Walk for Autism

[Kat]

April is Autism Awareness Month. On Friday, April 2, 2010 (Autism Awareness Day) I joined a group from Autism Speaks on the NBC morning news to do the Friday dance with weatherman Andy Avilos and friends. Although you I'm in back and you can’t see my face or my wonderful attempt at doing the limbo under the Autism Speaks banner, I’m on TV doing the Friday dance!

Please support our family as we raise funds for a very worthy organization that is doing very important work helping families, promoting awareness and funding critical research. The walk takes place on Saturday, May 15 and is a fairly short 5K walk (~ 3 miles) around Soldier Field in Chicago. There will be lots of family friendly activities going on and Rashied Davis of the Chicago Bears will be there also.

As you may know, my son Sean is affected by autism. He faces many challenges and is working hard to overcome them. We don’t know if he will ever be able to live independently. Hopefully, a cure will be found in his lifetime. With your support, he and others like him may be able to overcome this mysterious condition and lead normal lives. This walk is an opportunity for you to be part of this exciting quest to cure, or at least treat, those afflicted with autism.

Please consider supporting our team with a donation! http://www.walknowforautismspeaks.org/chicago/katdaddy9

Thanks so much!

Kat

[CNA]

April is Autism Awareness Month. On Friday, April 2, 2010 (Autism Awareness Day) I joined a group from Autism Speaks on the NBC morning news to do the Friday dance with weatherman Andy Avilos and friends. Although you I'm in back and you can’t see my face or my wonderful attempt at doing the limbo under the Autism Speaks banner, I’m on TV doing the Friday dance!

Please support our family as we raise funds for a very worthy organization that is doing very important work helping families, promoting awareness and funding critical research. The walk takes place on Saturday, May 15 and is a fairly short 5K walk (~ 3 miles) around Soldier Field in Chicago. There will be lots of family friendly activities going on and Rashied Davis of the Chicago Bears will be there also.

As you may know, my son Sean is affected by autism. He faces many challenges and is working hard to overcome them. We don’t know if he will ever be able to live independently. Hopefully, a cure will be found in his lifetime. With your support, he and others like him may be able to overcome this mysterious condition and lead normal lives. This walk is an opportunity for you to be part of this exciting quest to cure, or at least treat, those afflicted with autism.

Please consider supporting our team with a donation! http://www.walknowforautismspeaks.org/chicago/katdaddy9

Thanks so much!

Kat

Thank you for posting this, Kat. There's a lot going on where I live as well, many activities. I hope your baby is hanging in there esp with the OT stuff and your perseverance with it and your son's. Chris is doing so much better now, although a long hard road this past 1 to 1.5 years and the battle but seems to be drawing to some type of closure soon which I am very grateful for finally. He's in such a wonderful school now and he loves it there!!! He started back up in Feb of this year and then I transferred him out to this other school. The progress at this other school he's made has been astounding but there are many challenges for him as well. What I know of your baby it sounds like his prognosis is good, although may need help with some things here and there as he gets older. Both of our babies will ultimately be fine, esp when they have strong moms, a strong mom you are!!!

Angie

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

Well, we did it this morning.

We survived.

Michael