Comments for A Father Speaks

Comment on A boy and his dog by Jerry Russell

Jerry Russell — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 18:35:39 +0000

Always happy to share!

Comment on I like good news by Jerry Russell

Jerry Russell — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 18:35:24 +0000

It makes me smile regularly. Lately it seems he learns several new words each and every day. Progress is a good thing!

Comment on I like good news by Harold L Doherty

Harold L Doherty — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 14:13:37 +0000

“On the plus side, he’s advancing in language skills very rapidly.”

Outstanding. You must be very happy with that development.

Comment on A boy and his dog by Raven

Raven — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:53:58 +0000

Made my morning to see this. Thanks for sharing the warm fuzzles.

Comment on Doing well by Jerry Russell

Jerry Russell — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 19:27:39 +0000

I’ll do my best to start taking more pictures, baby. Right now just trying to make sure that I’m updating on the weekdays at least

Comment on Doing well by Jessica

Jessica — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:37:52 +0000

I would *love* to see pics of them playing with legos! I miss you guys so much and I’m so proud of how everyone has come together to help out lil B. Hopefully I’ll see you guys in only a couple of months…

Comment on Not every day can be perfect by Joan Nova

Joan Nova — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:55:31 +0000

Hi Jerry,
I did fundraising for a school for children with autism for a couple of years a while back and I saw firsthand the very real challenges placed on some families. I hope your little guy sees his way through the maze and continues to learn and progress. He’s got a good mommy and daddy to help him – that’s for sure!
Joan

Comment on Newsweek questions Oprah’s stand on health care, autism treatment and ethics by Corey Rabinowitz

Corey Rabinowitz — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 07:55:35 +0000

What a wonderful read this post was. Do you mind if I bookmark your site?

Comment on Newsweek questions Oprah’s stand on health care, autism treatment and ethics by Jennifer

Jennifer — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 01:23:45 +0000

Jessica,

It is completely irresponsible to be so flippant about having the measles, mumps and rubella. You are lucky that you are fine, but so many are not. Things don’t always get better and life doesn’t always go on. My cousin died from the measles. It caused him to go into a vegetative state at the age of 6 and he remained that way for the next 12 years until he finally died. It destroyed my aunt and uncle to have to watch their child grow into a man while lying motionless in a hospital bed.

I understand why you are angry and why you are looking for the cause of and a cure for the condition that ails your child. My son doesn’t have autism, but has other challenges and I am equally as passionate in my quest to help him get better. But emotion sometimes makes us lose sight of the facts. We see what we want to see and ignore facts that don’t fit into what we so desperately want to believe.

And in your quest to demonize vaccines and doctors for being “whores” to “Big Pharma” you are overlooking the fact that companies are also getting rich off of chelation therapies while countless families of autistic children are going broke from this snake oil.

Godspeed.

Comment on Newsweek questions Oprah’s stand on health care, autism treatment and ethics by Jerry Russell

Jerry Russell — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:09:04 +0000

Jessica,
I’m glad that your son is doing better, but I doubt highly the chellation has anything at all to do with that.

Yes, I’ve read the studies you mention. They are at best, pseudo-science and more accurately, science fiction.

What I think you should research is the history of the people and companies you are backing. they switch from condition to condition touting chellation as the answer until they are proven to be quacks, then wait a few years and announce they have found a breakthrough cure for the next hot-topic disease or condition. It’s crap, it’s been crap and it will remain crap; Nothing more than expensive promises to parents, loved ones and the afflicted.

You can promote these people all you want. I will stand on my side of the fence and oppose their methods. I do not agree with them. My son is improving using standard methods and has been immunized against everything he should have been. He was BORN autistic.

Best wishes for your child. I hope the improvements continue.