Justin's Issues

I know it's been a long time since I wrote about Justin's issues so I am going to try to bring you up to date. We went to speech therapy for 5 or 6 weeks before we moved, with a lady at Ochnser. She was super! Had lots of toys and was able to engage him well. When he was evaluated at 2 yrs 9 months, he tested for speech at a less than two year old level. He did very well in speech but it is hard to say if he progressed a lot because we didn't continue when we got up here (insurance doesn't cover speech unless you've had a stroke here). So I need to look into the state-run program for Iowa.

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These are the things I've noticed since he's started the remedy-

He's now more OK with ruffling his hair. The chiropractor adjusted him today and then tickled him on the back of the neck and he actually laughed!

He used to swing, and swing, and swing. Now he moves on to another activity.

Crash Course in Homeopathy

Justin is doing so much better! The homeopathic dose wore off around Sunday night, after a week, so we redosed him last night. It is amazing the changes I have been seeing- I didn't realize what I've been missing all this time, and the Out of Sync Child helped me put my finger on it.

As far as homeopathy here's how it works... Homeopathy is based on the principle that like cures like. Allopathic medicine is based on suppression of symptoms. Say you have congestive heart failure. You go to the doc, he says, Ok, here are your problems, take these four drugs. The problem with allopathic medicine is that it suppresses symptoms, and sometimes symptoms come out later in other systems. For example, many kids with exzema (which is usually an expression of food allergies) are treated with topical creams, which suppresses the symptoms in a superficial system, the skin. Usually any eruption on the skin is the body getting rid of toxins. Many of these children develop asthma a few months or years later, because the symptoms have been suppressed, and go deeper into the body, according to homeopaths.

Justin Updates

Oh Justin, Justin, Justin, he is a mess. Not only is he two but we still think he might be autistic. It is so strange- he did well after the tubes, but they were somewhat of a band-aid to help the fluid drain. We still haven't figured out what is making the fluid build up in the first place. If it is dairy, then that is a real problem. I know dairy is not the best source of calcium, but our flirtations with the casein free diet don't go well, and it delays his teeth coming in. His two year molars have been coming in since last year, seriously.

It's hard to say why I think he's autistic, but here's an excerpt from an email I sent to another mom, that might explain it...