Planning Mark Yu’s return trip to China!
I’m Julie Yu,Mark Yu’s Mother.Mark is a 6 year old energetic and super cute kid who happens to also be autistic. Mark was diagnosed with Autism when he was about to turn three years old.Mark’s main problems are his ability to communicate verbally.He does have some spontaneous langauge and alot of prompted langauge.Technically he has speech apraxia. With the communication problem follows the socialization issues.Mark,also was on a very limited diet which consisted of Mcdonalds chicken Mcnuggets,toast and rice milk.
When we were given the diagnosis of Autism for Mark my husband who is also a chiropractor and specializes in Orthomolecular medicine and alternative medicine put Mark on a cleansing protocol to get rid of all the heavy metals and mercury from the immunizations that he received up until he was 15 months old.Mark’s system is relatively clean,he is on daily supplements to keep his system clean and strong from enviromental elements.
We have Mark in a specialized school specificlly for autistic children.The program is awesome,it’s very structured and they focus on speech,OT,life skills,community skills and educational skills.Our hope for Mark is that he will be mainstreamed in to the public school system.If that does not happen I am confident that this school will bring his full potential out for all too see.
We are not relying on just the school to help Mark.Mark is one of the busiest persons I know.He works harder than alot of adults I know. Mark goes to The help Group (his school) for 6 hours a day Monday through Friday and he has private speech 4 times a week after school and then he has in home therapy for 2 hours when we get home,(Monday through friday).He does do fun stuff too…he does gymnastics on the weekends.He loves going to the beach and playing in the ocean.
We also have been taking Mark to Mexico once a month (for a week) for the past 7 months to do dolphin therapy. It is absolutely amazing…..it has helped Mark so much.After one week with the dolphin Mark was so much more relaxed and more focused.Everyone saw noticable changes in him so we decided to go every month for a while to see what would happen.Mark loved going to see the dolphins.He became friends with one particular dolphin named Nouba. You could see the bond building!
I belive that you can never do too much for your children,especially children with special needs.My husband had been researching stem cells and what they could possibly do for Mark.He did his homework and found China Stem Cell.Mark and I went to China over the summer,June through July.Mark had 6 stem cell treatments. He was initially scheduled for 5 treatments but we added one more when he completed the 5Th one.We saw amazing changes in Mark after the first treatment.Within 3 days of the first injection,Mark was noticably MORE FOCUSED than before.He was more intent on trying to use his words and when we were trying to prompt his langauge it was much clearer and his eye contact improved significantly.My husband and I were so excited…we were hopeful that something positive would happen for Mark but we did not expect it to happen so quickly.We still have a long way to go with Mark but to see the changes that we witnessed is very exciting.Mark also became the social butterfly at the hospital……he always loved being around other kids (parrallel play) but he never actually played with them before.Mark started going up to the other kids that were there for treatment also and iniating play.He would grab their hands and say “Lets go!!!”. He wanted to play chase and run laps around the floor! It was so awesome to watch!! He has NEVER done that before.To see your child making friends and having fun all on there own without you having to step in and force it is sooo wonderful. It’s definitely a moment of happiness for my son and for me as a mom.
It takes about 6 months for the full effects of the stem cells to emerge in the body.We are in month 2…..we are hoping to see more improvement in the next 4 months.A lot can happen in that time.We have seen enough positive changes in Mark that we have decided to go back to China in February and do 6 more treatments. That means a month away from friends and family and life as we know it in the states but it’s also a month away that can mean a whole new world opening up for Mark. We will do whatever it takes to give Mark the best opportunities to be the very best he can be!!
I will check back in later to update everyone on Mark’s progress.Blogging is very new to me so I hope I was understood! Everyone be safe and dont give up hope!
Mark’s Mom
Julie:)
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