Sodium

from the time garnet spears turned into born on

december 3rd 2008 he become a unwell child at

just two months old he stopped being

able to preserve meals down and he began

losing weight his mom lacy switched

him from breast milk to system thinking

that might help but it didn't so she

switched to a aggregate between breast

milk and formula that did not work so she

delivered him to the medical doctor after going for walks

a blood check it became decided garnett's

sodium degrees have been too excessive which become

maximum in all likelihood the cause for his disillusioned

stomach and so the physician gave garnett

an iv which flushed the sodium out of

his machine and immediately garnett

seemed higher off after which afterwards

whilst lacey asked the health practitioner why could

this be going on he said he failed to understand

that possibly it became some thing in his

method or maybe even something in her

breast milk he gave her a few

recommendation on what she need to be eating and

then gave her the compulsory reminder to

you know don't provide him whatever besides

breast milk or formulation he gave her

special method to use and then he sent

her on her manner in spite of following

physician's orders over the following numerous

months garnett persisted to get unwell be

introduced into the health practitioner's workplace best to

discover his sodium stages were increased

again eventually after nine months of this

still going on and lacey now not getting any

answers about what was happening along with her

son she delivered him to a consultant who

advised as a quick-term answer why

don't we simply put a feeding tube

directly into garnett's abdomen that way

we are able to guarantee he's getting the precise

proper mix of vitamins and if he is nonetheless

having improved sodium stages after that

then we'll study other reasons this

may be going on after it turned into inserted

garnett's condition appeared to

dramatically improve main doctors to

accept as true with it needed to were some abnormal

factor in the components or

some thing interior of lacy's breast milk

however no matter his stepped forward situation

garnett turned into not a hundred healthful over the

following couple of years periodically his sodium

levels could spike which no physician should

explain and it'd motive belly pains

and headaches and in some times it

might motive seizures and lacy who

diligently documented every unmarried meals

fluid some thing that went inner of her

son at the primary sign of trouble she

would rush him to the medical institution however all

docs should ever do became administer an

iv to flush the sodium out after which deliver

her the compulsory reminder to simplest feed

him positive meals that were low in

sodium and so for the following couple of years

existence went on like that during 2012 while

garnett turned into four they moved out of

lacey's homeland in alabama to new york

they moved into a retirement community

referred to as the fellowship that's a place

in which younger people can pass and stay for

unfastened in exchange for being concerned for the

aged and garnett cherished it there he

could run across the halls and poke his

head inside the older parents room and that they

all cherished garnett it became really only a

glad vicinity for each lacey and for

garnett for the duration of that time lacey started a

weblog known as garnett the tremendous which

documented garnet's existence and their kind

of collective struggles to discern out

what was going on with garnett with

those bizarre sodium level spikes the blog

won loads of assist now not best because

of garnett's situation however due to the fact this

became now not the first complication the mother

and son had had to face while lacey changed into

pregnant with garnett garnett's father

who become a police officer was killed in a

car coincidence and so the supporters of

this blog were sincerely keen to find approaches

to provide again and help this mom and

son but no quantity of affection and support

could have averted what befell in

january of 2014. on the seventeenth of that

month garnett wakened with a excessive fever

and stomach pains and on the drive into

the health facility he had a seizure when they

arrived medical doctors examined garnett's blood

and prefer typical his sodium stages had been

through the roof and in order that they

administered an iv which decreased his

symptoms and after he became back to everyday

they stated they wanted to maintain him on the

clinic for a couple of days to take a look at

him due to that seizure he had they

desired to make certain that one it failed to

appear once more and two there wasn't

some thing else going on for the primary

two days of garnett's remark on the

health center he was asymptomatic they examined

his blood his sodium tiers have been ordinary

and the entirety seemed to be going quality

and actually they have been getting ready to

discharge him while all the unexpected on

january 19th so days after arriving

he suddenly seemed to be in a good deal worse

shape after they examined his blood sure

sufficient his sodium ranges were at an

all-time high and so after giving him an

iv and trying to decrease his sodium

levels it simply wasn't occurring quickly

sufficient and in order that they transferred him to a

specialised kid's health facility that

ought to handle this example higher and

they were able to convey his stages again

down to normal however the damage had

been performed this very last great sodium

spike had led to large brain swelling

that ultimately killed him a couple of

days later after his death medical doctors have been

baffled at how his sodium may want to have

spiked on january nineteenth due to the fact they have been

intently tracking what changed into going into

his frame and sodium does no longer simply

seem in your frame it desires to

be inserted into your frame and so that they

reviewed all of his clinical files and

that blanketed looking at the pictures of

the digital camera that had been installation at the

foot of the bed going through garnett to

display him for seizures and on that

digital camera they saw his personal mother lacey

take him off the bed at the 19th wearing

a white cup and an attachment to

garnett's feeder tube she takes garnett

away from bed she walks him into the

toilet couple minutes later she brings

him returned places him back in mattress and

seconds later he is violently ill they

are available they take a look at his blood and what do

you already know the sodium is at that important

high factor that in the long run killed him

doctors have been manifestly very suspicious

of lacey in what she changed into doing with her

son within the toilet and so that they confirmed

it to police police release an

investigation they visit lacy's house

and as soon as they stroll interior there's

table salt all around the residence there's

salt on each table and internal of the

boy's room become an iv stand with this

brackish searching liquid internal of an iv

bag that they examined and it become salt

water that contained the equal of

70 salt packets lacy were

deliberately poisoning her son with too

lots salt in view that he become born because she

liked the eye she obtained lacey

had a history of lying to get interest

she used to lie as a kid and at the same time as an

grownup approximately one-of-a-kind illnesses that she

said she had and he or she also lied approximately

garnet's father he turned into now not a police

officer he had not been killed in an

coincidence he turned into just a former buddy

that she refused to permit see garnett

at some point of garnett's very last health facility live

after doctors knowledgeable lacey that her

son's brain had swollen so much it become

unlikely he would survive all resulting from

lacy she published this photo to facebook

rapidly after garnett slipped into a

coma and never regained attention he

changed into six years vintage lacey changed into sentenced to

two decades to lifestyles in jail.