Hooray....He's back into the General Ed School!

As of yesterday's IEP, Caleb is back to our home school full time! He has come so far in such a short time! Per his ASD room teacher, "The gap between Caleb and the other autistic students is so wide now that it's no longer appropriate to have him here." Music to my ears........... :)

Also, during the IEP we found that he is right on grade level with reading, is passing all of his AR tests on reading, and actually is ahead of the game in a few concepts for math. He still has gaps in his learning that have to be filled in as he understands more concepts, but truly it's been an amazing day!

Caleb is having more general ed this year, with Gym class (which his Daddy teaches :) and Spanish class. We are also looking at gradually increasing his interaction with the Gen Ed students, and we'll see what happens with that.

For all who read....stick with Biomedical, homeopathy, and of course PRAYER! It works!

Our New Puppy!

We've found our puppy! Caleb is thrilled! He finds everything the puppy does hilarious. The great thing about getting the puppy is that he now is totally interested in other animals. He now notices the cats we've had for years, and tries to get them to do similar things as the dog. I woke up this morning to, "Come back kitty!" as he chased them around the yard. Then later he ran in yelling, "band-aid, band-aid..." as I assume his playing didn't go so well :) Caleb even spent a few hours watching the chickens at Great-Grandma's house as he plopped himself right down next to the fence talking to the chickens. He is TOTALLY into animals right now! Here are a few pics of our new puppy!

** On the biomedical note, we've also discovered we need to be treating Caleb with homeopathy for parasites (as I'm assuming he picked up from the dog). Once we started the remedy for worms, his mood again improved amazingly. **

Again Homeopathy!

I often hate to post good thinks for fear that it "jinxes" us a bit.... I know...the Lord is above all of that. This is why I'm posting! Such good things are happening here at home! Caleb has come leaps and bounds in just a few short weeks. He is now talking in mostly complete sentences! He went from, "Play computer?" to "Mommy, Can I play computer please?" and waiting for a reply. He also will answer many more questions! All is really due to the Lord's working on Caleb's body, and allowing homeopathy to be a path which agrees with Caleb. I can't say enough about homeopathy...either sequential or classical homeopathy. We've seen amazing results with both, but lately with sequential.

This is our homeopath: http://www.homeopathy.com/clinic/ (Rudi Verspoor). Caleb has come leaps and bounds in 3 weeks! Just imagine what years of normal development could have done for him?! Thank you Lord for this time of growth! Whatever may come, I thank Him for this period of success!

P.S. Here's a picture of our Christmas cookies (gluten free of course!). They were so good, and no one realized they're gluten free! That's how good I'm getting at baking :) lol

Happy Late Thanksgiving!

This has been a GREAT Thanksgiving Weekend! Caleb was SO on target! He has even begun asking simple questions! I can only relate his doing well to two things....homeopathy and chelation (which we began again after having had a long break from it). Both things were changed this past month, but whatever it is....it's working! I'm giving thanks to the Maker who's working miracles in my little boy!

As an update...we now have an aide for Caleb! Hooray! It was a long battle with the school, but we won :) She's doing great with him so far, and I'm excited to see where it leads.

Cell Salts to the Rescue!

I've been reading more about cell salts or tissue salts developed by Schueller. Using these tissue salts is much like homeopathy, but focuses on 12 remedies that all cells need to maintain health. Kind of like look at the micro level instead of always the macro. Anyhow, the reason I've done so is because a friend suggested looking at using Kali sulph (potassium sulfate) for my son's mood issues. Immediatelly after trying it, I was sold on cell salts! We've seen nice gains along with a more even keeled mood. I'm going to order a few others to try as they all seem to work together nicely (according to the book), and I'd like to deal a bit more with some of my son's latest issues. For example, he is sensitive to any light touch on his upper body. People will come and touch him to get his attention, and they're taken aback by his reaction to hit them quite readily. It isn't his fault or their fault. He just is sensitive. Thus I'm anxious to try a few other remedies as it really seems to bring together homeopathy and modern scientific research.


