Speechless

Speechless and amazed I sat in the doctor's office today holding Bree on my lap. The doctor had just told us that her MRI looked perfect! He said there was a little bit of asymmetry with the two sides of the brain, but all within normal parameters and something he would expect to see in a normal human being.

I made sure that I asked in every possible way that it was fine. No evidence of brain bleeds? Nope! No evidence of damage from CPR twice? Nope! No evidence of damage from oxygen deprivation? NOPE! Okay. So....okay.

I am overjoyed (obviously) but slightly confused. That leaves us with no explanation for why she has such low muscle tone, and is a little bit behind physically in developmental standards. We are being sent for Bree to have some blood work done to make sure that there is nothing wrong with her genetic make up that would account for that. They will check her chromosomes to see if there are any abnormalities. I have a feeling that those are going to come back perfectly fine.

The doctor was just as confused as we were and made sure to run through her history with us to make sure he had the right kid. Born 15 weeks early? Yup! Grade III bilateral brain bleeds? Yup! CPR twice...once for 28 minutes? Yup! All he could say is "Well she sure is happy...interesting...it is rare to see a recovery like this."

He did say one thing that made perfect sense to me, and I agree with him in every way. "She is one lucky little girl..." YUP!

...and we are lucky to have her.