Last weekend I cried – AGAIN!

I wasn’t sad – just overwhelmed, terribly proud, and immensely grateful .

Why?

Well, because my youngest son had a starring role in one of the Magical Musical performances his college had put on at  the theatre in the local town.

It was very professional – stage, curtains, lights, compere, the lot, and there were about 700 people in the audience.

So what’s the big deal?

Well, all the students had some form of disability.

My son has autism. He rarely ever speaks and when he does it’s usually only single words, so it came as a complete shock to many people at the college when he burst into song.

Jodi had the role of Bert, the jolly chimney sweep in Mary Poppins, and sang all the words in Chim  Chiminey at the right time, in the right order and even with the right accent.

It was brilliant!

Unfortunately, we weren’t allowed to take photographs  or videos, but his scene will be etched on my memory forever.

Many teachers and support staff came up to me afterwards and said they  had no idea he could “do that”.

That’s the thing isn’t it?

We all have hidden talents and it just takes the right environment and a little bit of encouragement to let them rise to the surface.

My son can do all sorts of things with the right support – just like the rest of us!

The money raised from the performance went towards  the college, the local life boat society, and the muscular dystrophy society , because one of the students, who had lodged in the same house as my son, recently died of the complaint.

It was very sad.

I’m so lucky. Autism is a terrible lifelong disability, but it’s not terminal.

Our health is something we can never take for granted. There are many things which can affect it as I know from personal experience.

Dangers lurk everywhere.

They’re hidden in your food, vaccines, skin care, household products, dental amalgams, and just about everywhere else you can think of.

People are becoming more aware though, especially with the popularity of videos and there are several videos around shedding light on different aspects of health.

One good youtube channel is Health Ranger 7 who covers topics I’m familiar with.  You can find him here -
http://www.youtube.com/HealthRanger7

His health videos can be seen here:

 http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=2F856F03238D7810

When  you have time you might want to check them out, and also grab a copy of my free skin care and dental buy amoxil amalgam reports, which you can get by clicking on the links down the right-hand side of this blog.

If you’re fast  and go along to DavidWalker’s 30th Giveaway before 16th May, you’ll be able to download them, and literally   thousands of dollars worth of free information and software as well.

Hope you’ll find them useful.

Take care

Jean Shaw

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