Zurama - Autistic by Injection
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Zurama's Bio
 

I am the mother of five children, the youngest Michael or Mickie as we like to call him, was diagnosed with Autism at 22 months old.After years of early intervention therapy, which didn't work. I learned through trial and error that he had underlying biomedical problems that culminated in Autism like symptoms, including, chronic digestive problems since the age of one, when he received the MMR vaccine.
With biomedical interventions, gfcf  and SCD diets, Mickie's body is starting to heal. Some of the most severe symptoms, head banging, night waking, self injurious behaviors are almost gone.
He lost all speech by the age of three. He is now 10 years old and has just started to say mama, for the first time in almost 8 years.














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A Meltdown
by Zurama on 01.10.08 - public - 162 visits

Yesterday morning Mickie had a horrible meltdown. I felt really bad all day and though I wanted to write about it, I just couldn't. I felt drained the rest of the day.

It was 7:30 in the morning and I was dressing Mickie after his bath so I could take him with me to drop off one of his sisters at school. I was almost done and he had his hands in his pants. He has been doing this for the past few weeks-I think is related to yeast, but nevertheless, I very firmly told him to take his hands out of his pants. He leaned forward and pressed his head against mine. Then he took one hand out of his pants and grabbed my hair. Then he took his other hand out and grabbed on to my hair some more.

His sister managed to get him off me. Then a few seconds later he grabs my hair again-by then I had a huge headache. Then he proceeded to slam his head on the floor. His sister ran and got his helmet and I put it on.

He continued to slam his head so hard on the floor that the skin on his forehead had little blisters of blood under the skin-I don't even want to think about how his head would have looked like, if he had no helmet.

To make a long story short I had to call my father to stay with him, so I could take my daughter to school. There was no way he was going to get in the car at this point. She was late and I had to write her a note. I told them there had been a family crisis, that she has no control over.

I was a wreck the rest of the day. Welcome to my world.

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4muskateers
Posted on Mon, 11 Feb 2008

WOW. sweetie you have a really strong boy there. Just to share we keep the yeast under control by giveng Julian oil of oregano daily. Nothing grows in oregano. We are a RX free family. We have been doing the bio-medical stuff for 4 years now...but with the natural alternatives only.

carmel66
Posted on Thu, 10 Jan 2008

That kind of stuff can drain me for a week. I'm so sorry. It does sound yeasty. We have mild head banging and it usually appears with other "yeast" signals. Hang in there.Cathy

janneane7
Posted on Thu, 10 Jan 2008

Boy I know what those kinds of days feel like... they really can wipe you out. Hope today was much better

joshuapdd
Posted on Thu, 10 Jan 2008

I am so sorry for your hard day....

mommyof3gr8boys
Posted on Thu, 10 Jan 2008

I am so sorry! I know what that is like. EJ bangs the back of his head off the wall when he is in a meltdown, or kicks like crazy. I remember one meltdown where I took an elbow to the face. Thats what I love about this site you know that now matter what, the person responding knows how you feel. My friends with NT kids just have no idea just how different a tantrum and a meltdown are.

shannonj
Posted on Thu, 10 Jan 2008

Ohhhh...that was a tough day. I have had days like that as well--and it is amazing how those events can totally drain your energy for the rest of the day. Thank you for sharing, and I hoped it helped in some small way to get it off of your chest.

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