August 24, 2016

Our follow up with neurology for MRI. This appointment went better than we thought. Images of MRI show that structure of her brain is intact and the white matter is decreased. On a positive note Dr. Yu is very hopeful, as are we, that the white matter will continue to develop until age 3. Currently she is 14 months. Dr also believes there is no specific cause, and just something that happened during development. This abnormality explains all her motor delay in general. White matter controls all motor function from the smallest muscle coordination, such as smiling to gross motor as in crawling and walking. We have seen over the last few months that her motor planning isn't all the way there and she gets very frustrated because she knows what she wants to do, but can't physically do it. We requested her therapy to be upped to 4 times a week: 2 for physical therapy and 2 for occupational therapy. We will have a follow up MRI in 1 year.