Re: Couple of more sweet progress

[Guest guest]

Such beautiful news, Rei. My parents are in town for the holiday and

I read it to them to show how much great information and encouraging

news I get from this group. Congrats to you and your family. What a

happy Thanksgiving!

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> Week 7 on Dr. Peng's herb medicine.

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> If you have read my previous email about just a week ago, we

discovered that my son now can eat a lot of food that he was

restricted before. I called that Stage of no diet needed or Stage of

All you can eat. I am sure somehow the herbs trains the body how to

metablize, break down food and absorb variety of food much better

now ( included dairy, wheat and sugar). So, after cheese burger, we

don't see any tantrum, or after a bowl of pasta, he does not have

bloating stomach, or after a sweet desert, he will not get hyper and

stutter and stimming... Still, we see a calm and content child.

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> These recent two days, my son displays great awareness.

> That afternoon, when he and dad went into our car, dad was looking

around and looking for something inside the car before started the

car. My son sat at the passenger seat and out of no where, he told

dad " it is right here. " And he pointed something at the cup holder.

That was dad's cell phone. Yes. At that moment, dad was looking for

his cell phone before he started the car and took off to the store.

After this happened, I asked my husband, if he ever asked my son

where his cell phone was at? My husband said no. We can't figure out

how my son knew what my husband was looking for at that moment. All

my husband did was sitting in the car and looking around his cell

phone without saying a word to distrub my son. We all know that

autistic kid can't take change very well, someone like my son, once

we sit in the car, he expected us to start the car. if something

distrub this procedure, my son used to freak out and throw a

tantrum, that's why my husband kept

> his mouth shut not to let my son know that he may need to get out

of car and get into the house to look for cell phone, instead of

starting car right away. But just at that moment of looking for cell

phone, my son has read his dad's mind and found where the cell phone

was and pointed it to dad.... this is a huuuuuuge change and

progress. He must be aware of and observe surrounding very well,

plus apply his observation to help out others....

> 2) When they took off to grocery store, again, a very crowded and

noisy market, my husband was nervous if my son will run off the

store again ( crowd and noise used to bother him a lot and will

force him to run off the store). Throughout the whole time, my son

did not complain anything, finished up shopping with dad, pushed the

cart at all time, until the end, when they were at the check-out

place, my son walked to the end of counter, started to bag grocery,

calmly and nicely, if he is older, you will think he is working in

that store and bagging for customers. Some of the grocery was big,

he coudn't fit it in one bag, if that happened in the past, that

will make him mad plus another tantrum, but this time, he tried to

arrange other items around in the bag and found a way to fit the big

item into one bag, nice and neat. He won the cashiers' girl's heart.

Cashier girl gave him some free tokens for the video games in the

store for thanking him doing job

> for her. My son smiled at her and used the token to try one of

the games, however, the game was out of order, and then we expected

him another tanturm, but he did not. He inserted all the tokens and

leave the broken game machine there, and told us " Oh, oh, it is not

working... let's go home. " ( instead of tantrum)

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> We were like in a wonderland by eye witness my son's changes and

progress... very thankful in tears...

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> Sincerely,

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> Rei

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[Guest guest]

Rei,

What wonderful news. I’ve got tears in my eyes

reading this. What a wonderful Thanksgiving you all had.

Keep the good news coming.

Carmen

F. Goldman

[Guest guest]

Hi Rei,

Your story is absolutely incredible!

http://www.autismpedia.org/wiki/index.php?title=Rei/Week06

--penumbra

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> Week 7 on Dr. Peng's herb medicine.

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