I am way too neglectful of this little corner I call mine. Time to dust you off, little blog, while I have both hands free to put my thoughts in black and white.
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My big guy was diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder in January 2013. It's been 10 months now, and I can't say that I'm any more acquainted with Autism now than I was before we knew what to call "it". I had our fourth little one about a month after the diagnosis, hence the radio silence.
I've gone through several ranges of emotions about our guy's Autism since he was diagnosed. I've read a few books, pored over blogs until I can't see straight, read about this and that treatment, researched researched researched.
Still not well acquainted with Autism. I'm better acquainted with my boy, though.
Through my blog-reading I read about biomedical treatments for Autism, and for now it's the way we decided to go. We were awarded a grant through Generation Rescue to get started with biomed, and through that we ended up getting a couple comped appointments with a local ND.
Talk about changing my thinking. Check kids for medical issues FIRST, before doing things like Occupational Therapy? Umm, okay . . . so we did it. We jumped in with both feet, and it's made a world of difference. My only regret is that I haven't been logging the changes here!
We have completely re-vamped our diet, added some supplements, cleaned up our cleaners, and started using some essential oils for symptom management. The changes have been, in a word, amazing. I can have a conversation with my boy. He's 77% toilet trained. He's eating vegetables (not a lot, but it's voluntary!).
Amazing.
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This has been a tough journey. Nothing at all like I expected.
Looking back at previous blog posts, I wonder at the wide-eyed anticipation. This journey, this Autism journey, is not what I signed up for, Lord.
But you knew this was coming, and you prepared me.
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