Since October, many changes have taken place. We have started and stopped supplements due to the increased stimming, mainly because we tried to introduce ones with mushrooms. Let me take you back to November.
We had a follow-up on November 2nd. We had increased Para 1 and 2 and the Probio Myces. The increase in the Para, which helps with parasites, posed no issues. However, increasing the probiotic increased his stimming, so I scaled back. I stopped it for a few days and returned to his usual dosage. A few days later, I asked Jordan if he wanted to work on his Lego set. He did well with the prompts; I didn't have to repeat them more than once. This was also around when he started to take some of the supplements he takes on his own. He would come down and take the pills, and at some point, he stopped coming to me to ask me if he could take them. I began to ask him if he remembered to take him, and he responded yes, but I wasn't sure. For two days, we went back and forth, with me asking him and him saying yes and me not being sure. So he began to come to me to tell me he was taking them so I wouldn't have to ask him if he did.
A couple of weeks later, we worked on Lego again, and I only had to give him two or three prompts during the entire time he worked on it. It was the best I had ever seen him do on his own. Stimming had decreased, and I also introduced books to him to have him removed from his tablet close to bedtime. This, among other things, helps him sleep. Shortly after, I started him on the supplement A-drenal. Its job is to help maintain healthy cortisol levels and adrenal function. Cortisol helps the body regulate many processes: stress, blood sugar and pressure, and inflammation, to name a few. However, this supplement contained mushrooms, so we wanted to try them on him to see how he responded. His stimming increased. I looked up one of the ingredients I thought was a mushroom called Astragalus membranaceus Root PE. When I researched it, I found it said that people who have an autoimmune disease should not take it. It was then that I needed to talk to his new doctor to figure out if it was indeed a problem.
I sent an email, but the situation required a follow-up because the doctor may have needed to ask questions. She expressed that she gives Astragalus to many of her patients with autoimmune diseases and that it wasn't mushroom. Since he is having a problem with the mushroom in that supplement, she gave me an alternative to help work on his adrenals. I have not started him on it, but I will do so this weekend.
On another note, last Friday, he came home, and before dinner, he took his supplements, and as soon as they went down, they came back up. This was the first time he ever became sick in this capacity. He couldn't keep anything on his stomach. He also didn't understand the feeling he was having and would tell me his throat hurt when he was about to become sick again. The sickness only lasted that one night, but he was not feeling well for a few days afterward because there was no stimming whatsoever. He began to stim vocal just yesterday, but not physically. But yesterday, another thing happened, so I am writing this today. I had wanted to write sooner and never found the time, but I had to after this.
My daughters, one of my daughter's friends, and I went to the movies. When I left, Jordan was eating his dinner. Remember I said that Jordan comes to me when he takes his pills after dinner, but I wasn't going to be home for him to do that. So I informed him to go ahead and take his pills when it's time. Around 8:00, I got a call while in the movie theater. When I looked to see who it was, Jordan was the last person I expected. Maybe his father was calling me from his phone, but no, it was Jordan. When I said hello, he responded, " Hey, " as always when I call him. I asked him what he needed, and he said take pills. I told him to go ahead and take his pills. He said ok and hung up. I was surprised, but in my mind, I thought his father called me and gave him the phone. But when I got home, no one helped him make the call; he did it alone. I don't recall showing Jordan how to make a call. I call him so much that he knows which number is mine. But the fact that he called me, for the first time since he's had a phone for almost two years, has kept a smile on my face the entire night.
I have been trying to get back to where I was when I was taking my walks with God and praying for hours in the morning. I was able to do some this morning. I made a prayer call this morning due to an IEP meeting that didn't allow me to see any kids at the time of the call, and tonight, my son called me on his own. God hears me. Psalm 37:4 says, "Delight yourself also in the LORD, and He shall give you the desires of your heart."
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