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our story Posted By: recoveringwishes
Posted On: 04/02/2008
AUTISM
Category: Life


we have ended up in the world of Autism because of our brave son Levi. Our son was not born autistic! He was developmentally meeting all his mile stones on time or early (accept crawling, he was talking at 10 months old and putting words together at 12 months old). He became very ill after his 6 month shots, diagnosied as RSV which he had for 8 month which later was changed to asthma. (an ear infection per month followed as well) 2 weeks prior to our sons first brithday we had him tested by the state with a program called Parents As Teachers to find out where he was developmentally and tested out at 18 months of age (6 months advanced) He then recieved his MMR and Convax shots at 12 months of age and changed THAT day. with in 9 hour he developed a seizer disorder that continues to effect him, and ran 104-105. He lost his eye contact, stopped responding to his name, stopped playing with his toys, and watching his movies, started obsessivly spinning things, lost all his lang, began lining things up, and having melt downs when he was redirected. He was so sick and became so self abusive that we were LITERALLY in the hospital or dr's officer 3 times a week with the head banging on the walls, floor and doors. even knocked himself out once. they told us that he was going to give himself brain damage or shaken baby syndrom if this continued and that we needed to pad his walls and put a helmet on him or institutionalize him.....this was our 1st born with all our dreams wrapped up in him....and all he would be, that just died on that day....I called the same organization 2 weeks after the shots to have this DIFFERENT child reEvaluated. he tested out at a 2-4 month old age level meaning we had lost 14-16 months development with his vaccinations. later we also found out he actually contracted the measels from his vaccination, and tetnus from his 6 month shots, he was also mercury poisened, leading to his immune system crashing. to top that, 4 kids died of the same batch my son got with one of his vaccination (with in 48 hours) and with the MMR one kid in the SAME TOWN got the same batch and had to have his leg from the knee down aputated.....yet neither were recalled......our son did start speach therapy and after 2 months there were no gains.....then an OT came to eval our son for services and discribed him to a T with out even meeting him. our son ONLY ate gram crackers, animal cracker and a drank a gallon of milk a day at this point, had sensory issues (couldn't touch wet or slimy things like fruits or veggies let alone eat them and yet under registared pain, HE actually cut himself with glass one time just,to watch himself bleed) he had started to walk on his toes, and flap ect.....she wasn't allowed to diagnosis him but offered me a book to barrow, called Biological Treatments of Autism and PDD, William Shaw. I saw my son ALL over this book, and at the end there was story from this mom that started doing this PROTICAL called DAN- defeat autism now, that brought about great results. we started the next day....DAN protical believes that AUTISM is where a kid has medical issues which results in symptoms we diagosis and CALL autism. As you address these medical issues, then the symptoms then disappear, resulting in no longer qualifing as Autistc but also healing the body to work like it's meant to work.... with 24 hours of just diet changes (gluten free. casein free) our sons eye contact came back, and he was more there, and ALL his self abuse stopped as well. we were impressed. we also noticed his zoning out spells stopped, (we had 80 of these a day before hand) which we later found out were absent seizers that were being triggered by the gluten, and when gluten was removed so were the seizers. ( if he accedently gets ahold of it, we see them return) he held out and wouldn't eat for 4 day, and then the day came when on day 4 he ate ANYTHING we put infront of him with out sensory issues ect, veggies, fruits, meats ect. we then decided to try something else in the book called DMG. (a food suppliment used to boost the immune system and triggers lang in 50% of ASD kids) with in 8 hours we had 8 words.....which we were in total disbelief, this is the same kid that LOST his lang and therpay hadn't brought about results. our speech therapist that day ASKED what we had changed, (she was floored to) she also noted that his attention went from 2 min to 45 min JUST THAT DAY, it was wild. we took it out to see if what we were seeing was real, (the lang did not stay when we took it out) and tried again in 2 weeks to have a full sentence of LOVE YA MAMA after just 4 hours of the first dose. I BAWLED. I hadn't heard mama in over a year and had forgotten what it sounded like. they had told us he would never talk again. we had hope.......to get our beloved son back......4 years later on this journey our son is now mainstreamed in kindergarden and before even attending his first day of school he was reading at a 4th grade level, spelling at a 3rd grade level, and doing math at a 1st grade level (now at a second grade level) he loves making powerpoint presentations and loves having friends to get together with. He has a great imagination, loves playing with his younger sister and teaching her things. He is social, has friends, loves entertaining the world!!! (he is a funny and smart kid) He has lost his diagnosis 2 times only to have a medical problem send him flying back on spectrum (GI scope sent him back a whole year in developement, and then scarlet fever) they are looking at gene SNPS right now to explain this as well. He is still slightly delayed in his speach but the teachers all say his classmates enjoy him and he is fitting in just fine. he will require no aid even next year for full day of first grade. This has lead to book chapter offers, speaking engadgments, ect for our family but the best and really important thing is it has allowed us to help other families on their journey to getting their child back, health wise and mind wise. our kids are trapped in their bodies that don't work right, as we heal them from the inside the mind follows....



GREAT AUTISM SITES

Generation rescue http://www.generationrescue.org/

Autism Research Institute- DAN Protical explained more http://www.autismwebsite.com/ari/index.htm

To find a friend/parent to help mentor you, and find resources (rescue angel) http://www.generationrescue.org/angels.php

To find a DAN (Defeat Autism Now) Dr. to help you. ****not all DAN dr's are created or trained equally, so I encourage you to find a rescue angel above to help you locate a QUALITY one. http://www.autismwebsite.com/ari-lists/danus.html



I hope this info helps many.....and bring many of our growing population of Autistic kids back to good health, physically, mentally, and nurologically.



Blessings

Christel King- proud mom of Levi
       
mercurymom wrote this reply on 04/02/2008
You story of loss is just like John's, sad, and so much like the ones I hear over and over...I am like you..I talk..I tell this story..young parents need to know this is happeneing and CAN HAPPEN to your child too!! Thank you and God bless you...Cheryl :)

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