...20lbs since starting Fit 4 Autism. My doctor today,said I have made a complete turn around since the beginning of the year. I am medication free and aside from my much improved diet and fish oil, multi-vitamins and a few other natural supplements my doctor recommended, I'm good to go. I couldn't believe it when they told me how much I have lost. I don't weigh myself I just count the kcal's I burn. I weigh more then the typical person with my frame because of the years and years of body building. My doctor said most of my weight is muscle but I still need to lose more fat. So my goal is to try to lose another 20lbs by the new year. That give me a smidge less then 3 months.…

I go to the doctors this morning. I pick the van up by noon and we are supposed to speak with Gavin's doctor today and I think we are going to look for discharge. We were able to rule out any and all life threats and everything else is untreatable. He is getting picked on and desperately wants to come home.  In my mind he was only there because we needed to know what was going in with the movements. We needed them to address any conditions that may endanger his life. We know we can't treat the voices and we are prepared to find other means of addressing those. Biofeedback has been suggested by Akron as a way to teach Gavin to control voices as well as movements. No…

Those of you that know us know that we love are kids. Those of you that have been with us a while (years) know what we have been through and the lengths we have gone to for our kids, especially Gavin. That being said, I think we have reached the point now where we have begun failing. We can't seem to get anything done or remember to do anything besides the very basics. We met with a social worker at Akron Children's today. We are of course starting over again. They don't know us from the next family. They may be used to dealing with a certain type of parent. You can see the "client el" during visiting hours. It becomes pretty clear that some of these poor kids are products of…

We are going to be seeing Gavin this afternoon. We are meeting with the doctors at Akron Children's to discuss what we are going to do. Hopefully his stay won't be as long as expected... Please say a prayer...

All that is wrong is a sensor broke. They are fixing it for free.  I have to bring the van back on a day where we have nothing going on. So that's where we are with that.

Emmett John and I did the steps at the Monument. We did the steps 4 times and then the hill 3 times. Also we did the other stairs around the monument because Emmett wanted too do all the steps. Eventually sut of the GPS and stopped tracking. This is great phys ical therapy for Emmett John and I think I will try to get him out there a few times a week.

So the Fit 4 Autism team has some AMAZING news. We have acquired some new members and now the Fit 4 Autism team has accumulated 9599.46km or about 6000 miles. How awesome is that... I want to thank everyone for helping to bring attention to Autism and the health and fitness needs of the special needs parents. If you are interested in joining and showing support while getting healthy click here for more information.

Got Elliott off to school. He didn't want to go and who has school on Columbus Day anyway... The check engine light is on so the van has to go back in this morning. Lizze has a doctors appointment this morning as well. Have to drop her off then go to Waterloo Transmission. Then I have to pick Lizze up and hopefully I'll have the van back to do that with. Lizze is going to go meet the doctors at Akron Children's and I am going to walk with Emmett John to the school to pick up Elliott and then figure out how to get them home. The main concern for today is one of us getting to Akron. If the van isn't safe then I'm not sure what we…