Re: Re: Reintroducing myself too

[Guest guest]

That is great.

I hope my nine yr old weathers puberty as well. We are just heading

there and like everyone else knows you never know what to expect.

Everyday is a new day, each year a new year...so alles gutes zum Neuen

Jahr!!!

(mom to Kara in Illinois)

On Monday, December 22, 2003, at 09:11 AM, Jmcgwelch@... wrote:

> I've been on the list for many years. I have two daughters and a step

> daughter. The youngest is 11 and shows no sign of autism or PDD. My

> step daughter

> is 22 and is extremly ADD as is my spouse. My 13 year old was

> diagnosed with

> PDD nine years ago. She was mainstreamed into a regular classroom in

> Kindergarten and is now in the 7th grade in a parochial school that

> offers some

> special ed services. She is considered extrememly high functioning,

> with most of

> her symptoms disappearing each year. She has social akwardness, but

> is very

> social at home and with her girlfriends. She has a large group of

> friends at

> her school and is active in Girl Scouts and every sport offered in the

> area.

> Today she is singing with her Girl Scout troop at a local nursing home

> and is

> serving punch and cookies to the residents. She dog sits for

> neighbors to earn

> her own spending money and shops just like her mother!

>

> We've spent countless hours with different doctors, therapists and

> specialists looking for answers and treatments and thousands of out of

> pocket dollars

> paying for things not covered by insurance. I can't really tell you

> if any of

> it is what really made her life easier or if it was a waste of money.

> We've

> watched her grow up into a teenager and she's gone through puberty

> just fine. I

> think it may have helped her socially. Her grades are not the best,

> but she

> tries really hard. She has her own way of studying that works for her

> and

> she does her homework immediately after school. She never turns in

> her homework

> late. She likes the structure of her school (very regimented) and

> likes

> knowing that things stay the same at school. She adjusts to change

> more easily

> now and understands the explanation for the changes.

>

> We never looked into chelating Mercury, but sometimes I think we

> should look

> into it for health reasons. She does take the Fish Oil capsules,

> vitamin b-6,

> vitamin C and a multivitamin. She also takes Pepcid Ac for her milk

> and

> wheat allergy because her stomach is very acidic. Other than that,

> the other meds

> we've tried never worked, like Ritalin. She was on something to help

> her

> sleep at night, but that passed after she started going to school, and

> she sleeps

> better than her little sister. She now sleeps in on the weekends and

> vacations. Just like a teenager.

>

> This morning it's just the two of us at home. Everyone else is either

> working or spent the night at a friends house, so we are going in

> search of Big

> Lots, which we saw on tv recently, and have got to go look at

> bargains. Like I

> said, she likes to shop!

>

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