Where We're At Right Now...

Okay, so today is Sunday, January 18th. My husband Mike is anxiously watching the Eagles/Cardinals game. I don't have my hopes up too high because I've lived in Philadelphia long enough to know that we are not privy to winning championships! Yes, we did win the World Series after 25 years - go Phillies!

Now on to the latest developments with Sean: we started him on Valtrex (anti-viral therapy) 2 weeks ago. In the beginning, we saw absolutely no difference. But Sean was only getting half the prescribed dose. Once we had a few days under our belt of 1/2 the dose, we started the full dose and WOW!! Right away the craziness hit. When I tell you our boy was out of control, I mean he was OUT OF CONTROL!! He was spinning himself into oblivion, running his hands across his eyes, just like old times, hyperactive, annoying as hell. COMPLETELY AUTISTIC. We are experiencing a MAJOR regression. From what I've read on Stan Kurtz's Yahoo Group, this is a good sign, meaning that Sean is a responder to this anti-viral therapy. His "healing regression" could last up to 30 days. I certainly hope so (that Sean is a responder, not that this regression will last for 30 days). Today I sat down with him to do some activities in his Pre-K Curriculum workbook and he actually was able to write "e" on the worksheet, like the directions required. Amazing!!! People can say what they want about "alternative" treatments, but they seem to be working in Sean's case. I would hate to be one of those parents out there who didn't want to try this route and are now reading my story saying "Oh shit, maybe there's something to this biomed thing..."

Also, we got the results back from the last provocation test and the lead was CUT IN HALF!!! How 'bout that?! We'll do one more test before we see Dr. Stu again to find out where we go next. We've definitely seen great results since starting treatment with Stockton Family Practice.

We are also in the midst of putting together a beef and beer for Sean to help defray the cost of all his treatments. I'll keep you updated! Thanks to everybody for their support!