McMillan Clan

From a Mother Warrior: How Not to catch Autism

I have learned my lesson, and I possibly saved my daughter from getting Autism. Isaac has Autism, and I have learned by making mistakes what not to do, and what to do.

1. Don't get immunizations. Call me crazy, but NO one needs aluminum, dead chicken, and cows cells, and ONLY God knows what else injected into them. Eat organic if you can. Give your family organic food.

2. Eat as fresh a diet as you can when it comes to vegetable, and fruits. Stay away from processed foods.

3. Don't give your baby cheerios. I did. I gave Isaac cheerios. I couldn't understand why he was sneezing so much green stuff out of his nose. It was because of the wheat. This was the start of his brain cloud.

4. If there is eczema on your baby, you have a food allergy. Find out what allergy it is, and eliminate the food.

5. Don't give your baby Tylenol if you have to immunize. Tylenol lowers the immune system, increasing chances of immune compromise. This is what happened to Isaac. 

6. Antibiotics kill all flora in the gut. Bad bacteria is killed, but so is the good. Killing the good bacteria is not good.

7. Give your baby yogurt. The live bacteria cultures help break down food and aid in digestion.

8. Don't start the baby too early on table food. Food allergies can occur when the baby is not ready for food.

9. Keep the bowels moving. This aids in eliminating toxins.

10. Listen to your instinct as a parent. Keep fighting for your child. Don't give up.

I am not a Dr. Just a Mom, and I hope this can help others.

His Obsessions

Isaac seems to be fixed on certain activities that make him laugh hysterically. I don't know if his brain is unlocking information or if he just thinks it's funny, or if it's his doped up mind acting out. He has been opening and shutting doors. He loves it, he laughs when he opens and shuts. He also likes to spin. If you saw him spinning you would think he was a figure skater. He has this move down so well....I don't think anyone on the family can copy it.

He loves water. He has learned how to turn on the water. If you can't catch him in time, he will go upstairs. If there aren't any locks on any of the doors, he can get it. He turns on the bathtub water in my bathroom, and jumps in. Clothes and ALL. He is still wearing shoes. He has no sense of what Hot and Cold are. He loves the water so much.

The girls have been doing quite a bit of changing clothes for me.- for Isaac.

Another thing that he does it ...he likes to go headfirst down the stairs. he does this upside down. For this reason, we have put up a gate that he just keeps on climbing. Did I mention that he is a climber...yeah he could climb anything if we let him. 

God has truly blessed us with a wonderful baby boy. When he was diagnosed with Autism ( it was the one thing in the world I did NOT Want him to be diagnosed with) I felt so sad for him...thinking that he would never get to experience what other kids experience, he would never lead a normal life. Now he is laughing, and smiling appropriately. There is a look in his eyes, and I can see that he understands more than I think he does. I use to think that I would have to do everything for him, but a couple of moms gave me some good advice.... to treat him, and talk to him like all the other kids. It has helped.  I fell like he is a boy know (he always was) but I see him differently. I don't see him as a zombie or a child that can't do much. He is my son, I love him, and I am fighting for him to get better. 

For now, he continues his obsessions, and I am grateful that he has them. I love my Isaac so much.

Autism and the military health care system

If you are at all involved with the military and have their health care, and you have a child that has any form of autism, and needs treatments...here are some simple steps to avoid confusion and heartbreak:

1. Change your insurance from Tricare Prime, to Tricare Standard. This is the ONLY way you will get adequate care for your child. This is only if you want to see your child recover from allergy based Autism, and other cases like it that are on the spectrum of ASD.

This is the first step, and this is the first thing that I will be doing TOMORROW!

It cost us 150 dollars for the deductible, but it will be worth it because we will not have to hassle with military doctors over referrals, and what we deem care for our child.

I have been so discouraged and downright mad about Tricare and just being prime because it was "free"- but I realize if we want to do anything to help him get better medically, this is what we have to do. We don't have money to be going to a DAN Doctor that costs about 500 dollars and doesn't take any form of insurance. We are going to see Dr. Arnold Brenner who is about 90 minutes away in Maryland. He takes Tricare Standard, and this is one of the main reasons why we switched.

The visit will cost about 50 dollars plus some basic labs that the military refused to do, or were not able to perform. I am so looking forward to a doctor that knows what he is doing. I am glad that we are going to see him because he is getting up at the age where he might retire soon.

