A little piece of heaven

Some of you may know we have 2 lovely great danes – Lucas and Lola. Well every morning and every night, Owen takes them to the park to run around and play.

A couple of nights ago, we had our 3 nephews over spending the night and all of them went to the park to take Lucas and Lola.

Then they came back and we all went to bed.

Well Lucas has this awful habit of sneaking into bed with us in the mornings. So I woke up the night morning very joyfully to feel I had some much space in the bed. Until panic dawned and I ran outside looking for Lucas. Again, my weird 6th sense kicked in and I knew something was up with my Lucas.

So I start looking around and I get Owen to help me look and low and behold, we found Lucas. Guess where he was? STILL IN THE CAR!

Owen and the kids forgot to get him out of the car when they came back from the park! So poor Lucas spent an entire night and about 12 hours in the car.

Needless to say the guilt was free flowing and he got lots of meat and hugs and kisses.

Other than that, we’ve had a quiet, uneventful thanksgiving. Nathan enjoyed himself except now he’s sick again. He hasn’t quite gotten over the bronchitis and now he has a fever. So we will be running to the doctor in the morning.

I have a couple more updates that I will post later, both very exciting. But right now it’s too late and I should get to bed.

I’ll post a picture of Lucas after his accident later.

Today was our 2nd day with the Australian Institutes for the Achivement of Human Potential people. I can’t say enough how thoroghly and completely impressed I am with them. Today I am exhausted and have an early morning tommorrow, so I won’t say too much, but I will tell you that things are about to change for us.

The first, and most important thing, is the FLOOR. Nathan is not allowed to be anywhere but on the floor on his belly unless he’s eating, bathing, or in therapy. The rest of the time, on his belly, on the floor. Period.

Today I almost had a nervous breakdown as they forced me to put him down and of course he screamed and screamed. But they believe this will be to his benefit. I told them what the lady from unlimitedbrain.com told me, that he shouldn’t be stressed, but they said that’s BS. THey have worked with thousands of kids, and many of them cry, but eventually, they figure it out and stop. And he’s not going to improve unless he’s on his belly. And in the long run this is what he needs, it is more to his advantage for us to let him cry for a few days or weeks but eventually he will get head control and learn to move, than to keep him from crying, hold him all day, and he doesn’t get head control or mobility.

So on the floor he goes.

It will require a SERIOUS paradigm shift for me as I don’t handle Nathan crying very well. But it is time. Chad is a psychologist so he really helped me to understand the importance of this and gave me some great SELF CARE tips. He said that for this to work I have to make sure my cup is full! More on that later. I could write a book from everything that’s happened in the last 3 days.

But I will just say that Nathan has a new program, that he will be on the floor when he’s not in program or in therapy, and that his new protocol will include all sorts of great things including ABR, Hyperbarics, AIAHP, and Napa.

For now, bed…more tommorrow or the day after.

Thanks for checking in! And if you’re reading this and have sent me an email or comment lately, I am so sorry so much has gone on I haven’t had time for emails this week, but I promise that I will reply back in the next few days. I love you all and I am so happy to be sharing this journey with wonderful people!

The other night I woke up in the middle of the night to find myself humming, humpty dumpty sat on a wall, humpty dumpty had a great fall, all the kings horses and all the kings men, couldn’t put humpty together again. It took me several days to understand the significance of this waking dream.

Even after realizing that all the kings horses and all the kings men can’t put Nathan’s brain together again, deep down I still remember that other voice from another dream saying, “Give the dendrites time to grow.”

So we got trained in ABR, got the hyperbaric chamber, and pursued the nutritional training.

Now, today, we have all the pieces of the puzzle.

Yet all this week I have found myself looking at all the pieces of the puzzle and wondering, now what? What is more important? How do we fit everything into a day? How de we prioritize them all?

Today I received the final missing piece of the puzzle that will make it all come together. Napacenter.org had an open house / seminar with a group of professionals. They had a team from the Australian Institute for the Achievement of Human Potential, a nutritionist, a functional neurologist, and a tomatis therapist giving small lectures and Q&A sessions. And it was AMAZING.

All of these professionals agree that our children need an intense, highly individualized and holistic approach to their health and wellness. They all agree that nutrition is first and foremost, and that the kids need stimulation at various levels. Each of them believes that there are many things that can help children, and that parents should craft an approach that is best for their individual children.

What blew me away is that what I saw validates exactly what I’ve been trying to do, which is pull in various modalities into one protocol that supports Nathan’s development at all levels – biological, cognitive, emotional, social, etc.

You know how people say that if you put it out there, the universe, or God, will answer? Well it blows me away how true this is. I put it out there that I needed help integrating all of the pieces of the puzzle into a cohesive daily routine. And now I found the people that can help me do that and I am stoked!

Chad and his dad Tim Timmermans will be coming to see Nathan on Monday and will evaluate him in his home environment and give us a plan. This will be similar or idential to the Reach program, except they will be able/willing to help us integrate other therapies. THey think ABR is great and Hyperbarics, and believe that nutrition is crucial, so since we’ve already got all of these elements plugged in, they will give us exercises from their program and help us create a daily schedule.

Anyways, I am thrilled, excited, and so happy to have found help.

I will share more about what I learn from all these people in the coming week as we will be scheduling appointments to see all of them!