Below is an article from the Journal of Translational Medicine.
One of the authors is from the clinic we went to in Costa Rica ICM.
This is one of the first articles I ever read about stem cells, and this is the form of treatment Joshua has received, exactly 1 month ago today he had his first appointment and had the catheter placed. I think this article may be informational to some, like I have stated before I am not endorsing everything written as truth this is for informational purposes only. :}
Well everyone I will be working the next 4 days straight with only Tuesday off, then I work three more days in a row. I will be on and off of here trying to keep ya'll up to date, but try to understand if I miss a couple days, I do not always have access to a computer to write and by the time I get home at night all I want to do is take a shower and lay down with my kiddos.
Today we went to the store and bought some gluten free items for Joshua, as you know he is allergic to cane sugar and some different flours so it is hard to feed him exactly as his allergies read, and the effects are bad for all involved if he eats the wrong things. We order beat sugar
off of the Internet, and buy a special flour for baking items for Joshua. We buy rice bread he is not big on it, he has a reaction to rice also just not as bad a regular bread that does have wheat flour and sugars in it. Gary bakes stuff that he can enjoy without the allergy reactions for him. The closest we can stay to keeping him away from the foods he reacts to, the happier he is.
We have not started using the Alpha-Stim 100 yet for his therapy as today is my only day off, it will be on my next day off that I can really read everything about the treatment and how to use it correctly. So I will not be reporting on that until next week.
We have been contacted by the Founder of a very large wellness center in California, they treat many disorders and the way they do it is brilliant, we will be able to see all the way down to his neurons and watch how they react or do not react we will be able to see the total deficits in his body (what works what doesn't) this form of imaging is AMAZING and groundbreaking, this company has the patent on the equipment and people from all over come to this center to get treated. After Joshua is seen there I will write all about them, right now I have no true information on them from experience so I do not want to start something and it is not beneficial. It is not to expensive for the first 5 tings they do under $2,000.00 but follow up supplements are needed but they are economical too (one being Colloidal Silver). For the thorough testing they do I am thrilled like I said they do 5 different forms of testing, by the time we are done we will know everything about Joshua's body and system and how well it is working and we will then be able to go back and see with our own eyes with the imaging how the supplements and treatment are working (of course that is an additional cost). This is a no guess work therapy, we can follow each step with the imaging, but each imaging session takes about one and a half hours so the hard part is trying to keep Joshua fairly still, but we are able to be right with him and he can watch videos too. I am not trying to be secretive but I do not believe in endorsing anything unless I know everything about it. I have spoken with the founder and he is offering some of the treatment free for Joshua as Joshua will be part of a tracking study but the rest we will pay for as I seem to understand it. I have taken two days to really research everything and I believe this is a great follow up post stem cell treatment, I believe the two in conjunction with each other can be totally amazing, I wish we could have gotten the full body imaging before we went to Costa Rica so we could have seen the before and track the after, but that is OK.
Again we tried to go to a few stores today as I said above and again Joshua had a fit it was awful, Gary had to take him to the truck and Jacob and I finished shopping, but in the truck he kept on going no matter what we did, I finally said pull the car over and took him out into an empty parking lot and let him jump around and we started to laugh and got his mind changed around a bit (mine too), if I had not did that I felt like my head was going to pop off, I felt like I could just start yelling out and screaming myself, I felt stressed, I felt like I could loose my mind (this is after at least 20 minutes of his yelling and crying and he kept yelling at our little one Jacob too) when I said loudly "pull the car over I knew I needed to do something or I was going to crack, I bet many of you may know the feeling. I do not mind telling you how I felt because I did not let it get to a negative state, I got out of the car and opened Joshua's door he was giving me a really weird look because he has never had us pull over the car and tell him to "come on lets get out" just to walk around....Gary and Jacob stayed in the truck and after about 3-4 minutes Joshua and I were able to get back into the car. If I had not done it he would have continued on his rampage, and we would have just gotten more and more stressed, then we would have had to go straight home and not finish our errands. It was a good judgement call for me, usually I just stifle my stress and it just builds, but as soon as I stepped out of the truck and took him out I felt a huge relief and all of the stress left I hugged him hard and told him how much I loved him and that I was sorry he was having a hard time, we held hands and walked down a little ways to some empty store fronts, we looked at ourselves in the windows and jumped around a bit, I am sure if anyone would have seen us they would have really thought we were crazy. I think Gary took some video of us on his cell phone or tried to, I have not asked him yet, if he did maybe I will post it here. Anyway we were able to go to the second store without him "losing it" then for the first time ever I called my mom and asked her if she would take both boys for an hour or so, so that Gary and I could grab some lunch and decompress a bit. She took them no problem, we went and ate Chinese food talked about Joshua and what we would love to see happen with the stem cells of course, and about how are lives are affected all of our lives Joshua's included. We ate with no interruptions then went and picked them up, it was a nice break very much needed and now I am ready for another day.....one day at a time right??
I will tell you this I was a bit hurt in the store as my Joshua is very very friendly and loving, he says hi to almost everyone he sees he says "hi, hi," and waves if they respond he says "whats your name?, how old are you?" and most of the time before they can answer he says "Joshua I'm fine" then he will ask their name again, most people talk back to him and they smile and remark how friendly he is. But then you get the sour puss people who flip their noses in the air to him or smirk, but today he saw a boy about 10 years old and we were walking in the store Joshua was holding my hand, he looked at the boy and waved he said "hi................hi" the little boy crinkled up his face and gave him a dirty look and looked the other way, it was sad.... Joshua said "he didn't say hi" he said it as a question to me, I just said "no he didn't but that is OK." The boy heard him they were only about 3 ft. away from each other and Joshua is not the quietest child in the least, so I saw the glimpse of what is to come, as children get older (if they are not aware of a situation or have not been taught to be nice to everyone no matter what their disability may be" they react in a negative matter. I tried not to let it hurt me, but it gave me a lump in my throat, how can anyone, any age smirk at such a sweet boy as Joshua or any of our children?? My husband said it is like you have to put a sign on our child's head for people to look past the quirkiness and understand him and that my friends is the sad part, why should we have to do that, why if someone is not hurting anyone but is a little different they are snubbed or ignored??? It makes me want to just jump up and down and yell "what is wrong with you??? My child said hi to you 5 times do you think you could take 5 seconds and acknowledge him??" But that is society, it is not alright by me and that is why I love to inform people, I really would like to go to the schools, all grades and show them a video, like the Autism Everyday documentary or one of Joshua himself, talk about it to them and then bring Joshua in and introduce them to him so they can see a live child in front of them and see past the issues maybe..... and maybe they will think twice the next time they point out another child or adult who is different then them and laugh or make fun of them...... just give them some knowledge let them talk to Joshua, see how funny he can be, and how big his heart is, and maybe it will touch their heart.... I think it is important...to plant the seed you know.... to give everyone the chance they deserve.... to give understanding instead of the fear of the misunderstood or unknown.
OK I better go I have to get to bed or I will yawn all day tomorrow and I do not need that.
Goodnight and God Bless all of you~~~~Lori
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