chelation progress report from Leah (reposted with permission)

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dear list, Below is the text of a post by Leah, which she

sent to another list (autisminterventionsocal). I asked her

if she could send this, or something similar, to the

autism treatment list so I could put it in love_letters.

(IT IS AWESOME!) Leah asked me to go ahead and repost it.

So, here it is. The only thing I have changed, is that I deleted

the text she was responding to (from someone else). Enjoy!

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From: " Valadez " <valadez4@s...>

Date: Mon Dec 31, 2001 8:24 am

Subject: Re: [autisminterventionsocal] chelation

Hi LIsa,

We have been chelating our son for a year now, I have to say it was

one of the best things we

have ever done, besides dietary changes and ABA. Honestly, we have seen

bumpy roads along the way.

But over all the good out ways the bad and I must say our son is a

different child then even a year ago.

Melt downs are down to a minimum, and basically almost gone, he has become

more patient and does not

have to have his way on the spot, he understands life better over all, and

asks lots of appropriate questions

concering emotions and everything in general about life. His language has

grown in leaps and bounds, his

sense of humor is wonderful, kidding and joking, he has personality that is

shining through, and you see

both his fathers traits and mine. We are so blessed by it all.

He understands being good and bad, even when others are not being honest

versus dishonest. He enjoys

life more, he is happier, and I do not wake up anymore wondering what the

day will hold. The bipolar

behavior has subsided tremendously. His independance has grown almost over

night. He is quick to make

right responses in different situations.

Although he is still in a regular ed class, not much has changed in that

area, he still needs to be kept on

task, but he has gotten nicer to the children and more tolerant of his

aides, and understands why they are

there. He will tell me at times that someone talked to him and he did not

want to talk back, or he wanted

to tell them to shut up, or they are stupid (these are things he has picked

up from children that are mean

to him) but he tells me even though he felt like it he didn't, so he is

able to make more appropriate

decisions for himself.

We have not done all the testing involved, we spend so much on supplements

and dietary things, that the

tests because some could be not done at the right time, such as urine and

stool, I hate to pay for hit and

miss, in other words you may go out of your way to do a urine or a stool,

and what was going to come out

may have come out the day before, so they are not exactly reliable, but

parents who have gotten good

test results are so pleased to know that metals are coming out. We do have

regular CBC's done to keep

an eye on the blood count and liver and kidneys to make sure the immune

system is still doing what it is

suppose to. I make occasional doctor appointments and our doctor can see

the differance although he

himself does not understand it all.I have to say our son has also been so

healthy, his colds last a few

days, antibiotics our almost a thing of the past for us. We have seen

behaviors that are most likely caused

by yeast and parasites, which are aggrevated by the movement of metals as

they move out of the body,

but with all the help there is on the internet on different groups we seem

to get through it all with posiive

rewards. is older so he is not going as fast as some of the younger

ones that have almost been

recovered. All children are going at a different pace, almost no 2 alike

through the chelation process, but it

is easier to do then people think. I have to say though, when we first

started to do it I thought I had made

the biggest mistake of my life, we saw every old behavior that we had seen

through the years, but now with

langauge, I went out in the garage and sobbed thinking I had done the worst

thing in the world, but I now

realize that as the metals were moving that this is normal, and it is OK,

if it is making our little ones well.

We did have a hair test when he was 3, that showed lots of mercury and

other toxic things high, then we

had a hair test almost a year ago that showed different, but all that

showed us was that the metals had

gone deeper into the tissue of the body organs and brain. For us there was

no option, we have to get the

poison toxic metals out of our son, and we are glad we have made the

decision, and I think just to give you

some comfort, the good has outwayed the bad for most of the children, lots

of positives and lots of parents

to cheer you on in good times and bad. Good luck in your decision, I have

to say again, our son is a

different person, just more normal over all. And no he is not recovered but

well on his way to a better life

then I would have imagined even a year ago, I'll give you a perfect

example, just now he was outside in the

front playing with a remote control car, we have the third part of our

garage converted into a room for our

cats, he had let the cats out so they could go outside for a while also, he

just came in he let me know he

had closed the garage, and he had put the cats back in thier room before he

closed the garage door so

they would not get hurt. Now if you look back at my original post this past

year on the site, I like to

remember back to when was 4 and very severe, the only thing he didn't

do was smear fecal matter

and eat dirt. He was non verbal, still in diapers, ate baby food, drank a

bottle tantrumed all day and was

horrified!!!!!!! of the whole world, literally everyone and everything,

self injurious, and stimmed all day. He

looked retarded with his little crossed eye, and I never thought I would

be able to look back years from

now and be relieved that those years have passed, but they have , and

he has come far, I don't know

how much more he will recover but I will never stop praying, and I will

continue to chelate until I feel with

have gotten everything out of the body that was never ment to be their. My

sister has a boyfriend that is a

doctor, I love to talk to him, he seems to think that if we get the metals

out he sees not reason why

recovery would not be possible, he says the body and brain have the

ability to regenerate, and children

bounce back wonderfully. Almost like some stroke patients, the ony

differance is a stroke patient has

something to go back to, most of these children did not have much before

the original insult to their

system, so they have to make up for lost time and have alot to learn

because they missed so many

development stages,Leah