It’s a big challenge: To love a child that doesn’t “connect” to you nor to anybody else. To respect something you don’t understand. To create a warm, wholehearted attachment to somebody who doesn’t seem to want it, and who makes you, by all your natural inclinations, feel very sad and uneasy.

Thanks to Dr. Karl Ludvig Reichelt, at Rikshospitalet in Oslo, we count ourselves among the luckiest of parents today.
When our son was eight years old, we learnt about a “new” treatment option that seemed too simple to be true. We were sceptical, we hesitated, but we tried it. After that, we’ve never looked back, without shuddering at what we would have missed, if we hadn’t grabbed that opportunity.

We haven’t “got our son back”. We’ve got him forward. Not to where he would have been if he had not become ill, wherever that would have been. But he’s come a long, long way in our direction. He “connects”. He relates happily and easily to almost anybody. He plays. He speaks. He even works. He’s toilet trained. He feels pain and love, and tells us about it. He’s no longer a scary stranger, but the most genuinely honest, positive person we know. There is no evil in him.

How did it happen ? Read on at http://www.internationallaw.no/GFCF_results