Eliza Update

Eliza's neurologist called me this week with some (what I feel is) great news. He confirmed what we already know about Eliza's heterotopia, that it is there and we know nothing more about it until a repeat MRI in a few years. The slowness in the back of her brain, he said, comes from the cerebellum. The cerebellum is the smaller "brain" looking part of the brain in the back of the head. It has small folds of brain matter and the thing that was noticed about Eliza's cerebellum is that she has many more folds than a normal cerebellum. So her Dr said that he doesn't exactly know what that means in regards to Eliza's future. He didn't seem overly concerned because she is meeting all of her milestones and seems to be developing right on track. He mentioned that a concern would have been if the cerebellum was underdeveloped, or too small. In cases such as those is where studies have shown slowness with physical and mental development as well as speech. He was pretty confident that a deformity, such as Eliza's, is a genetic issue and will be in contact with her geneticists. We meet with her neurologist in two weeks and her geneticists a few days after. I'm looking forward to learning more about the inner workings of this little brain and even deeper workings of her genes.

Eliza showing off her new swimming attire, she was obviously very excited! Haha.