It has been a while since my last post. We have started summer break last week being our first full week. We have enjoyed the pool - Alex is getting so dark already. We've had some track meets and swim meets. My husband has started another stretch of traveling but we are hanging in there. While we are at track practices I have had an opportunity to visit with one of Alex's therapists (I mentioned her in previous posts) - Christine. She stops by occasionally to watch Alex practice and of course to talk with his mom. Although last night at practice Alex was soooo tired. The kids went to their first day of summer "camp". They played hard in the morning then walked to the pool, swam hard and walked home. Needless to say he was very tired and running wasn't what he wanted to do.
Last weekend I volunteered for our local Farmer's Market and ran into an old acquaintance, Penni. Penni was Alex's first Aide in Preschool. It was so nice to see her. What was even better was her story of how she is going to work for a health food/supplement store here in our town. She has been through the diet, detoxing, etc. that is often recommended for kids with Autism and is very knowledgeable. Through all her research and personal experience she has gained this knowledge and is switching her "career" to help others through this store. She said that she was so scared to have Alex as it was her first year as an aide. She didn't know anything about Autism. She was so wonderful with him and she said that she recognized things in Alex that her daughter had going on when she was growing up but they never knew what it was. I had mentioned to her about the diet, etc. and she said that was what got her to take a seminar class on it at an Autism convention and as they say, the rest is history! She then went through the diet and detoxing herself.
So amazing how you meet and touch people and you don't even realize it.
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