I remember in biology/chemistry that we talked about the elements needed to fire a nerve or a muscle cell (sodium, potassium, etc.) and it makes sense that if the body doesn't have enough of one of these, it's going to throw the entire body off in some way. I'm just really excited to learn and try more! Here's a few links to consider:

http://www.doctoryourself.com/cell_salts.html
http://homeoinfo.com/08_non-classical_topics/minimal/schuesslers_cell_salts.php
http://www.naturalhealthtechniques.com/HealingTechniques/cell_salts.htm

How to Find a Homeopath that is Knowlegeable in Autism (and other areas as well)

Lately, a lot of attention has been coming back to homeopathy for autism. I've been asked a few times about my experience and recommendations for homeopathy & a good homeopath. Here's my thoughts on that. (Hopefully this will make it to my website eventually).

• My experience with homeopathy and autism:

Pretty much all of my son's initial speech came about with homeopathy. I also credit his normalizing of bowel movements and food absorption to homeopathy. All with one remedy actually! It happened about 2 years ago over the course of about 5 months. Caleb was prescribed lycopodium 6c 3 times daily by a homeopath that we consult with (from England) over the phone/internet. It was based on Caleb's constitution (or his symptoms, personality, responses to food, stimuli, etc., temperment, etc). Anyhow, lycopodium did wonderful things! I would actually know it was time for his next dose when he suddenly got quiet again. After dosing, he would again regain his chattering and new speech. When the remedy began to aggrevate more then help several months later, we tried a few things, then eventually moved on to other remedies, but low and behold the changes in bowel and speech stuck! Since then he's slowly added to his speech and we've tried to again regain that amazing growth, but the growth has been slow and steady with needing to change tactics and remedies every 6 months or so. However, I am completely sold on homeopathy now! If only I could get my friends and family to be so enlightened :)

We've thus far had success with the bowel nosode Morgan Gaertner (because it complements lycopodium), carcinosin, pulsatilla, thuja (one of the first remedies I tried on my own due to it's reputation for healing after vaccines), and also sequential homeopathy to clear vaccines & address miasms through the Hahnemann Center for Heilkunst (Rudi Verspoor).

• Homeopathic Help:

Here are my recommendations if you're looking to try homeopathy:

• First, do some research on what homeopathy is, how dosing works, what types of remedies there are, and find some success stories on using it.
• Second, try to find a homeopath in your area. Here are the most common links to do so, but be sure to check your yellow pages or talk to people living near you.
  

http://nationalcenterforhomeopathy.org/resources/practitioners.jsp

http://www.homeopathy.org/directory_entrance.html

• Third, if you're unsuccessful, try some of these well known homeopaths for autism:

www.homeopathy.com (Hahnemann Center of Homeopathy) sequential
www.homeopathyhouston.com (Houston Center of Homeopathy) sequential
www.homeopathysnc.org/deborah_olenev.htm (Deborah Olenev) classical
www.homeopathysnc.org/dr_luc_de_schepper.htm (Dr. Luc De Schepper) classical
www.homepage.ntlworld.com/homeopathy_advice/contact.html or www.homeopathy.expert@googlemail.com (these are both contacts for my homeopath from England--Simon King)

• Other homeopathy resources:

www.abchomeopathy.com
www.hpathy.com (one of my favorite resources)
www.homeopathy-software.net
www.homeopathysnc.org
www.tinussmits.com
www.renresearch.com/autism.html (amy lansky's story)
www.homeopathy-help.net
http://www.recoveredfromautism.com/recoveryplan.htm
http://www.homeopathy-cures.com
http://www.homeopathic.com (educational resources)

July 4th Fireworks

We had a great 4th of July! Caleb had a few mood issues due to late nights, but overall it was a fun time. Our own fireworks were on the 4th, and city fireworks on the 5th.

We've been having great success with a few mood rna products by Amy Yasko. Her products are VERY pricey, but so far they've been WONDERFUL for mood. We're using Nerve Calm and Mood focus. Her websites are : www.ch3nutrigenomics.com (her discussion group), and www.holisticheal.com / www.holistichealth.com (her products & program). I've read that they are homeopathic products, but not sure if that's true. They are helping mood though! So far so good :)