Let the healing begin!

After reading the book about healing autism, ADHD, asthma and allergies, I was able to find a holistic nurse practitioner that came highly recommended. She used muscle testing on Mr C as well as an interview assessment and we were able to get the results this week. She stated that he tested positive for mercury poisoning, yeast overgrowth, bacteria, and wheat sensitivity.

As a result we have recently started him on a wheat free, anti-yeast diet to help his body heal. We have also been giving him supplements that rid the body of toxic metals, yeast, and bacteria. This is his second day on the program, so it’s hard to say whether there is any improvement at this time. We should see some differences in as little as two weeks and she said the whole process usually takes about 3 months.

Although I am just appalled that he has been carrying around mercury in his tissues, I am so happy to have found something to help him rid his body of this overload. The book showed how mercury can cause yeast overgrowth and sensory processing challenges. The yeast overgrowth causes inflammation that also leads to sensory processing challenges, allergies, and asthma.

It feels like such a relief to have likely found the actual cause to all of his difficulties in order to eliminate those as opposed to just constantly treating his symptoms. Time will tell if this actually works, but I highly recommend this route for all parents of children suffering from similar challenges.

What are you going to do?

Well, I knew it was probably too good to be true. Mr C hadn't woken up in the middle of the night for weeks until yesterday around 3 a.m. Although it was actually very easy to put him back to sleep. A quick brushing, 2 minutes of rocking and he was back to sleep before I even laid him in bed. However, I was not as lucky.

After tossing and turning for a couple hours, right when I was just about back to sleep again, I hear "Mommy, I need help!" At six in the morning, I groggily walked into the bathroom to find Mr C sitting on the toilet. "What do you need help with?" I said. Mr C proceeded to tell me that his lightning McQueen miniature car was in the toilet. I looked in the toilet and only found a nice pile of you know what.

I said, "I don't think so honey, I don't see him." He said, "No mom, he's under my poop." What!?! "How did he get under there??" "I don't know." he said. Just great, but what are you going to do, right? Nothing like fishing out a toy from underneath a pile of poop at 6 a.m. Gotta love little boys!

Mr C is going to be a big brother!

Well, things have been very hectic lately, but I am excited to announce that Mr C is going to be a big brother. We went for the ultrasound last week and decided to take Mr C with us. This turned out somewhat similar to the experience at the eye doctor.

At first he began to get extremely upset and scream irrationally while jumping up and down. After my husband took him to the lobby for a short period of time we were able to gently coax him into the room long enough to see the baby on the screen. However, when asked by the tech if he wanted to hear the baby's heart beat he immediately replied "No!"

Since seeing the baby he has been especially interested in my belly and making lots of effort to hug, kiss and talk to the baby. The other night, when asked what he wanted to thank God for that day, during prayer time, he said "For the baby." So sweet!

Things have been going pretty well with him otherwise lately. His language has really improved substantially and we have about three more weeks left of the therapuetic listening to finish. Our next step begins this Thursday at an appointment with a holistic nurse practicioner. We are going to get Mr C tested for any possible heavy metals within his system, yeast overgrowth, and additional allergy sensitivities.

As the result of a book that was recommended by a holistic doctor friend in Michigan titled, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Allergies, and Asthma, I have become very interested in these aspects as to how they relate to behavior and these 4-A disorders which I believe also includes sensory processing disorder. Very very interesting, check it out!!