Re: Thanks DR. Sutter well said!

Yes, WW2 was not what anyone thinks. History books are always rewritten. My husband has always been interested in the Vietnam war since his dad was in it. His dad was a communication officer. He didn't do much fighting but saw enough. He returned a broken man, though. He married had 4 kids(my husband being the youngest) and abused them all esp. his 2 boys. Sad really. He was treated bad returning home as well. It wasn't the vets fault they were drafted but society blamed them anyways. My husband always has been interested in the war like watching Vietnaum movies or reading about it. There never seems to be much reliable info out there. Tonight I will watch the links you posted when there is no whining toddler at my feet(like right now LOL)

Right now my FIL is an angry, obese man on disability who can hardly walk, with BAD type 2 diabetes and he can hardly go to the bathroom. Last year he was in the hosp. will a perforated bowel from the fact that he did too many enema's. He eats a bad diet and doesn't care, his docs say he will die if he doesn't change his diet. He doesn't change it and I think he has a death wish, its sad.

I am amazed when I read about what you went through. You were one of the few that survived and I am not talking about the war, I am referring to AFTER the war! It definitely was something that changed people and sadly the war had no point. All those deaths and lifetime trauma's for what? It must have been a tough battle and long but you did beat it. I bet very few do.

My baby was recently diagnosed high functioning autistim. My younger brother has it but growing up we had no clue what it was, the experts just said developmentally delayed with autistic tenacities.He never received any intervention and at 26 still lives with my parents, miserable.

About 8 years or so my mom became convinced the shots caused his problems. I was skeptical but read up on it. I regret that I still did get them for my daughter(who is now 8 and developmentally ahead and very healthy) By the time Joshua came I had decided no shots at all! It was a difficult preg. and he was very active. When I was in labor he was squirming and when he came out he was breathing very short and couldn't breath in much. I was alowed to hold him literally 5 seconds while they got the incubator thing ready and rushed him to NICU. He was there for 12 days. It was really hard because he was so small and we thought he would die. He had to have an antibiotic to clear the lung infection and then after that he was fine. Then around a year of age we knew something wasn't right. He rocked back and forth on his hands and knees and stared at his hands allot. My sister was getting her degree in autism research and we knew the signs so we got him evaluated by 3 different specialists. Long story short he was diagnosed as developmentally delayed and autistic. He is 20 months old right now and just started speech therapy(he doesn't say any words) occupation therapy(for his rocking and vestibular/sensory issues) and psychical therapy because his gait is off.He toes inward and hates you to touch his extremities. He has body, space sensory issues. The physical therapy will only be for about 6 months or so just to put him on track. The speech and occ. therapy is until it is no longer needed. He is on NO meds and will never be if I can help it. My husband and I are very against drugs. We allowed the antibiotics when he was a newborn because he was dying but since then nothing not even vitamins! We never gave him the shot nor do I have any cavities/dental work.
He is on a dairy free diet and I consider going wheat free as well as allot of people have seen results going dairy and soy, and wheat free. I hesitate to stop giving him bread since he's small(22lbs)

I feel bad that he's on therapy and part of its paid for by the state. We never wanted to go on ANY type of gov. program but as soon as insurance gets an autism diagnosis they drop ya. We can't afford all the therapy's so we had to go through the state. We make too much $ for programs like ACCESS but this program there is no income guidelines since most insurance company's won't insure someone once there is an autistic diagnose. Maybe someday in the future we can stop the therapy's but for now we have seen progress already so we continue.

Eek! I have been on the computer for to long. Thanks for reading/responding.

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