Archive for January, 2005

The roller coaster ride of rampant toxicity.

Sunday, January 30th, 2005

Those who have been reading this journal for any length of time have often heard me lament the cyclical nature of trying to recover your kid from the autism spectrum. You might feel at the top of your top of your game one day, and everything seems to fall into place with a soft but […]

The abominable snowdog, and other tales of horror.

Monday, January 24th, 2005

One of the inconveniences of being a newf owner is the fact that when winter hits, they want to be outside pretty much all the damned time. Not really being a fan of the white stuff myself, I take no joy in going out with her in this weather. But since we’re headed back to […]

Took the plunge.

Wednesday, January 19th, 2005

We started chelation with transdermal DMPS a couple of days ago. Teeny tiny bottle, teeny tiny drops, but a helluva lot of hooplah. We read, talked, argued, read some more, and finally reached the inevitable conclusion that glutathione alone just ain’t gonna cut it in terms of getting all that mercury out of his body.

So […]

The Mother of All Pic Posts: a Month in Huelva.

Thursday, January 13th, 2005

A lot of kewl digitized memories for your viewing pleasure. I don’t have much else to say, as all the photos have detailed captions.

Click on the image of my ultra-super-handsome boy to check ‘em all out…

Adios, Huelva.

Thursday, January 6th, 2005

At least for now. We plan to return for good this summer. We’re fairly confident in our abilities to provide a lot of Rubén’s intervention ourselves (in fact, we’ve been doing so all this time), and if we get stuck, there’s always a lifeline to our current paraprofessionals via internet and phone (& internet phone, […]

Happy new year: the month in review

Tuesday, January 4th, 2005

Well, my wife is taking a nap and Rubén is out at the park with my father-in-law (who just called to report that my son is playing with other children for the first time EVER :-)

So I figured now would be a good time to update everyone after almost a month-long hiatus. Hopefully our regular […]