Wednesday, April 29, 2009 Shailee's Update

I have called and checked on shailee a few times today, and she is doing ok. she is being given breathing treatments a little more regularly to help prevent her from having her spells, and so far it has been helping out alot. She is still just taking it easy and they are not doing alot to her because they are trying to get her healty enough to go to surgery. the geneticist's office called me today with some news from their further chromosome testing, and they are saying that the "unknown" addition that she has on one of her #5 chromosomes is actually some of the deletion from the other chromosome #5. so basically what i know is that part of one #5 deleted or broke off and attached to the other #5, so she still has the deletion, and she still has the cri-du-chat diagnosis, but she may not be missing as much as they once thought. they told me that they have no idea how this happened and they have never seen this before, so if this is going to help her or not in the end we wont really know until she is getting older and as she grows. but we will all hope for the best and hope that it will help her instead of work against her. they are planning to meet with us again soon to go over things with us in more detail, and as soon as that happens i will post more about this.