Jack Wood
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Jonathan was adopted. He, at age two and a half, contracted what's called nephrotic syndrome. It's a kidney disorder where one of the membranes stops processing protein. You urinate away your protein, and then if you catch a cold, you die. Ugly disorder. There's only three medications back when this took place, and this would have been in 1990, 91, cyclosporine, cytoxin, and prednisone.
Jonathan was adopted. He, at age two and a half, contracted what's called nephrotic syndrome. It's a kidney disorder where one of the membranes stops processing protein. You urinate away your protein, and then if you catch a cold, you die. Ugly disorder. There's only three medications back when this took place, and this would have been in 1990, 91, cyclosporine, cytoxin, and prednisone.
Jonathan was adopted. He, at age two and a half, contracted what's called nephrotic syndrome. It's a kidney disorder where one of the membranes stops processing protein. You urinate away your protein, and then if you catch a cold, you die. Ugly disorder. There's only three medications back when this took place, and this would have been in 1990, 91, cyclosporine, cytoxin, and prednisone.
They put him on 55 milligrams of prednisone, and it goes 14 days, and the kidney starts working again. Then we go three or four months and it stops working again. They go through that. When the prednisone doesn't work, then they put him back on Cytoxan, which was a kidney rejection. And the other one was a cancer drug. So he went through those all the way up till age eight.
They put him on 55 milligrams of prednisone, and it goes 14 days, and the kidney starts working again. Then we go three or four months and it stops working again. They go through that. When the prednisone doesn't work, then they put him back on Cytoxan, which was a kidney rejection. And the other one was a cancer drug. So he went through those all the way up till age eight.
They put him on 55 milligrams of prednisone, and it goes 14 days, and the kidney starts working again. Then we go three or four months and it stops working again. They go through that. When the prednisone doesn't work, then they put him back on Cytoxan, which was a kidney rejection. And the other one was a cancer drug. So he went through those all the way up till age eight.
Unbelievable amount of trauma was physical induced from the heavy dose of medication.
Unbelievable amount of trauma was physical induced from the heavy dose of medication.
Unbelievable amount of trauma was physical induced from the heavy dose of medication.
He had his last episode when he was eight years old and it's considered in remission. At age 11, he had a cyst the size of a large marble in the center of his left kidney. and ended up having major surgery in Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, and they took a third of his left kidney. It was then that the behavior problem started.
He had his last episode when he was eight years old and it's considered in remission. At age 11, he had a cyst the size of a large marble in the center of his left kidney. and ended up having major surgery in Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, and they took a third of his left kidney. It was then that the behavior problem started.
He had his last episode when he was eight years old and it's considered in remission. At age 11, he had a cyst the size of a large marble in the center of his left kidney. and ended up having major surgery in Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, and they took a third of his left kidney. It was then that the behavior problem started.
It went all through grade school and all through high school trying to figure out what it was, and they looked at everything from oppositional defiance to reactive attachment disorder to obsessive compulsive disorder to early onset bipolar, all different And they tried a number of things. And we spent 15 visits to the Ohio State Medical Center to try a diagnosis issue.
It went all through grade school and all through high school trying to figure out what it was, and they looked at everything from oppositional defiance to reactive attachment disorder to obsessive compulsive disorder to early onset bipolar, all different And they tried a number of things. And we spent 15 visits to the Ohio State Medical Center to try a diagnosis issue.
It went all through grade school and all through high school trying to figure out what it was, and they looked at everything from oppositional defiance to reactive attachment disorder to obsessive compulsive disorder to early onset bipolar, all different And they tried a number of things. And we spent 15 visits to the Ohio State Medical Center to try a diagnosis issue.
And Dr. Freestadt, who was the chief psychologist at OSU, actually was the number one psychologist in the country by the American Academy of Psychiatry. for her work in child and adolescent mood disorders. Never got the thing solved.
And Dr. Freestadt, who was the chief psychologist at OSU, actually was the number one psychologist in the country by the American Academy of Psychiatry. for her work in child and adolescent mood disorders. Never got the thing solved.