Today Was One of Those Good Days

 

Call me crazy, but I think there is something to this Diflucan.  I am a doubting Thomas, so doubting that I read the vaccine books and vaccinated the kid anyway.....oh damn you doubt!  

I doubted ABA and that worked, I doubted pre-school and it seems to be working, hell I doubt myself everyday and I seem to be doing ok with all this.  So when the Dr. mentioned the Diflucan over a month ago I was hopeful but tried not to get too excited.  

As you all know we started Diflucan about a month and a week ago.  Two weeks in Frankie started speaking in some full sentences and his poop got better.....then the medicine expired ( long story, I had no idea) and those things went away.  Now a week into a new Rx of Diflucan that is not expired and he is spitting out full sentences that make sense again.  This morning I had to pick the boy up at school because I didn't get the Dr to sign a paper saying he could return to school.  So to the Dr we go to sign papers and drop the boy back off.  In the car a little voice pops up "Mama, I want to go home"......um no you are going to school but THAT WAS A GREAT SENTENCE!  woo hoo!  

He went back and a few hours later I picked Boy wonder off the bus.  Like I do everyday I pick him up, give him a big kiss and like clock work "Did you have fun at school" comes out of my mouth.  Everyday he just repeats it back to me, some days he says it before I can.  Today was different, today I asked "did you have fun at school" and Frankie said Yes.  I asked "what did you do?" (which is also parroted back) but today he answers "I painted leaves".  My my, the boy talks!  

He continued to chat it up here and there in little sentences, then he runs over to the stove and yells "Mama, Look its New CEREAL!, I want new cereal!"  New cereal is anything that is not chex.  I let him have 2 bowls of new cereal because I was so happy he was talking. He went on to have 2 slices of bread, 10 Ritz cracker and a rice cake.....all because he asked.  

Again, my doubt will probably disappear.  To think Yeast could effect you in such ways is crazy.  We shall see, can not wait for the weeks to come!

Oh puzzles!

I'm not a huge fan of bold primary colors.....maybe that's why I was never a huge fan of the Autism Awarness ribbons etc. I'm a much bigger fan of pastels, maybe a splash of glitter, animal print anyone?

When I was pregnant with Frankie, my number one request was no primary colors, soft greens and browns please, yuck to bold reds and blues. I've said it before and I will say it again, God has a funny way of teaching me a lesson. Anything I have put down, made fun of, looked down at said would never happen to someone as awesome as me in the past........has happened......I've learned, it's not all that bad though. This morning I said if I go get an estheticians licence I will never di brazilian waxes......I will now be condemned to waxing women's crotches for life......sorry, back to topic!

So I'm finally understanding this puzzle concept. I have been frustrated lately because the Diflucan did not live up to my expectation. For a week Frankie's poop got better and then this last week it's bad again. Here I am wondering what the heck is going on!! So I sit here this morning feeling defeated, I realize this whole gluten thing must be a factor. So through some reading, it seems that Celiacs suffer from yeast infections.....so I can only think that if I keep feeding him gluten the yeast will stay. Then I realize I had been giving him the Diflucan with yogurt, a probiotic, and now I give it to him with apple sauce. So then I wonder if it's the absence of the good bacteria that is making his stomach screwy.

I feel like a detective, like I'm trying to solve some mystery and I keep taking 3 steps forward and 2 steps back. So, yes, now I see the puzzle. I feel like my son is a 10,000 piece puzzle. Honestly though, I picture Frankie as one of those beautiful landscape puzzles.....with natural soft colors.

School is making me feel out of control

So, I'm a control freak.  I wish I was a neat freak, but no, just a control freak.  I liked when I had Frankie getting services at home because I ALWAYS knew what was going on.  Don't get me wrong, I get tons of notes home and write back and forth  but I'm not there.

I guess I am lucky because I have heard many times about kids regressing when they start school or are placed in a program that doesn't fit them.  Well Frankie hasn't regressed.....he is kind of just staying the same.  I'm spoiled though, he gained so much in the first few months of  his ABA therapy that I just assume he will always proceed in leaps and bounds.  The reality is that, his progress was a blessing and now in reality progress is not always so fast, sometimes it is SLLLLOOOOWWWW.  He comes home and mentioned things here or there about school, but never to me.  He will just say "Jada and slide" so I figure he went to the playground which was confirmed in his communication notebook.

Today he starts ABA at home again with Kim.  He is only getting 2 hours a week, but....whatever its something.  I had to fight to get that, it was so bad they didn't even write it was behavioral therapy on the IEP.  The reasoning for that was so that administration wouldn't get mad....the games we have to play because of budget cuts.

On a side note we are on day 10 of Diflucan.  I am crazy and expected miracles EVEN when I was told it would take weeks.  SO, yes it will take weeks to see anything, if they gave him more medicine it would have made him sick, to kill of yeast that much would have made him sick and that's not what we are looking to do.  I will keep you updated :)

Why Hello Yeast Death

So Day one came and went.....with only a few wonky issues.  On the night of September 12th I gave Frankie the first dose of Diflucan......and waited.  I know that there are side effects of yeast death, those being headache, stomach ache, constipation, low grade fever and behaviors being amplified.

Well, our behavior amplification came in the form of irrational crying and having a HUGE tantrum leaving school.  That Tantrum was worse then anything I had ever seen.  That was day one.....day two i saw nothing....today is day 3.  This by the way is a very slow yeast kill off, he is still getting food with yeast, its just the diflucan doing the majority of the work right now.

Tomorrow we will be going for the enormous blood draw.......I'm not a fan, I'm very anxious honestly