Today's Oprah

[LIZARD]

What'd y'all think of it?? I was all set to write off Jenny's book, but I thought her interview was quite good and might read it. I think true "recovery" is a bunch of bunk, but she did have some good things to say.


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[Kristen (ColeysMom)]

Hey Lizard...I actually missed the first few minutes cuz Audrey woke screaming...I didn't get to hear what happened before the EMTs arrived.

And missed a few minutes here & there after that too...but aside from that I thought it was pretty good!

I'm just gonna say (without a lot of dialog) that I'm not sure how I feel about the whole vaccine thing...timing is right for us, and he did get REALLY sick from his MMR, I mean sicker than he's ever been with anything...but I think his problems were there prior to it...just don't know about it....

But as far as recovery goes...I SOOOOOO think it's possible! And I guess Coley is my 'science' on that...

Are we there yet...I probably wouldn't be here screaming about pee soaked stuff if we were...have we made HUGE progress...oh yeah! DO I think that progress is at a dead end...hell NO! I TOTALLY see this as possible...and at the risk of being threatened with some sort of pen or something, I'm gonna go a head and say that I think RDI is going to give us a HUGE leap forward!

[Tootsie]

A few weeks ago, I happened to be listening to PBS on the radio while I was in the car. There was a discussion of autism and the court case, that is being pursued by some parents, in regard to required childhood immunizations, and what they feel is a correlation with their own child's developing symptoms of autism.

I do not recall the names of the experts being interviewed. However, one gave a description of the different types of autism and one type, was the onset of symptoms at about the age of 15 months. That, correlates with the administration of the MMR vaccine. However, in the discussion, it was very clear that even children never given vaccines, can and do, develop autism at the same age.

It seems that autism, like cancer, is not just a single condition but a group of symptoms with common characteristics. There has been discussion in the state of California, that the increasing numbers of children, diagnosed with autism, is due to the incredible number, of highly intelligent people, lured here by the technology industry. They carry genetic markers for Aspberger's, meet, marry and produce children that develop somewhere on the spectrum. It is just another interesting hypothesis to try and explain what we do not yet understand. Cheerio.