A little piece of heaven

I got this recipe from Dr. Dituro, I thought I would share it:

OPTIMUM RESONANT HEALTH

One cup 4% whole milk Organic Cottage Cheese

One Half Cup fresh blueberries or straw berries

Two teaspoons Ground Organic Flax seeds

Two teaspoons Royal Jelly

Two teaspoons Honey Unheated

wash berries and crush with a fork
add flax and mix
add Royal Jelly and Honey and mix
add the cottage cheese and mix
let stand for 5 min
drink 8oz of pure water as you wait

One or two cups of tea or coffee ok but no sugar any artificial sweetener or milk however after 7 days stop the coffee and replace it with Super Nano-Green Tea

No other food till 12 noon

By the third day you loose ½ Lb per day (in some patients).

In 4 weeks we will look to decrease medication

Ingredients: Most of these ingredients can be found at Whole Foods or at a health food store. Try to get the purest honey you can get. Ask for the Royal Jelly – it’s not just any jelly, it’s a special kind of jelly. If you cant’ find the ingredients at a health food store near you, order them online, there are may places that carry these ingredients on the internet.

I would do a lot more of this:

We went to Gymboree today to this music class and he LOVED it. By the time we thought to film him he was getting tired, but earlier he was smiling and laughing and babbling. He just LOVED it!

So if I could turn back time, if I could find the way…

But since I can’t turn back time I will start now! We’ll be taking him to Gymboree at least 3 times a week and doing these sorts of classes with him 🙂

I had SO MUCH FUN too, if you can’t tell.

Today I was feeling nostalgic so I decided to go back to the blog and read old posts, starting from Februrary 07. I read all the way through until February 08.

And what struck me as I went on this journey to through time was – something went wrong. In the first posts starting in Feb 07, I mostly wrote about trips to the park, the zoo, playing in the pool, getting together with other parents. Life was good. Easy. Simple. Enjoyable.

I started comparing it to life now, and wondered, what happened? Life got so complicated. We lost a lot of our joy.

So I went back to read and try to trace the journey. And I did discover what happened. It was in Jan/Feb 08. Until that point, we were taking things easy, relaxing, giving Nathan time. We thought he had plenty of time to develop. Then, after a visit to NIH in Maryland and a visit to Rutgers in NJ which all revolved around Nathan’s disability and assesing his weaknesses, a firm resolve to “fix him” entered my mind.

I decided that I would prove all those people wrong and that we would find whatever it took to make Nathan develop. So I set out on a quest.

Unfortunately, it was a quest which zapped a lot of the joy from our lives. We went from having lots of fun, carefree moments, to being very stressed out and busy. Most of 08 for us was very stressed out and busy. We travelled a lot, went from therapy to therapy, looking for answers, newer better treatments.

And we did. We found a lot of answers, a lot of treatments, a lot of options. Too many. So it became difficult to find which way to go. SO we decided to go in all directions, and to do everything. It was stressful. Stressful for me, stressful for Nathan, stressful for Owen.

Now, in 09, I decided to integrate everything we learned and to make sure we did everything in a day that we wanted to do. So I made a new schedule that I posted a couple of days ago. A very very intense schedule.

But when I discussed that with our new doctor, Dr. Dituro, he said, no. Find time to relax. Give fun priority. Let him be a kid. I’ll get his body strong and healthy. You focus on strengthening his strengths. I’ll focus on his weakness.

Which brought me to a question I’ve been asking myself lately. So much of our effort goes towards strengthening Nathan’s weaknesses. But what about his strengths – cognition and social development? What if I focused on those instead?

In lieu of my post “2 much, not enough”, I’d already decided to focus more on ABR and drop a few therapies.

But now, having learned from my own experiences, I feel encouraged to look again. I want to make more time for fun. I want to make time for more social activities, like developmental classes at Gymboree. Maybe instead of focusing 100% of our energy on his physical development, we should spend 50% of our energy on physical development, and 50% on receptive language/cogntivive/social development.

It just feels like time to bring more joy into our lives. For the last couple of weeks we haven’t kept to any schedules and have done a lot of chilling and relaxing. Which is why Nathan has been so happy and laughing a lot. Maybe I should take my cue from him 🙂

So hopefully I will be posting about more fun things like visits to the park, gatherings with friends, and other such fun things.