We had a discussion of Kirby v. Fineberg at my friend's house when we were supposed to be discussing The Kite Runner. Actually, the rule was that you got put in timeout if you brought up special education, b/c we all have classified kids, but the custom kind of got honored in the breach.

Anyhoo, I was the only one there who'd tried chelation, and then we ran through a nice list of all the alterna-therapies we'd tried: magnets, crystals, vitamins, Fast ForWord (okay, there's a bit of data on that one). I was a little embarrassed to discover I'd done the most non-mainstream wackadoodle therapies: the chelation, gluten and casein free diet, cod liver oil, B-12, I forget what else. I feel guilty for trying some of it: part of me knew rationally that it didn't sound so well-supported, and I still cringe when I think of having to make her leave birthday parties when they served the cake. That's what I worry about (well, one in a crowded field): that someday I'll find out that something I did to save her (not that she needed saving, but I didn't understand that) ended up hurting her.