Saturday afternoon Mike and I watched some conference videos on the Autism Research Institute's Website.

The Conference Videos that we watched explain many things that we did not know. I encourage ANY one to watch them so you can find out more about treatment. I will be blogging more about this, and when Isaac will be going through all the testing and treatment. I can't wait for Isaac to talk. I am so happy for him. There was a lot more information is the 2008 Conference than the San Diego one.

Most regular family practice pediatricians will not even treat autism like the DAN doctors do because the some things they do are not FDA Approved. I will still be able to get insurance coverage even though Dr. Brenner is a Dan doctor because we will be paying the Co- Pay.

A new type of Autism

My husband and I have been mulling over the same thing independently. What if this Autism, is not the classic autism, but it is something else entirely different? Sure it has many of the same characteristics as the "old time autism" but so many kids are acquiring this....it has to be something different, since they can be "cured" right?

 I mean no one is going to say ...."yep they have autism"...and then turn around and say....."Wow, it looks like they have been cured!"   (when they have successfully been healed with biomedical) ----no one ever says that.... In fact many just say..." Oh...He or she was MISDIAGNOSED"

So what if this "New Autism"...( I love parenthesis and quotation marks) is an illness brought on by what we eat, by a compromise of our immune system thru environmental toxins, vaccines, and viruses. Somebody please tell me it has already been discovered, and there is information about there on the web....cause I can't seem to find it.

Some kids are just allergic to wheat and eggs, and milk...just like my son. These allergies create such inflammation and disruption that the body can't function...it gets clogged up with junk... from eating too much mac and cheese, and crackers, and cereal, and processed junk that no good thing can help fight the body. Our own diets have limited us from doing what our parents and grandparents can normally do, or did normally do. There was a reason they took castor oil, and ate their vegetables.

I am taking the blame for this one. I know I could have done a lot more healthy things while I was pregnant. I didn't take my vitamins cause they made me sick. I didn't smoke, and didn't drink. I could have learned about metal toxicity and vaccine dangers to newborns, but I trusted the system, and look what happened.

I can honestly say I don't trust the system now, and I am glad for that. I trust God to get me and my family and Isaac through this mire of autism quagmire and gloppity glop. I have said before and I will type it again.... I am glad that he is labeled autistic so that I can get him what he needs...so he will no longer be autistic.....

"YES VIRGINIA, THERE IS A CURE FOR MY SON'S AUTISM!"

It makes sense to me.....

plain jane + anti vaccine = ME, healthy family and lots to accomplish

I am a plain jane. I don't wear make up, although I should to hide my roasacea, but I have become increasingly aware of the chemicals that we place on and in our bodies. Since My dad died from cancer last year, I have seen what damage can come from consuming too much of cigarettes, of chemicals, of anything that is harmful really. I am anti vaccine because I don't think that vaccines are helping. Yes, I am a conspiracy theorist. I believe that vaccines hold junk in it that the U.N. is lovingly going to hold up against all of us so that we are all going to inoculated one day and have fried autistic brains. The day will come. It will make a good story line.......maybe I should write a book about it, if there isn't one already.

I switched from a regular deodorant (with contains alum ) to an organic one. I switched from regular toothpaste to organic.

I am looking into organic shampoo/conditioner/soap now for everyone in the family. I an def. not a tree hugger, although I like nature. I like meat, and I like animals. I think we should use natural items more, and  I believe in going to the thrift store and not buying new things that only generate new products on the shelves. I don't like having to buy thing all the time, when there are perfectly good used items that I can obtain. I believe in recycling,but haven't had time to do it extensively.

I believe I am toxic (with my amalgams) and I need to chelate...but for now since I can think on my own, the focus is more on my non thinking son, and his treatment.

If I could find an organic make up I would, but I really think that God wants us to forgo the makeup, and forgo the deodorant. Sweating is a process that is natural and actually beneficial to the body. Stinking from the sweat is just a product of our nature. I bet before Eve and Adam's sin they didn't stink. I think the stink is always going to be around to remind us that we are filthy human beings.

But in today's society is it kosher to stink? Is it acceptable to be stinky? No, not really...this is why I wear the organic stuff.

If I could go ALL NATURAL on everything I would, but for now, I am only doing the small things that mean the most. I don't want to add any more stress.

I have eliminated tap water from our drinking and most cooking. We use a brita filter for everything. Sweet Tea was previously made with tap water, but not anymore.

