Would Parents Wish to Raise money for their Children's Biomedical Treatme...

[Guest guest]

We had discussed ways that the National Autism Association could help with

this and I haven't forgotten. We've got so much going on with Autism One right

now but as soon as that's over, we'll be able to concentrate on how to help.

It's always going to be difficult to give money to some families and not

others. Everyone is so deserving.

I'm brainstorming here and would love to get some feedback. Maybe a way to

make this happen would be if families could do a fundraiser for NAA. We could in

turn pay for medical costs for their family member (based on what is raised).

This way it encourages your community to help because they know it'll help

someone locally and nationally, they get a tax write-off, NAA gets funding for

autism research, and it appears everyone wins.

There are tons of easy fundraisers anyone can do. Even a car wash can bring

in enough money to help. Since we're not going to get help from anyone else,

let's try to find a way to help ourselves. If anyone has ideas, please let us

know.

Jo Pike

National Autism Association

Phone: 877-NAA-AUTISM

Email: Jo@...

http://nationalautismassociation.org/

In a message dated 5/22/2004 6:09:11 PM Eastern Standard Time,

DMHelmick1@... writes:

Would Parents Wish to Raise money for their

Children's Biomedical Treatments?

Parents who have their children on biomedical treatments such as the Gluten

Free/Casein Free (GFCF) and or Specific Carbohydrate Diet (SCD), Organic foods,

and vitamin supplements are finding great expense at keeping the regimen

going. For example, my son is on both the GFCF and SCD diets which are all

organic and 9 different Vitamin supplements including digestive enzymes. None

of

these costs are covered by insurance or by county services. Initial lab testing

recommended by the DAN protocol are also not covered as is the Doctor's visit

for the diagnosis of autism.

With the cost of the diet and vitamin supplementation most parents are living

from paycheck to paycheck with little or none to save, I personally know a

friend who had taken a second mortgage on her house because of the cost of

dietary and other therapies. There are even some parents who can't even take

the

first steps because of the cost. What is a parent to do?

I vote that there should be some sort of assistance for parents regarding the

biomedical treatment therapies. Some sort of fund raiser that can be held

for the purpose of helping parents with Biomedical Therapies.

Are there any funds out there for this purpose? I haven't heard yet. I

think that this should be an issue that is considered a legitimate fundraiser.

What do you think?

I may be pushing a button with this, but this is a real need.

[Guest guest]

Let's assume that we can smash the fraud-mongering dictatorship of the

CDC, AAP, and IOM.

(A hopeful notion indeed.)

Assume a writer were hired to portray the usefulness of biomedical

interventions. I haven't been able to get DAN-oriented clinicians or

another other true-believers' discipleships' physicians to write

articles for publication. We note that Derrick Lonsdale is a rare

exception -- having published about TTFD, arsenic excretion (mechanism

unknown), and child improvement. Overall, the lesson is that clinicians

- regardless of their biomed religious-like faith (DAN!, Cutler, Kane,

whatever) aren't writing such articles for publication.

Alternative: hire one or several of the autism friendly, biomed

respected news reporters to write a major article (investigative

journalism at its best). Such an article might help turn the tide of

public opinion away from the funds-lock enforced as " minimize environ

concerns, preach the gospel of must be genetic " . If and as public

opinion is shifted, the society might come to realize that iatrogenic

autism is as much an epidemic as was pink disease.

And let's be hopeful, the insights of Semmelweiss were suppressed for

decades, but that enforcement of habit and doctrine (whereby hand

washing was disparaged) occurred before the internet.

Caution: we must be careful not to remain in the posture of sharing

emails that amount to " preaching to the choir " . We are challenged to

break the media/pharco/CDC/AAP/IOM lock on public consciousness.

If we succeed, then tax moneys ought pay for healing the hundreds of

thousands of iatrogenically injured children.

JPiker@... wrote:

>We had discussed ways that the National Autism Association could help with

>this and I haven't forgotten. We've got so much going on with Autism One right

>now but as soon as that's over, we'll be able to concentrate on how to help.

>

>It's always going to be difficult to give money to some families and not

>others. Everyone is so deserving.

>

>I'm brainstorming here and would love to get some feedback. Maybe a way to

>make this happen would be if families could do a fundraiser for NAA. We could

in

>turn pay for medical costs for their family member (based on what is raised).

>This way it encourages your community to help because they know it'll help

>someone locally and nationally, they get a tax write-off, NAA gets funding for

>autism research, and it appears everyone wins.

>

>There are tons of easy fundraisers anyone can do. Even a car wash can bring

>in enough money to help. Since we're not going to get help from anyone else,

>let's try to find a way to help ourselves. If anyone has ideas, please let us

>know.

>

>Jo Pike

>National Autism Association

>Phone: 877-NAA-AUTISM

>Email: Jo@...

>http://nationalautismassociation.org/

>

>In a message dated 5/22/2004 6:09:11 PM Eastern Standard Time,

>DMHelmick1@... writes:

>Would Parents Wish to Raise money for their

>Children's Biomedical Treatments?

>

>

>Parents who have their children on biomedical treatments such as the Gluten

>Free/Casein Free (GFCF) and or Specific Carbohydrate Diet (SCD), Organic foods,

>and vitamin supplements are finding great expense at keeping the regimen

>going. For example, my son is on both the GFCF and SCD diets which are all

>organic and 9 different Vitamin supplements including digestive enzymes. None

of

>these costs are covered by insurance or by county services. Initial lab

testing

>recommended by the DAN protocol are also not covered as is the Doctor's visit

>for the diagnosis of autism.

>

>With the cost of the diet and vitamin supplementation most parents are living

>from paycheck to paycheck with little or none to save, I personally know a

>friend who had taken a second mortgage on her house because of the cost of

>dietary and other therapies. There are even some parents who can't even take

the

>first steps because of the cost. What is a parent to do?

>

>I vote that there should be some sort of assistance for parents regarding the

>biomedical treatment therapies. Some sort of fund raiser that can be held

>for the purpose of helping parents with Biomedical Therapies.

>

>Are there any funds out there for this purpose? I haven't heard yet. I

>think that this should be an issue that is considered a legitimate fundraiser.

>What do you think?

>I may be pushing a button with this, but this is a real need.

>

>

>