I have decided to bring you all on this journey with Charlotte, Giovanni, Benicio and I. It will be a long, tough road but if it works, we will get our son back. This is the last and final option for us since we have tried anything and everything to end the seizures that are debilitating Gio. We can only hope this diet works.
It's called the Ketogenic Diet and when you first hear about it, you are left scratching your head. How can you trick the body into starvation but feed it so much fat and protein while nearly eliminating all carbs? The New York Times published a great article about this a few weeks ago. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/21/magazine/21Epilepsy-t.html
That will explain a lot to many of you and will help as you travel with us for the next three years - 3 years if the diet actually starts to work.
For anyone who doesn't know our story, I invite you to go to our website, http://www.giosgarden.org/ and read his story and more about the non-profit we created to help special needs children in our area. I will often mention Gio's Garden on these pages...but this will mostly about Gio's life on the diet and how we as a family are making it work.
I will be posting pictures and videos here of Gio as we progress and there will be a lot of thoughts and ramblings...that's how I work.
I can only hope that you will follow us on the journey. It's been one week and 3 days we've been on it and we are already seeing things happen.
But that will be for another post. For now...welcome!
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