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Nicholas has gotten a little yeasty in the past week - we’ve had company, so he keeps stealing everyone’s sodas and by the time we’ve caught up to him, he of course has had way too much of it to drink.

Well, anyway - this past Friday, he was trying to tell me something and it wasn’t hard to tell he was stumbling over his words and that he was really having a hard time. He stopped mid-sentence and said, “mommy, give me back my voice. mommy, help me, I can’t talk”

I told him that mommy was working on it and that is what all of his vitamins were for - and that if he wants his voice back, he cannot drink soda as it makes him lose his voice and we would go get him his own special drink if he wanted.

We were stunned by this conversation. He has said things to me before that have made me know without a doubt that he knows what’s going on with him and how hard we’re working to set him free from all of this. But this just blew me away - and hearing him say it was joyful agony - truly. I was thrilled that he got it and sad for him all at the same time.

Nicholas, I promise you - I will give you back your voice (permanently) if it is the last thing i do.

Added July 26, 2009 - Tonight, Nicholas said - “Mommy, I got my voice back” - he was much clearer today (I upped his yeast protocol) and still his same typical happy chatty self.

Gender-selective toxicity of thimerosal.

ALL SEVEN MALE mice DIED while the females did not.
ALL SEVEN MALE mice DIED while the females did not.
ALL SEVEN MALE mice DIED while the females did not.
ALL SEVEN MALE mice DIED while the females did not.
ALL SEVEN MALE mice DIED while the females did not.
ALL SEVEN MALE mice DIED while the females did not.

Branch DR.
Departments of Medicine and Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. don.branch@utoronto.ca

“A recent report shows a correlation of the historical use of thimerosal in therapeutic immunizations with the subsequent development of autism; however, this association remains controversial. Autism occurs approximately four times more frequently in males compared to females; thus, studies of thimerosal toxicity should take into consideration gender-selective effects. The present study was originally undertaken to determine the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) of thimersosal in male and female CD1 mice. However, during the limited MTD studies, it became apparent that thimerosal has a differential MTD that depends on whether the mouse is male or female. At doses of 38.4-76.8mg/kg using 10% DMSO as diluent, seven of seven male mice compared to zero of seven female mice tested succumbed to thimerosal. Although the thimerosal levels used were very high, as we were originally only trying to determine MTD, it was completely unexpected to observe a difference of the MTD between male and female mice. Thus, our studies, although not directly addressing the controversy surrounding thimerosal and autism, and still preliminary due to small numbers of mice examined, provide, nevertheless, the first report of gender-selective toxicity of thimerosal and indicate that any future studies of thimerosal toxicity should take into consideration gender-specific differences.”

6,772,357,798 people on Earth, 20:49 GMT (EST+5) Jul 20, 2009/ http://www.census.gov/main/www/popclock.html

429 deaths, from 94,512 H1N1 cases, worldwide.
http://www.who.int/csr/don/2009_07_06/en/index.html

How is this a pandemic?

I usually wait a little while in between updates, but I don’t want to forget anything as we have been seeing amazing progress over the past few weeks….

Nicholas talked to a friend on the phone for the very first time yesterday. It was so amazing and adorable — and witnessing it almost made me cry. He was so excited when I said she was on the phone - he grabbed the phone right out of my hands, said hello and started telling her that he was coming to her birthday party and then launched into talking about balloons, decorations, presents, etc. He talked so fast, I am sure her little head was spinning. He actually got up and stopped playing on the computer to talk to her and proceeded to head upstairs with the phone. (something he has never done before) The length of his conversation was longer than any other he had ever had with grandparents, parents, etc. He actually asked her to come over and play - and I was soooo amazed by this, not to mention absolultely delighted.

At school, he is leaving the front of the line and heading towards the back so he can sit next to her and hold her hand. He’s socializing so much more, not just with her, but with his other classmates as well.

Ages ago, we showed Nicholas the Diego game for our Wii. It was hard to get how to use the controls, so we put it away. I brought it out last night and showed him a few things and in less than a minute he wanted to play. I barely had to show him anything! He got it and picked it up with amazing speed and accuracy. He knew what buttons to push, how to hold/shake the controller - and was doing excellent following the instructions on the screen when needed.

Last night, Nicholas said that “I gotta go get George, he’s outside” - to which I responded “George who? What are you talking about?” Nicholas said, “Curious George is outside, I have to get him” - we all looked at each other puzzled as to what he was talking about. Then it hit me, he was referring to his bubbling George that goes in the bathtub. “Nicholas, did you drop George out of the bathroom window?” “Yes” So I went outside and sure enough there was George dirty, scraped up and lying on the ground. So I brought him in and got out the bandages. I put a band-aid - a big one - on the back of his head, one on his elbow, etc. leaving some scratches and dirt visible on George. Right away, he noticed George had band-aids and said, “Oh, George has a boo-boo?” I said, “Yes, Nicholas George has a boo-boo. George has lots of boo-boos. When you dropped him out of the window, he really got hurt.” Nicholas quickly apologized to George and kissed his boo-boos. When I pointed out the scratches on George, I could tell Nicholas really felt bad that George was so hurt and apologized to him again.

Daddy and Grandpa have been doing some work around the house and Nicholas has really been amazing around this. I had visions of having to take him out of the house every day while they were working, but he’s been great. He will go check up on their work, grab a level or a tape measure and check up on them. He asks questions about what they are doing. He brings them their tools. I thought this could potentially be a nightmare - nothing could be farther from the truth.

Over the past couple of weeks, responding to “I love you Nicholas” with “I love you” has turned into “I love you too Mommy” - and he’s doing this with everyone, consistently. This is not something we have ever worked on - I was happy with hearing I love you.

His love for books and reading stories and listening to stories has really exploded. He’s picking stuff out in books and talking about it and ellaborating on it. He is very interactive when reading stories with us.

He has so much more language and more words. Sentence length has gotten longer too.

Added July 22, 2009: I almost forgot. Nicholas wanted to play doctor/patient — and his pretend play here just blew me away. Nicholas wanted to be the patient and wanted Dr Mommy to examine and treat him. So, he takes me to his bedroom and hops up on his bed like it’s an exam table. He has me check his ears, his throat, has me listen to his heart. Shows me his boo-boos and asks for bandaids. I took his temperature and even got him some lotion for his dry legs. The whole thing was amazing, very detailed and well thought out. We played for quite some time. I sent Dr Daddy in to play and the patient told him that he wasn’t a Dr and to ask Dr Mommy to come back. (HA! Smart kid - LOL)

http://mvvic.org/

Real doctors speaking the truth about vaccination.

Real scoop that vaccines have never erradicated anything… ever.

Real problems - autism is just the beginning.

Real immunity - vaccination is not immunity.

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In order to be able to just hand Nicholas 1 cap of dmsa and 1 cap of ALA, I increased his ALA to 25mg per dose from 20mg. This is so much easier now.

This one is a must read…

Julie Gerberding Now Officially a Paid Pharma Shill Withholding her Conflicts of Interest

I am sure the public feels reassured about the vaccine by seeing the familiar face of a public health official talking about “magic” vaccines.

Except that Dr. Gerberding is not a public health official any more. She is now a PR consultant.

Gerberding left CDC in January at the request of the Obama administration and subsequently went to work for the global giant PR firm Edelman as an “adviser on global health strategy”.

And Edelman represents PHARMA. And AstraZeneca, Novartis, Pfizer, Abbott Laboratories, and Johnson & Johnson.

And Merck.

Edelman gave us the “One Less” campaign.

Thank you, Ginger — well said!

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