I am going to slowly eliminate sweet tea and incorporate only drinking water in the family...but it is going to be  a slow process. 

No more cans...we are saying goodbye to canned foods....the aluminum is not healthy, and we are going for a fresher, menu plan.

No more processed foods...like mac n cheese....the powdered stuff has MSG which is a big NO NO, and the gluten is not good for Isaac.

I am going to learn how to make gluten free bread in the bread machine. I would also like to research soaking my own grain ...somehow it helps break down something to be able to digest easier, and I think this would be beneficial to Isaac. I would also like to research fermented foods. These foods are supposed to help, but I have conflicting information, perhaps it is misinformation...but I must take  a closer look. I think fermented foods would be good, but I have also heard that anything rotting is not good...hmmm.......

So we have a lot to do, a lot to do....and I have plenty of time, since I am not putting on amy make-up!

It just makes sense

An autistic child can not be helped with ABA or other therapies until they get their "insides fixed"

Sure, it will help to an extent, but nothing will ever stick until they help the body to recover. The Autism that my son has is not the same autism that many mentally retarded people have. The autism that my son has can be cured, it can be put in remission. I believe this hope because it is what keeps me going. If there is a potential to get them better why not help, at any rate, in any way, why not?

To get the insides of an autistic child fixed you need to

1. Get An IG Panel done. This can be done at allergist, or at a lab that does this test.

2. Get a 24 hour urine test done to see what the child has in the system/ and what they are getting rid of.

3. Get a hair test done for detecting metals. If there are metals, chelation might be an option.

4. Look up the lot number on the vaccines and find out what the ingredients are.

5. Go to ABCHomeopathy.com and find out what remedies you can get for your child

6. Visit a DAN Doctor. We go to Dr. Brenner, he is only 1 and a half hours away, and all we will have to pay after our deductible is about 50 dollars for the visit. 

These of course don't have to go in order. I have also watched the autism conference at autism.com and it has been very informative. I am so surprised that many people think that autism can not be recovered. Why not?

Many kids have recovered.

Some say they never had autism. Just watch my son has autism, and he will change your mind. God is on our side, who can be against us?

If there is hope for an autistic child, don't scoff. Provide hope, provide prayers, provide support.

My sister and metals

My sister has recently been having health problems. She and the doctors couldn't figure out what was wrong with her. She was having MS like symptoms...and she was dreading each day that passed....she was having pain everywhere, and her despair was constant. She just told me yesterday that she has a tetanus shot in March....and that is exactly the time that she started getting ill.....coincidence?

No. I believe that if we put something like vaccines in our body purposefully, we are defying God and saying we need this to be healthy..........I don't think that it is healthy to inoculate oneself, or another with "strange medicine" Sorry, this is the way I feel about it, and I have good reason. My son has autism. He is marred by vaccines. My girls are fine, and there is no gene detection from my son that would day he has a mitochondrial issue with his genes.

She (my sister) just saw a wellness doctor, and told her what her problem was..... it was arsenic. She did this test by doing a stress test, and having my sister hold something that contained arsenic. My sister showed a reaction to this. Well, call me crazy for mentioning this, but really I think it works. Something so simple as this could detect what is in the body. Have you heard that canines can detect cancer by scent? It's the same thing with this method. Our own bodies know when we are around something that we can't tolerate.

SO I was talking to my sister and she and I have found a website called abchomeopathy.com I like this sister because it can tell you what symptoms you have and what remedy you need. This site replaces the homeopathic doctor which can run about 200 dollars an hour. SO we found her remedy, and she is going to get started by herself on taking this. The remedy will not hurt her....if it doesn't work, then she will try something else. I believe ti will work. Homeopathic medicine is "like treating like"- almost like what a vaccine does...but without all the additives.

 I strongly believe that the pharmaceutical companies have no business filling vaccines with the junk that they do. I will never vaccinate my kids again. It's just not safe. If the CDC, or whoever makes the vaccines would look again, and perhaps look into homeopathic (which has little or no side effects) then I will be interested.

SO my sister is going to be treated, I will let you know how it goes. Oh yeah, the remedy costs about 7 dollars for one bottle. Typically she will need more than one bottle, but it is still much less expensive than trying to get the metals out a much crueler way. Homeopathy is very gentle to the body. Homeopathy is one way I am looking into helping Isaac, but of course I am no homeopath and I would have to pay the feed which I do not have. Who knows maybe one day I can become a homeopath.

