Buzzy

Why have I started this blog?  Quite simply - Preston Michael Tresnak or as we call him Buzzy.  Here he is in a picture with his sister from the Summer of 2013.  Buzzy was born in June of 2010.  My wife noticed that his speech was not progressing.  At age one he had no words.  At age two he really had no words.  What was going with our Buzzy?  He started having speech therapy with limited success.  In the fall of 2012 we sought out the advice of a pediatric specialist.  At that time we received the diagnosis that our Buzzy had Autism.  What to do now?  In the traditional medical field the only answer is various behavioral type therapies.  For my wife and me that was not good enough.

My wife (who will never ever give up on our Buzzy) who used to be a chemistry teacher, started doing research.  What her research told her was that the diagnosis of Autism was not the end, but the beginning.  She asked many questions and determined that we were going try anything and everything to help and fix our Buzzy.  Every day I thank God for blessing me with such a wonderful wife.  Because of her we have had the progress we have had with Buzzy.

What did we do first - eliminate dairy and gluten from his diet.  Was this working or not?  After about six weeks of this, Buzzy ate some gluten and dairy.  The next day he was stimming and off the wall.  There was our answer - gluten and dairy appeared to be a problem.

Candace sought out a specialist to help us through this journey.  That specialist was Dr. Usman in Naperville.  Through her work and through many things that my wife had researched, we found that there could any number of things that could be contributing to Buzzy's Autism.  We followed the advice of Dr. Usman's practice and we started seeing positive results.  We also started ABA in January of 2013.

Fast forward to now.  In the last year Buzzy has started to talk and can use full sentences.  He has become more social.  Do not get me wrong, Buzzy is not cured.  We still have a long way to go.  We will never, ever give up on our Buzzy.  The good news is that we have had success.

I hope to use this blog to discuss the various treatments that we have used with Buzzy and let the reader know how they have worked.  In an earlier blog I talked about how I feel Autism is a symptom.  I believe that more and more every day.  Autism does not just happen - there has to be a cause.  If we can determine the cause, maybe we can develop a solution.  Feel free to leave comments.

I hope that this blog is helpful and also give anyone who knows or has an autistic child hope.