so don't be so hard on yourself.

Lord, heal our daughter.  In your son's name, we pray,
Amen.