An interesting conversation

Well, I just had a very interesting conversation with Isaac's ABA tutor. She has a degree in neuro something, so I began to spill everything about Isaac's chriari diagnosis and his autism, and of course what she thought of the vaccine link, and she was 100 percent against any indication of vaccines. I have not been in the research field long to know when I am on to something. I am also not an expert but it seems pretty obvious that vaccines can cause something.....anyway she mentioned that you wouldn't have a problem with vaccines unless you re allergic to eggs..... guess what? Isaac is allergic to eggs.

TYpically you will not know that your child ais allergic to anything that is in the vaccines because kids don't get allergy testing when they a re born, and most doctors refuse to get the testing done for kids under three because they say that sometimes you get a false positive....

We were ina discussion, I mentioned that Isaac was going to be seeing a DAN doctor and that he was going to be getting the b12 shots, and other things. She did not sound very happy. I think she is dead set on any thinking about Autism being reversible. I hope to show here ( thru Isaac and his recovery) that Autism is reversible, treatable, and can be eradicated.....

I hope for all those out there that Isaac will be able to help others by his on going through biomedical treatment. I believe that He will be better....soon.

Isaac is in there...

Isaac can talk, he can think, he can do what other kids his age can do, but he hasn't. He is trapped. Trapped in side of a body that will not cooperate because of Yeast, (it's always a sign of sin in the bible) and because he was vaccinated, and his immune system was compromised. It's sad that I had to be welcomed to the autism community because MY child has autism. It's even sadder that autism is a disease that can easily be treated, yet manly doctors don't follow thru, and insurance companies don't cover the necessary protocol because it's not "FDA approved"-

I wish I was a scientist so I could scream out to those working at the CDC and at the WHITE HOUSE, and everywhere else that bashes anti vaccine families.

The whole reason why we have autism IS because of Vaccines. It's that simple. I am no scientist, but I can put common sense in it's place and tell you it is because of vaccines.

People will tell you it's not so that there will not be a hysteria of individuals not vaccinating. Vaccines are not trusting in God. ALl sickness happens for a reason. Call me crazy, but I would rather not have a vaccine that hurts me or my kids. If there is even an inkling of a chance that we can have side effects, why risk it?

anyway, as I was saying today I saw Isaac thinking. At his speech session he was actually thinking about making a decision. The speech therapist was giving hima choice of bubbles or a massager. She has a machine called a BIG MACK which was a huge button... and it was a sound relater that played back the word "bubbles" when you pushed the big button.  She also had a BIG MACK for "massager" but he wanted the "bubble- so he kept pushing it. He got the bubbles blown in his direction. I was happy and of course crying that I could actually see some kind og cognition coming out of him. He is getting better.

I am sure that I will be Blown away next month when he starts the biomedical protocol.

God has a reason for this autism.... it's traps our children so that they can not think on their own...of course it goes along with us all being under the curse .... 

From the video that I posted earlier about inflammation, I really believe this to be true. I gave isaac Cheerios at a very young age, and I didn't see the signs of allergies. He was allergic to the wheat but I kept on giving it to him and this is one of the reason's he has brain fog. He has always had it.  He was given table food at an early age, and I thought it was ok. There are many regrets that I have because of what I gave him.... i thought that it was all ok....but in reality none of it was safe. PLain old tap water is not safe, and I gave this to him in his formula......it was no doubt loaded with harmful substances that his body could not eliminate because his immune system was already compromised.

His chiari malformation seems to have disappeared, but I have to get a second opinion. The military says that it is not there now, but I don't know. Civilians caught it, and I think his inflammation was down so much that it was not showing up, or even that his inflammation was so high when he was diagnosed that it presented itself as chiari and not just inflammation. That would be a nice prediction but of course I am not a doctor.

It is amazing what just one thing can do to your brain and just one substance can help you. To get the inflammation down I am going to try a new biomedical but we have to wait till after the DAN visit a week from this Friday. Until then I will be working with my baby boy to get him to thinking.

On a sad note my uncle tony is having a biospsy today. His brother ( my dad) dies last year from lung cancer, and now it appears that he might be dealing with the same thing. If you pray at all, please remember tony and becky eason in your prayers.

The ABA tutor is coming so I have to go wake up Isaac.

In the land of Oz, he is speaking biomedical language