Hi Donna, My child is a little girl. She is almost 4 years old and is absolutely beautiful. Michelle also sees her doctor, Maria New in Manhattan every three months. I have not had an emgerencies with my child. Every time that I thought I was going through an emergency, ie. high fever over 103 or voting; i would call the hospital and the repsonse was always the same, "give Michelle the emergency injection" and if she dosen't get better bring her in"! My own insticts told me not to give her the injection, which is 100 mg of cortef. Instead I doubled up on her dose. I also researched other forms of medical treatment for my daugther. Namely Homepathic Medicine. Homepathic medicine is healing through natural remedies. Michelle has taken remedies twice so far. The results for one have her behaving beautifully. The crankness which is associated with cortfel has disappeared and her overall health is much better. When she is sick with fever over a virus she works through it on her own. We have even reduced the amount of cortef she was taking. We are anxious to see if the second remedy will allow us to reduce cortef again. I can't tell you how hopefull and happy I feel since I meet Homepathic Doctors. I feel in my heart that there have to be better treatment for this condition without so many side affects and I for one want to seek out and find anything that will benefit my child. I understand that you feel that our genes are messed up and God knows I experienced a lot of pain upon having to deal with this condition. But please know that it's nobodies fault, our bodies are just not perfect. We also have a house upstate, near lake George. Perhaps we can meet!? Have a nice weekend.