Autism Recovery, Coming out on the other side

"Her readings now are basically showing more like a typical kid with allergies" -MC

That was the moment t I lost it. We have been fighting now for almost five years , sacrificing everything literally, in order to help my daughter recover and heal. The past 3 years we have seen Mary Coyle of The Real Child Center utilizing homotoxicology as part of her protocol of non-invasive detoxification in conjunction with biomedical/dietary treatments. My daughter's Health has done a 360! We have been fighting for 3 years to regulate her thyroid which at the very beginning was very extremely sluggish. Yesterday, being told by Mary that she's never seen a thyroid reading so good and have such a remarkable comeback and then telling me that her readings are looking more like a typical kid with allergies..... I CANNOT even express my thought process at that very moment. I just started crying happy tears. Thinking about how far she had come, about a recent conversation I had with my husband about  "whats next" or IF there is "anything else we can do or is that it?" then becoming so sad because of the reality that we simply might not have any more options left. Going from feeling helpless to OMG WTF did she just say?!Biologically she is just about HEALED?! So many thoughts ran through my head and I was just overjoyed to hear that at least her body and her health just might make a full comeback. She will always have autoimmune/mitochondrial disorders and food/ environmental allergies but in the best health that she can reach for her personal conditions. She was SO SICK for SO LONG because NO treatments were ever tried nor done due to the FAILURE of our pediatricians and so called specialists. Just about 9 years she suffered, but I KNEW something was wrong and had to push forward despite what they said (Autism was a social/brain disorder) and found a whole new world of doctors and practitioners whom COULD help me heal my child because they UNDERSTAND that Autism is MEDICAL and these people who help do exist. MAPS ( Medical Academy Pediatrics Special Needs) , Holistic, homeopathic practitioners ,chiropractors and wellness centers are who you see and where you go to find the people who can help. GET TO THEM , they can help guide you! 

Although Bella's health has recovered tremendously, she will always have to follow a certain diet, take her supplements and do other daily treatments to KEEP her health. Its Still going to remain a challenge but its so GOOD to hear that all that we sacrificed and all that we have done WORKED and EFFECTIVELY. KNOWING she will now be OK and STABLE IS Recovery in my eyes. Its HER Recovery. Sabrina still has very prevalent brain damage. She has prevalent learning disabilities, although she understands everything thats going on around her, and conversations she hears and is very "present" now, she is still vulnerable and could easily be taken advantage of. She can be easily manipulated, she has NO common sense but she has shown remarkable improvement to being more aware of her surroundings. She will not elope anymore, she may start to walk ahead or wander alillte but nothing like the scary situations we had gone through when she was little, blocked and lost. She can read 3rd grade level and academically 2-3rd grade which has been steady past 4 years. We work on retention of the skills shes already learned as well as strive and try to acquire new ones. Homeschooling has definitely helped in that area as to what can work on, whatever, whenever, on HER time, at her pace, in the style that best fits her learning abilities (Which is HANDS ON). She understands basic concepts and pick them up quick but more complicated thinking you can find her frustrated. WH questions, Who ,what ,when ,where and why have always been challenging especially "why" but she has even shown great improvement with them. In the recent months, she has been recently starting to ASK questions!!! That is AMAZING in itself and then she asked 3 WHY questions! The most complicated "thinking" of them all. Sabrina has even answered a few other Wh questions as well! Something that just didn't happen BEFORE the journey began. I still SEE the difficulty and right now, although so many tremendous improvements throughout her recovery journey, the reality is her brain damage is prevalent where I sadly do not see the possibility for a FULL recovery for her. (FULL recovery = Loss of autism diagnosis) Although extremely independent, she will always need some type of support and protection. Perhaps IF she received the medical help at age 2 when she received her diagnosis, things could of been different. The SOONER you implement treatment the BETTER chance for a full recovery. We had a late start and even so, I am BEYOND thankful for the leaps and bounds she has improved! I do keep HOPE that things will continue to improve as she is NOT fully detoxed just yet. That is going to be a slow on going process which will take time. I am keeping the faith and I do have hope left for more improvement overall cognitively , expressive / receptive language, and auditory processing. Once her health was back on track then I wanted to turn all my energy and focus on her "outside" therapy. Anything to help build her brain connections like what we have been doing the past year utilizing Neurofeedback which has been a huge help in developing those skills. Also get her more involved with the community. Put her social skills more to work, continue on building her self esteem and self confidence so when she is presented in a social setting with typical peers she feels good and comfortable to where she will not "bug out" but instead interact and be her funny, silly self. She has made a friend in which she calls her "my best friend Casadee" and has continued to develop her relationship with her typical 10 year old peer. Developmentally she continue to slowly mature and seams most comfortable and interacts best with the "tweens". She will also be returning to ballet class next week which is SUPER exciting for her. She misses the classes and cannot wait to get back in class with other typical peers (tweens). She has evolved so much its been amazing to watch her continue to grow. She is a HAPPIER, HEALTHIER kid and because of that we are FINALLY able to SEE WHO Sabrina is. She has Finally BROKE through that barrier. Autism cannot have my child anymore! She is a FIGHTER and she is WINNING! 

 I am definitely optimistic about her future but I'm also a realist. I am taking everything day by day. I keep reminding myself that we haven't crossed the "finish line" just yet. We still have our last mountain to get over (detox) but we are half way there and will make it through fighting, kicking and screaming if need be! I am just so grateful to God for guidance and thankful to our angels here on earth that have helped to make some of these therapies possible for her to participate in. (Thank you for your donations!)       

My girl definitely has a troop of Guardian Angels watching over her! 

Don't let anyone fool you, AUTISM RECOVERY IS REAL! ♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡

 So I'm Sitting in my kitchen at the kitchen table scrolling through my Facebook like I do every morning so I could reply to anyone who has sent me messages or ask questions or responded on my pages.... Sabrina comes walking in....

"Mom what are you doing?"

"I am on Facebook checking out my pages and responding to people. What are you doing?"

"Oh I see, that's okay Mom. I hope you have a good morning"

"If you give me a big hug I know my morning will be better."

So I stand up and open up my robe and get a big snuggle hug from my girl.

"Come with me Mom, to mom's bathroom"

"Okay, why are we going to Mom's bathroom?"
We walk over to my bathroom she opens the door puts me in there and closes the door.

"Go ahead mom now you can go pee!"

"Oh gee thanks, LOL, but I don't have to pee what am I to do now?"

She ran away laughing....
No clue what all that was about I thought it was cute and had to share. Lol‪ #‎FUA‬