Meaning of Recovery

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Just thought I'd share with this list what I just posted on another list. In the

thread a mom posted her meaning of recovery as being " indistinguishble " & free

from all special diets & supplements. Just thought I'd share my reply as it

mentions a couple of benchmark moments that we've had with our son recently.

Copy of my post:

Your recovery bar is higher than I'll ever want to go with eatting the same food

that the other kids eat & no supplements...I've learned to much over the last 6

years to EVER want to go back to the poor Standard American Diet (SAD) for

anyone in my family, ASD or not. My NT daugther (6 years recovered Asthmatic)

doesn't go there either! With this statement you are lumping good nutrition &

true food allergins (which many NT children have...be it some do not recognise

they have allergies with all their rx nebulizers, drugs...not to mention the IBS

symptoms that aren't being dealt with....read Healing The New Childhood

Epidemics by Dr Bock for more " Recovery " stories...it's not just ASD!). For

immune/viral/bacterial support my NT daughter (whose an excellent student &

friend to many) also gets daily maitenence doses of LDM-100, fish oil, minerals

like cal/mag & a really good multi-vitamins for better overall health). I also

do low sugar, high nutrition like smoothies & good diet (unlike the high sugar,

dyes, artificial crap that the neighbor & school kids around us do). We have not

been sick all year (unlike the neighbor kids).

There are several " indistinguishble " kids in our WA group. As our kids play

together at the playground no one can tell they are recovering ASD's...others

are shocked when we've mentioned it....it has Many Times opened up the doors to

tell what we are doing. None of us parents will ever go back to the old SAD diet

who are always hauling their kids to the docs w/ear infections, etc, etc...with

such poor immune systems.

More importantly than diet, or for me even than recovery itself is my sons

overall health is better....he's healthier for a longer, better life. His

recovery is just coming naturally with his better health.

Heidi I concure completely, cure...they've been hit by a bus immune wise. I'll

take recovery....even more I'm reaching for his better health!!!

We're not at recovery yet...close...but still working on things...doc figures

2/3 of the way up this huge ice-burg. I so strove to be recovered at first, and

hoped I'd be there by now....but in learning all I've learned in this last 6

years of recovery I've changed....now I also want better health for where he is

as an individual...with the nutrition his body needs to be healthier for a

life-time.

Just in this last month my son (11yo-5th grade) in a general ed school/class

received a " Responsibility " award in front of the whole school (600+ students +

lots of parents). He got up when his name was called, shook the principals hand,

and walked down the isle to stand with his award with the other students

receiving their awards. He also that same day did a song with the other 5th

grade students including the motions at the assembly (a few years ago he would

not even go into music class because it was to loud). On top of that when the

principal was asking what the next months character trait " considerate " means he

raised his hand, was called on & answered....brought tears to me & many other

teachers/friends that have seen his progress....the friend standing next to me

leaned over and whispered " that's YOUR son " then smiled. He's behind in some

subjects but he's reading at grade level now (UW docs told me 6 years ago he

would probably never read) & with the addition of the

alkalinized/micro-clustered/ionized water last fall he's brought his vocab &

reading comprehension (gen ed/not modified) from a C- to a B+....he's also one

of the best spellers in his class, regularly getting 100%. He's playing kick

ball with the other kids & was so proud he wrote about the goal he made causing

his team to win last week. He may not be " recovered " yet...but I'll take the

pure joy in all of his improvements (even on his special diet & supplements).

Just my 2 cents....

Rita