Thursday, April 9, 2009

Introduction

I started this blog to bring awareness of the problem of food aversion, which my 8 1/2-year-old birth daughter, McKenna has suffered from since birth. She has been in numerous programs - the best of the best - all to no avail so she still has to use a feeding tube three times a day.
Despite having researched this problem since her infancy I still find no resources, and, amazingly enough, no one interested in researching or looking into this medical mystery.
I have contacted various TV talk and meidcal shows - not to exploit her - but just to try to bring the problem to someone's attention.
Incredibly, no doctors have ever heard of the problem, not even most pediatricians.
So, this blog serves but one purpose. Not to have readers gawk at pix of my daughter at the age she is now, nor to exploit her condition in any way, shape, or form, but only to educate and write my story from beginning to end in increments in hopes that someone out there in the medical field can finally help my daughter.
Despite her medical problem, she is a happy, healthy, vibrant, outgoing, popular, smart, and fearless child.
To look at her you would never know anything is wrong.
I love her abundantly, from the moon and beyond and I will not give up as long as there is a breath in my body of trying to find some help for her.