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Maria Rickert Hong October 1, 2014

An Autism Mom with Cancer Needs Our Help

Being an autism mom is extremely stressful. It’s like having PTSD: Perpetual Traumatic Stress Disorder.

Unfortunately, all that stress can really do a number on mom’s health.

One of our own, Melanie Baldwin, aka “Booty Kicker” from The Thinking Moms’ Revolution, now suffers liver, spine, and bone cancer in her other hip after already surviving breast and bone cancer.

She and her profoundly autistic son need our help. As she struggles to overcome her current issues, her severely affected son, Luke, still requires 24/7 care and attention. He is self-injurious and quite ill, suffering the lingering effects of severe autism.

Click here to donate: http://tinyurl.com/njeq66s

All funds raised will go directly to assist Melanie and her family.

Filed Under: AUTISM / PDD-NOS, BREAST CANCER, CANCER, ENDOCRINE ISSUES, HEALTH TOPICS, NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS, OTHER DISEASES Tagged: Thinking Moms' Revolution

Maria Rickert Hong February 7, 2013

I AM A THINKING MOM

Maria Rickert Hong Here’s a recent blog I wrote for the Thinking Moms’ Revolution, a very outspoken group of moms of autistic children who question the current medical paradigm.

Because traditional doctors and their medicine weren’t helpful in the recovery of my sons from Sensory Processing Disorder, asthma, allergies, acid reflux and eczema, I was forced to become a Thinking Mom and to learn to think for myself to recover them.

Here’s an excerpt: “The first red flag was his incessant projectile vomiting, something the pediatricians waved off as colic and “he’ll outgrow it”.

As Thinking Moms know, this would be a recurring theme. Next came his refusal to eat most solid foods, again dismissed by multiple pediatricians.”