Glynis' posts with tag: autism
This weekend is turning out to be the biggest weather situation so far this year. According to the latest reports, the winter storm warning is in effect until Sunday morning...churches may even end up cancelling services. More than a foot of snow is expected...but that's not the worst of it. The wind is supposed to pick up and the blowing snow around here can be absolutely blinding.
I thought I'd get to the gym before the weather got bad. It started to snow, but it appeared light. At around 11am I headed out and after just a couple of minutes, I turned around and came back. People were sliding all over the place...me included. All it took was one good slide for me and I decided that working out at home was a much better idea.
I may crawl out of here and get some "snowed-in supplies." More toilet paper. Milk. A movie or two.
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The government has agreed to pay the family of an autistic girl compensatory funds from money set aside for those injured by vaccinations. According to Newsnet5, "The parents of the 9-year-old Georgia girl described Thursday how their hearts were broken as they watched her deteriorate into an irritable, odd-behaving toddler after she got several childhood shots.Terry Poling of Athens, Ga., the girl's mother, said in a news conference that suddenly, her daughter was no longer there.Poling and her husband, Jon, said their daughter, Hannah, has been diagnosed with autism.The Polings said five simultaneous vaccinations in July 2000 led to Hannah's autistic behavior. She was about 18 months at the time."
The government consistently denies any fault with the vaccinations - Thimerosol, a mercury-based vaccine preservative, used to be in the MMR vaccine and others. It's still in that stinking worthless flu vaccine (at least this year's vaccine turned out to be worthless).
Therefore, I think it is very, VERY interesting that they paid up in this case. This girl had asympotomatic mitochondrial dysfunction and studies need to be done to see how the toxins entering the body through these vaccines will affect a child with these disorders. HERE'S the TWENTY MILLION DOLLAR QUESTION: if it is asymptomatic, how will one know if the child has a mitochondrial disorder...and if the vaccinations are pushed, pushed, pushed at the parents...how can this be prevented? A study in Portugal shows that at least 5% of autistic individuals tested at some sort of mitochondrial disease. I think that's probably just the tip of the iceberg.
A fantastic website to learn more and stay informed is Autism Speaks.
My friend, Kathy, had a son, Ryan... he was developing perfectly normally. That is, until, the MMR shot he received at 18 months old. He became a different child. The hell that their family has been through since that dark day is incomprehensible.
My Aunt Candy, also has a son around the same age... he, too, was a beautiful, healthy baby boy who was right on target developmentally until the dark day they went for that MMR shot at around 15 months of age. He is not as terribly damaged as Ryan, but the effects have been just as devastating on my aunt and her husband.
I really fear for my daughter and the choices she will have to make in having her baby immunized. I know for sure she's going to avoid the trendy crap - Hepatitis B, Hib, chicken pox, that new (and dangerous) rotovirus vaccine, HPV. She's going to insist on the dead polio vaccine, might take the "P" out of the DTP, because we know too many children who have gotten very ill from that. I just shudder at that thought of what she & her husband will be going through as they make these decisions. You don't want your child to catch any of these horrible diseases... however, sometimes the preventative measures are just too dangerous themselves. Some are unnecessary.
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Today's workout: 1 hour of P90X Kenpo (it's a kickboxing program). It involves 12 minutes of a mostly yoga warmup, then 48 minutes of kicking, punching, jabbing, etc. Every few minutes you have to do a ton of jumping jacks and plyo jacks. 20 minutes of Leg Day, consisting of two supersets and a series of reverse lunges. After the Kenpo, I needed to keep the weights light.
front squat 15/40/3
duck walk 16/40/3
deadlift 15/40/3
back squat 20/40/3
sumo squat 20/40/3
Bulgarian split squats 24/3
reverse lunges 20/3
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Even more completely irrelevant... LOST has gotten good again. I'm still happy-dancing because I predicted way, way back in the begining that there was electro-magnetic business going on, like in the Philadelphia and Montauk Experiments in the 40s. Yep, and now I'm right...and loving it.
I also have to say that YEAH, Sayid has been a few episodes lately and, mmmm, I like him better than Sawyer even. :)
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