For a long time, my son Timothy had a terrible time gaining weight. We honestly didn't think he could ever reach 60lbs. We, of course, credit this to his muscular dystrophy.
Then in August he had to go on the trach/Ventilator to help with his breathing. The respiritory is one of the issues that comes along with the muscular dystrophy. And honestly, we thought had the progressive muscular dystrophy.
But ever since he has had the ventilator to breath on, he has gained nearly 20 lbs. Gained...not lost!! For the longest time he weighed between 51-57 lbs. bouncing up and down between those numbers. The last doctor visit a week or two ago he was 64 lbs. He is now 72 lbs!
Before the ventilator he had to work harder to breath so it took so much out of him that he couldn't gain weight. Now that the ventilator is on, he doesn't have to work, so he is now able to gain weight.
Of coruse, right now he is laughing his head off, cuz he just saw something on TV where a lady's boobs blew up on her (she had silicon in her).
Glad to hear he is doing so well :)
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