Rimland Center

I'm really excited tonight because we got an appointment for Nate at the Rimland Center. It's a new, state-of-the-art autism treatment center in Lynchburg, VA, the town where my parents live. Here's a news article about the center. Several of the doctors there are DAN! doctors, knowledgeable about biomedical treatments like diet change, supplementation, yeast treatment, etc. My mom attended the grand opening this past Saturday and relayed to me how wonderful the place seems. (An interesting note: one of the speakers at the open house was Dr. Houston, the creator of the enzymes we give Nate.) I downloaded and filled out the paperwork (30 pages!), faxed it to my mom, and she brought it to the center. We were praying that they would be able to take Nate some time during the week between Christmas and New Year's, since that is when we are already going to be in Lynchburg (airline tickets already bought). Today we found out that they are able to take us! I am thrilled and really anxious to get moving on these next steps for Nate.

Speaking of Nate, he is amazing me more every day. Today we were doing a puzzle together, and I asked him what one of the pieces was (it was the letter Y, with pictures of yarn on it). I have told him before that it is yarn, but it has been a long while--since before he was talking at all. He said, "Y ... is... yarn!" It's so cool to realize that, though he couldn't put any of the sounds together, he knew what it was, and now he totally remembers and is able to say the word without any prompting!