hope for autism

"All illnesses have some hereditary contribution. Genetics loads the gun and enviroment pulls the trigger." -Dr. Frances S. Collins(important suit in the medical community)
My son has something wrong with him. He is 5 years old, has very special needs, and is somewhere on the autism spectrum. So far it has been a very long road of finding out what was wrong and discovering ways to parent him. In the last couple of months he has gotten worse. He has meltdown after meltdown, his brothers don't want to be near him, and I often find myself confining him to his bedroom so I can do things like cook dinner. Something has got to give. I can't do this anymore. We are all trapped inside this label called autism and I am going to get my son out.
First, I would like to mention that I am fully aware of all the medical research out there. Probably more than most people. I spent months on bedrest with my last pregnancy and do you know what I did? I researched vaccines. Everyday. That having been said, I know my son was not born this way. I know when he changed. He changed after a vaccine, two of them actually. I believe the first allergic reaction was the one that did him in. The one just cemented his place on the spectrum. Like I wrote at the top of this page, I believe my son had a pre-exsisting sensitivity to the aluminum and formaldehide and the vaccines just set it off. After receiving the vax (both times) he stopped pooping for a week. A breastfed baby that doesn't poop for a week can get very, very ill. The toxins that build up in his colon poisoned his fragile body. My son is just one out of every 50 children that have a bad reaction to these vaccines.
All of the reports that claim vaccines are 100% safe and do not cause toxic allergic reactions, are backed up by companies that would lose a lot of money if we didn't give our kids their vaccines. There are doctors however, that will speak truthfully about the dangers of these poisons despite the risk of losing money and credibitlity. Most notably Jay N. Gordon, MD, FAAP, IBCLC, FABM who is Assistant Clinical Professor of pediatrics at UCLA Medical Center and Former Senior Fellow in Pediatric Nutrition at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Institute who said this: "Vaccines can cause autism". There are studies that say vaccines do not cause autism. They may be right. But, the vaccines did cause my son to get sick and not poop, releasing heavy amounts of toxins into his body over a period of a week. That caused his autism. Are we truly shocked that mercury, aluminum, and formaldehyde are making babies sick?
Off my soap box. I am writing today after a hopeful light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel decision we made. While at the end of my rope I was beginning to think about sending my son away to live with someone else. Can I tell you that I was truly defeated in this struggle? I prayed a very desperate prayer and waited on direction from God.
A response was plopped into my lap in the form of a book written by Jenny McCarthy. I knew that her son was on the spectrum and that she healed him somehow. What worked for her son may not work for mine, but I am going to try it. I have hope. It has been hard reading this book because I sob and sob. She knows exactly what I am going through. I only wish I would have read this sooner. It is so encouraging and supportive to me to know that she's gone through this too. If I ever get to meet her I will hug her and tell her how much sharing her heart means to me. I am NOT alone!
I need to go now, but I just wanted to share this ray of hope. I will most likely keep updating this blogs on the progress of our plan (we are going to detox him and change his diet).
Thanks for reading!
Love,
Jackie