Where We Started.

We weren’t your average family that started right at the developmental ped. I made the phone calls and a year to year and half waitlist discouraged me. I was still on the fence that this was actually my child. I saw so much potential in him. I saw the red flags but I also saw Michael; smart, brilliant, funny, kind. His autism symptoms werent always day in and day out. We had days were Michael was back, clear as day, funny, happy, just as we remembered him and within 24-48 hours after eating something that could all change into rage, diarrhea, head banging, tantrums, and sickness. At this point in our journey I felt like no one was helping us. Waitlist years long, doctors dismissing our concerns about overall health and just telling us its “behavioral”, friends and family not supporting our dietary changes for our son even though they were all HEALTHY changes. We were lost. A friend who at the time I just saw around at work, you know talk to here and there, we began talking more when she became a mother (well now we text 24/7 and she is one of Michael and my biggest supporters). She offered me something that I literally think I replied “yeah, ok.” and in my head replied angrily, no one will ever understand what I am going through. She was recommending chiropractic care.

At this point I was desperate, I was on a waitlist for developmental ped, receiving one hour of therapy a week from Early Intervention for the past 6 months and I just felt like anything that was going to “help” my son was blocked. Now on the other side of this I realize it was God’s plan all along. Things happened for a reason. Chiropractor care was suppose to happen first for OUR journey. The man who I still to this day truly believe saved our son and our angel on earth as I tell my parents, the chiropractor. Not because of his heroic acts, or his practices, or this or that. More so because he HEARD me. He heard me as a mother. He made me feel as though my concerns of my sons OVERALL health weren’t crazy. They weren’t made up. They were real concerns that the body and all these things are connected and if I didn’t start to do my own research and question pediatricians, and voice my concerns over and over again that things might just keep getting progressively worse.

So that’s honestly where we started I had him in early intervention for 6 months with no progress. We began chiropractic care at 28 months. I was skeptical. I didn’t understand chiropractic care. I thought it was going to be another waste of time but I was desperate. I learned so much through the guidance of chiropractic care about my sons body then I will ever be able to pay back. I pushed for the why’s. The what ifs. I walked into our chiropractors office a broken, confused mom. And he gave me the confidence to fight for exactly what my son needed. We still are continuing chiropractic care along our autism journey as it helps so much with my sons constant “FLIGHT” mode. I actually texted former chiropractor after Michael’s autism evaluation with the results. And I commented “could you imagine where Michael would be on the Autism Spectrum if we did not incorporate chiropractic care and healthy decisions this past year” The nervous system is a very interesting key piece to everyones body, but especially those with chronic health conditions. Do your research, make your own decision, and get those nervous systems in check!