Rhonda Spellman

OUR AUTISM STORY

OUR AUTISM STORY began in 2001… When my son Tanner was nearly two years old he changed from a happy-go-lucky talkative boy to a sullen child that I no longer knew. Here is Tanner, at one, in August, 2000, visiting grandma and grandpa in Massachusetts. Tanner started crawling at 5 months and walking at 9 months. He was happy and he loved the water! He had reacted with elevated temperatures to a few vaccines. He started having ear infections at 5 months, shortly after his “4 month shots.” I later learned that many vaccines contained thimerosal (49.6% ethyl-mercury), a neurotoxin. Then, when he had the MMR at 19 months, our life changed. His temperature shot up to  105° in two hours. Two weeks later his head tilted to the side. Two months later he quit talking. He started having ear infections that became nearly non-stop. He had 21 ear infections by the time he turned five! I took my son to 18 different doctors. I took him to specialists of all kinds. Not one doctor gave me hope. I started giving him natural enzymes, probiotics and immune builders. Tanner is almost four here. We were told, "He has an Autistic Spectrum Disorder" a few weeks later by a specialist at The Children's Hospital. He created his own language, mostly grunts. I became  "Mub." I returned to our pediatrician, desperate and confused. He was the only doctor who listened to me. I asked him to perform a DNA analysis to see if a genetic disposition had caused him to react so severely to … Read the Whole Story . . .