We have been doing biomedical procedures for Matthew for close to 4 years now! Wow, it doesn’t seem possible. I guess time does fly when you are having fun. Or at least when you are chronically sleep deprived. But it really can be a very confusing process. Often you feel pulled in different directions. You want to pick those interventions that you think will work, but you don’t want to waste time and money, plus you don’t want to miss out on choosing the correct intervention. But you can’t do everything. Even if you had all the money in the world, which you don’t, these things all take time. Some take A LOT of time.
I recently saw a wall photo on Facebook that really sums up autism interventions. It was a huge maze with a sign saying “Autism Interventions”. You do feel as if you are walking into a huge maze with no road maps and no help. You often wonder if there really is a way out to the other side, or is it merely a cruel exercise to drive you mad.
I know I feel that way often. Even with all the amazing gains Matthew has made, and he has made very wonderful gains, I often wonder if I’m on the right track. We have recently put all our eggs in one basket. It is the Andy Cutler (AC) Chelation, or frequent, low dose chelation, basket. After years of diets and supplements, which have been wonderful and brought about amazing results, my husband and I wanted more. We want to truly heal Matthew. We have seen this health in small glimpses here and there by using this supplement or that diet, but we don’t want glimpses. We want Matthew.
In the biomedical community there seems to be a few different camps, those that believe their kids have viruses that must be treated, those that feel it is inflammation, some think it is heavy metals, other gut disbiosis. Really most of us think our kids have all or most of these, but often it comes down to treating the one or two underlying disorder. We have treated gut disbiosis and inflammation. We have not looked at viruses or parasites. But more importantly we had not treated for heavy metals. So now we are. I wonder if we should be trying low dose naltrexone or valtrex. Should we be doing acupuncture or some other healing modality. But in reality, I secretly believe this may be the key. It is probably a two year process, so if I’m wrong I’ve wasted a lot of time. At least it is cheap.
That maze never gets any easier and no matter what you read or who you meet, your still in there all alone. Good luck and a straight course!
Stay well.
