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<h2>Our Families: Helena Prosser</h2>
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<p>
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<img src="<?php echo $this->site ?>pictures/helenap/portrait.jpg" class="portrait" />
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I was born on November 12th 1993. I am an only child, and I live with my
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Mum, and my grandparents in Oamaru, in the South Island of New Zealand.
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</p>
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<h3>Early Days</h3>
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<p>
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I wasn't breathing at birth, which was an indication of existing injury
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although I was 10.5lb, and a good colour. At three weeks old, after
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recovering from the excessive application of sedatives given in hospital in
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the first 48 hours, I finally woke up and started screaming, which I did
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nearly constantly for the next five months, all day and three or four hours
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each night. Sorry, Mum!
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</p>
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<h3>Onset of Seizures</h3>
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<p>
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<img src="<?php echo $this->site ?>pictures/helenap/thumb_scan0008.jpg" class="intext-img-right" />
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At the age of five months, coming along with my first two teeth I began
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having seizures. On that first day I had 12 seizures, lasting ten minutes
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each. At least when having my seizures I didn¹t scream! I¹m not sure what¹s
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worse. My seizures continued in varying intensity, frequency and duration
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every day of my life excepting one year at the age of seven, which was
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seizure free. Mercifully, and thanks to my home program at the time of
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writing (April 2005) I have not had a seizure since February 21st 2005!
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</p>
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I slowly became less agitated, so that by a year old, although still heavily
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seizuring, I was much calmer. I was however completely non-responsive,
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showed no ability to move independently, nor interact with anyone in my
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environment.
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</p>
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<h3>What can we Do? The Institutes</h3>
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My Mum had been searching for treatment with no success, until when I was
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year old she and Nana discovered The Institutes For The Achievement For
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Human Potential.
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I went to The Institutes for The Development Of Human Potential, in
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Melbourne Australia, where the extent of my injury was discovered.
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</p>
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<img src="<?php echo $this->site ?>pictures/helenap/thumb_scan0001.jpg" class="intext-img-left" />
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I was diagnosed with profound, diffuse, bilateral midbrain injury. It was
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shown that I was both blind and deaf, with poor sensation: hypersensitive
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(oversensitive) in some areas, and hypo (under-sensitive) in others.
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</p>
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<p>
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So at 15 months of age I began the Institutes' (Australia) intensive
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program, working seven days a week and 12 hours a day. Over the next five
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years I worked extremely hard with re-assessments every six months, and a
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change in program, to accommodate the changes in my development.
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I made some wonderful and extraordinary changes during this time. Sight,
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hearing and feeling much improved. I learned to read, and do maths, and I
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was gaining a good understanding of the world around me. Though my
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sensation was still varied, it was less so.
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</p>
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At six years old it was becoming obvious that though the change was good, it
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wasn¹t fast enough, and the decision was made to take me to the Institutes
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in Philadelphia, in order to access the latest research information, and
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training.
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<img src="<?php echo $this->site ?>pictures/helenap/thumb_scan0002.jpg" class="intext-img-right" />
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</p>
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<h3>The Institutes in Philadelphia - my Big Program</h3>
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<p>
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Six months after starting with <a title='IAHP' href="http://www.iahp.org">IAHP</a>
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in Philadelphia, and at the age of seven
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I went on to an 18 hours a day program of respiratory patterning. Within
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three months my seizures had stopped for the first time since I was five
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months old. This was a huge time of change for me, because it also saw my
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face relax from its permanent frown, and the emergence of what my Mum calls
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the most beautiful smile in the world! I started making soft sounds which
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everyone said were lovely, and gained some small movements.
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</p>
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<h3>Progress</h3>
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Over the next five years my vision and hearing improved enormously, and my
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intellectual development was profound. Today I speed-read adult level
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books, I do university level mathematics, and I have a vast intellectual
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knowledge of the world. I have a great love of music, and enjoy a range of
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styles.
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<img src="<?php echo $this->site ?>pictures/helenap/thumb_scan0013.jpg" class="intext-img-left" />
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</p>
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I have always been given an excellent diet, combined with my physiological
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program, I have been able to avoid serious illness altogether. I have had a
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few head colds over the years, but nothing out of the ordinary. Medical
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prognosis was for multiple hospitalizations, chest infections and surgery.
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So far I have avoided all of these, apart from a period of dental surgery,
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due to hypoplastic teeth. (Better than real plastic!)
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</p>
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<h3>Complications</h3>
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In November 2004, shortly after turning eleven, it was discovered that I
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have a liver dysfunction, and a number of blood disorders. It was decided
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that whilst these problems were being dealt with, I would not return to the
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Institutes in Philadelphia, but I would be given time to be treated, and
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recover without the stress of a physical program demanding all my efforts.
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</p>
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<h3>ABR</h3>
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Early on in this time my Mum was impressed by a new program which had been
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recommended by other families. So Mum and I traveled to Singapore in March
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2005 for an <a title='ABR' href="http://www.abrbelgium.com">ABR</a> assessment.
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<a title='ABR' href="http://www.abrbelgium.com">ABR</a> allows the rest time that I require for my
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recovery, as it is passive for me, but it is also turning out to be quite a
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positive force for me, offering more answers than were originally sought
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</p>
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<h3>Progress with ABR</h3>
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<p>
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<img src="<?php echo $this->site ?>pictures/helenap/thumb_scan0004.jpg" class='intext-img-right' />
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<a href="http://www.abrbelgium.com">ABR</a> allows me the time to rest that I require for my recovery
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from my liver complaints, as it is passive for me. <a title='ABR' href="http://www.abrbelgium.com">ABR</a> is also turning out to be quite a
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positive force in our lives, offering more answers than were originally
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sought.
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</p>
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<p>
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This is what Mum says about me: "Helena is a co-operative and gentle child,
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who is very sensitive to others' distress. She has a ready smile, and is
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beginning to giggle and laugh."
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</p>
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<h3>Updates for Helena:</h3> |