WOW - first DAN! appt Yesterday

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We had our first DAN! appt yesterday for (2 1/2 year old,

apraxic, no asd dx)

Earlier in the week I faxed her (Elaine Hardy, NP) a chronology of

's health from birth, with all dates, times, places, reasons,

etc for doctor visits or anything related (EI eval, ST appts, ENT

appts, peds, Vax's, illnesses, my illnesses/meds while nursing, etc).

I did this on excel and resorted by date when I was finished. WOW, I

thought it told a story. I also faxed the EI eval from April, his

SLP evals since May and his vax schedule and blood test results. The

last thing I put in there was my overall thoughts on what I

was " seeing " and " feeling. " And a list of questions and things I

wanted to make sure we covered.

When we got there she had the 22 pages I faxed her and she had tons

of highlights. She said to me in the first minute that I had already

figured it all out and that she was just there to validate my

suspisions and give us a path. I was floored - in both a good and

bad way of course. My suspicion was that he's loaded with yeast, has

sensitivities to milk and possibly some other foods, isn't absorbing

good stuff anymore (vitamins, etc) and just " needs " to be more

healthy, and maybe some metals going on.

LONG story short - I told her that in my opinion, for the past 10

months I've always felt that was " knocking on the window of

autism " and she wholeheartedly agreed. His evals from March/April

were dramatically different from the Nov/Dec updates and she felt the

interventions we did in between were what was turning a corner for

him (EI, ST, Omega 3, probiotics, regular good vitamins, no

antibiotics, no more vax's) She looked me straight in the eye and

said, " I believe you are right. He was right there but whatever

you've done since earlier this year has moved him further away. " I

was floored. My husband leaned over and said " Good job Mama " gave me

a kiss on the cheek and she started to cry and so did I.

So now we need to " have the science back up the intuition " and have

blood, urine and stool testing done. Monday at 9am we have the blood

and we'll collect the urine and stool Monday night to get sent out

Tuesday. She expects to find yeast, which we'll get rid of, she

expects to find milk/casein sensititivies, which we'll work on and

she expects to find too much " bad stuff " and not enough " good

stuff. " I wholeheartedly agree that everything starts with the GUT

and that started out DAY ONE behind the 8 ball (NICu

admission within 4 hours of birth, spent 3 days there on IV

antibiotics which eventually weren't " necessary " bc the blood

cultures were negative, then started with chronic ear infections at

age 3 months....)

Anyway, I love this woman. If ANYONE in NJ is looking to get started

with a DAN!, Elaine Hardy is great. I know I only spent an hour with

her, but you know how you just get " that feeling " about someone.

She's a mom of 2 and her entire family is holistic, organic, dye free

and healthy so I already admire what she does and who she is. she

got into this field (DAN!) because of some concerns about her son,

who is 6 now, and found a deep appreciation for the

mind/body/holistic connection.

So our plan for now is increase the Omega 3 (which I've

already seen an improvement on), change to Culturelle for probiotics,

get the right SuperNuThera vitamin (he's been getting the kirkmans

childrens wafer which I thought was SNT but its not), keep up the ST

and try to get more protein in his system however we can (she

believes he anemic too). And we document everything. I'm starting a

personal blog. My husband is over the top into this now (I really

had to spoon feed him info since I made the appt 6 weeks ago and

little by little I showed him more biomed info and he's now just

finishing McCarty's book).

Eventually we're going to do some testing on our 6 year old for food

sensitivities and such bc he gets those dark circles too but he's got

so much of a better diet and vitamin regimine than .

Anyway, thats our deal for now.....very strangely exciting!

Tina in NJ