I will share something with everyone. Please please be careful if you have pets or if you are around…

I will share something with everyone. Please please be careful if you have pets or if you are around someone who has pets. If you buy them from someone who doesn’t get them checked how would you know if your pet is clean?

I had a problem with my son 2 years ago. I never got an answer to what the problem was but I am 100% sure it was because of my cousins cat. My son had diarrhea last him 3 months. The school called cps on me and they threatened to take my son from me. I went to hospitals, his pediatrician countless times, to 2 different gastroenterologists and all of the blood work and urine came out fine. My son was having diarrhea 30 times a day. That lasted for the first month. The second month went down to like 10 times a day. By the 3rd month it went down to about 3 times a day and if he was lucky would have a day or 2 in between with no diarrhea. At first when it started, I did not put 2 and 2 together that the same day he played with my cousins cat, that hours later he would start diarrhea at 4:00 in the morning. At first I thought it was a stomach virus. The pediatricians thought the same thing. The brat diet didn’t work. They put him on probiotics and that didn’t work. We tried different medications etc. We checked for E. coli and salmonella and those came out fine. They checked for a few parasites and that came out fine. While his kindergarten teacher thought that I didn’t care, no one thought about me. I was upset that I didn’t know what was happening with my son and that I didn’t have the cure to help him. I thought that he had cancer at some point because that isn’t normal to get so sick like that. I wanted him to get an endoscopy but both the gastroenterologist at the time refused to do it. Maybe that would gave us the answer we were looking for? By the 3rd month luckily it was Imodium that helped him. It was like magic and the diarrhea stopped within the next day. I was so happy that he was ok again.

When I asked my cousin if her cat was clean she changed her story and that’s what made me point the finger as the cat being the source of why my son was sick. She first told me that the people she bought it from vaccinated it. Then she changed her story and said that she brought it to the vet and got it vaccinated. She never brought it to the vet. 🙄

She refused to believe that her cat could pass something because in her mind it’s clean. That pissed me off because god forbid if my son would have died. What if I went to jail for something I didn’t do or cause to him? Very irresponsible on her part. I never brought my son there again because I don’t know if it could have been eggs from a parasite that he could have been ingested from the air since the litter box open with no lid or if he touched the cat and then touched his mouth. I will never have an answer for that horrible incident. All I’m left with is still feeling traumatized when I remember the hell I went through with the lady from cps that threatened me everyday and his school. I have health problems because of them with the constant stress, depression and worrying about what would have happened to me and to my son. The only people who backed me up were the doctors. They were mad at the school stressing me and the social worker because they saw that I wasn’t negligent and I brought my son to the doctors almost daily. I was very happy and surprised when his pediatrician told that lady to back off and that I’m taking care of the situation. The cps worker wasted my time and asked me silly questions like if I have any diseases that she will take my kid away. This is why when I think of my post yesterday about children like Gabriel they really need help. Sure I may have seemed suspicious at first like why is your kid getting sick all the time but I complied with her and gave her all the information she needed. When she saw how complex the situation was then finally she stopped with the attitude and then said that I was doing a good job. Unfortunately children who need that help don’t always get a tough worker like her who will get to the bottom of things. I guess I just wanted to get this off my chest and just worn parents of the strange and horrible thing I went through. It wasn’t easy and I still feel like certain people at my sons school look down on me without really understanding the hell we went through. His kindergarten teachers weren’t good with me but I can do a whole separate post on them another time. I’m just glad that my son ended up ok after that nightmarish ordeal.

I also want to say I hope I don’t offend anyone. I had a pet cat and I was close with her. She was a house cat but even she wasn’t 100% clean. She gave me ring worm once and she’s had fleas before. Animals can carry all sorts of things that we may not be able to see with our own eyes. So if your children ever experience chronic diarrhea and you don’t have an answer for that just Incase run all tests on them, check for parasites and it could be possible they had contact with an animal that carried something. Unfortunately I feel like maybe if I was able to get more tests on parasites done, I would have had an answer. I believe that he must have had a type of parasite that we weren’t able to detect.