Love spending my days off with Arianna in the morning, getting ready for school etc... When she learned to put her shoes on all by herself that was a HUGE accomplishment. I'm SO proud of her! One morning she even got her jacket on and I about fell over and my jaw just hung open for a few minutes. The "simple things" are awesome in the world of autism!
Today I spoke with her teacher at Hamlin. We ran a few minutes late getting to school today so I had the honor of walking Arianna to her classroom. Though routines are memorized, Arianna got her folder from her backpack, hung that up and placed her folder in the "in box" to get ready for class. Miss Karen said that Arianna has improved more and more this year especially working one on one following along with lessons, she can do her math and write the number answers independantly with prompting and is more and more social with other students. hard to believe she will be in 1st grade this fall. *sigh*
Back to 2006...early summer Arianna and I met someone who would be in our lives for the next 3 years. at that time we didn't KNOW that but it was a blessing in disguise in regards to Arianna and being able to help her. Being a single mom for over 2 years I wasn't looking for love but love found US! This person had been going through allot of medical troubles through the years himself and knew TONS of information about natural ways to heal the body. As our relationship grew, his wish to help Arianna did too. It was through research that he and I figured out that Arianna had autism...not from some doctor, US. The very first thing our special someone recommended and bought for Arianna was a magnetic mattress pad for her bed. This special negative charged mattress pad filled with hundreds of magnets pulls toxins out of the tissues in our body and in return they get flushed out through the kidneys and urine. Remind you, Arianna did NOT make any eye contact or even pay attention to anyone at this time (summer of 2006). Within 2 weeks of Arianna sleeping on this magnetic pad - - she started to LOOK at us!! A small miracle in it's own....a sign of hope and the start to more research to find ways to help Arianna heal.
forgot to mention that ~I~ also STILL sleep on my magnetic mattress pad to this day!
ReplyDeleteMy love for You and Arianna is infinite! I always wanted a better life for her and to read about her progress is a true blessing...... The pictures you posted are beautiful
ReplyDeleteThank you "me" :O), these pictures are definetly precious to have as well as our older 'family' photos we still keep close to us. Our love, our memories and thankfulness of your help and involvement in our lives will last the rest of our days.
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