mommyof3gr8boys - Acceptance is the Cure!
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State: PA
Country: USA
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Hi, my name is Christie, I am 28 and have been married to my husband Eric, for over 7 years now  We have been together for almost 12 years (high school sweethearts).  He is an Electrical Engineer and I am a SAHM but also going to school part time for psychology.  We had our first child EJ (Eric Jr) in 2002.  He is dxed with PDDNOS,  Anxiety, Sensory Processing Disorder, Dispraxia, and an articulation disorder.  Quite a lot for a 5 year old boy!  He was just dxed this past May.  Although out sons psychiatrist prepared us about 6 months ahead of time.  They also think he will probably have his dx changed to aspergers when he is a bit older.  EJ is very high functioning he is in a regular classroom most of the day.  He spends 15 min in the morning in an Autism Support Classroom and 30 mins a week in OT, and 30 mins a week in ST.  He also has a TSS with him the entire day (half day k).  Besides in school he goes to out paitent OT once a week for an hour, he also goes to a psychiatrist once a month, and has a mobile therapist who spends 2 hours a week with him.  We are in the process of learning more about the SCERTS model and trying to implement it. 






Our second son Addison is 3.5 he was a premie born a month early, but very healthy!  He is our little joker.  He is ver small for his age but so adorable.  He too has some issues... we are in the process of having him evaluated. His speech evaluation gave him a dx of communication delay and now they are going to be doing and autism eval.  for a long time i thought NO ways Addison doesnt have autism.  Now, i dont know, I really think we might get that diagnosis again..Hopefully we will know more about it soon.  I feel like he has major sensory issues as well and when i do EJs sensory diet, Addison likes to join in.  I feel like he sometimes gets lost in the shuffle being the middle child, we try to give him a little extra when we can. 






Cohen is our baby he was just born this past August (the day after EJs 5th bday!) he is now 4 months old 15lbs, and has several teeth!! He is so health and we are so happy, we tried to get pregant for almost 2 years.  I found out i was going to be having Cohen last christmas eve.  I ended up spending all but my frist trimester on bed rest.  I then went into preterm labor at 25 weeks (around the time of EJs dx) i spend 2 weeks in labor and on all kinds of meds to try and get it to stop.  Finally they were able to and I spend a month in the hospital before being sent home on meds and bed rest for the remaineder of my pregnancy till i had him by c-section.  He was my biggest baby at 7lbs 4.4 oz!!






Well that is a quick glimps into my life :)

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What About Recovery?
by mommyof3gr8boys on 01.16.08 - public - 128 visits

Today, my son's psychiatrist looked at me and said "We are going to get this little boy well, whatever, it takes". Which makes the fact that we are going to another psychiatrist even harder. I don't know if you can "recover" from Autism... I think that a person can learn to fit in to a normal world, control their behaviors, be who "normal people" expect them to be. There are different levels of "recovery". Take diabetes for instance, there are different stage. You can at various points during you live require less care. You may at some points be able to control it with diet and at others require insulin shots or other medications. You always have to do preventative care if you don't then things can flare up again causing regression. But no matter what you do you will always have diabetes. I think that autism is similar. While you may be at different levels of functioning, you always have to be on the defensive with it and stay one step ahead or you can have regression. And as i am currently finding out, even when you stay a step ahead regression can still catch up with you!

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Mrs.H.
Posted on Thu, 17 Jan 2008

I also like the diabetes idea. I wonder what the physician's definition of "well" consists of. Maybe its all the descriptors you mentioned. I think you just started a blog in my brain...good luck as well.

carmel66
Posted on Wed, 16 Jan 2008

I like the diabetes analogy. Good luck with the new doc.

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