Ella is six months already. There’s not much to report which on the one hand is good. No seizures or any crucial health issues. On the other, not much progress either. Ella remains very interactive but also very limited in her gross motor skills as Etan wrote last time. I hope the medication is partly responsible, after all, these medications subdue abilities. Also, it might be that the abnormal right hemisphere and the “noise” it emits, hinder the good left hemisphere. We just don’t know so it is very hard in that way.
We have no idea what Ella will be able to do when. I hope, between moments of frustration and disappointment, that once she has the hemispherectomy she’ll be able make good progress but, there are no guarentees. She has a whole repetoire now of “solid” foods that she eats: banana, potatoe, corn, cereal, apples, plus she’ll have a good breast feeding with a meal as well. It seems that her appetite has picked up.
It’s kind of amazing that we have been a whole six weeks without a hospital stay. Yeah!