The great lead scare

Well, I've been wondering if I'm insane for a while. I still don't know...in fact, I know even less. What I do know is that our Hair Elements tests showed that the girls have (had?) elevated lead levels. And I know that I spent several nights reading and worrying over this very informative MDC post, which I highly recommend to anyone who may ever buy an older house. And I freaked out in front of the girls, crying and cleaning and trying to get them to play only downstairs. (I bought swab tests from Lowe's and found lots of lead upstairs and in Daddy's office.) And Daddy was having his own issues (in line with the strange astrological goings-on, I suppose).

Anyway, we got a semi-traumatic* venous blood-test that showed almost no lead and normal calcium and iron levels. WTF? So I guess it's not this house (though clearly there is lead here), and either the NCD, time, and/or diet is healing these girls. I guess it's healing--although from what I understand, the damage with lead is fairly immediate (ie, the body mistakes lead for calcium, and it is knit into the bones and remains there for at least 20 years). But at least the onslaught seems to be over. Except that I continue to worry. Did lead do additional damage? Is there damage? Am I just a complete control freak, and all the little things I think are "wrong" are just "personality"? My gut says no, but I'm trying to stay open to the possibility that I am insane. [Insert maniacal laugh here.]

I've been taking flower remedies (in addition to our daily use of Rescue Remedy) to try to alleviate my worry and to learn something from everything that is going on. I've added Chestnut Bud to Cherry Plum and White Chestnut (although after reading the description of White Chestnut, I thin it's not exactly what I need...).

Anyway, anyway: Here are our lab results--mine, Nico's, and Lena's. I want to test again in six months and see if anything changes.

(*Nico went first, cried, but said to Lena soon after--and right before crying some more--that it "wasn't that bad, Lena." Lena thought it was that bad.)