How Is Chas Doing?

(Chas's Brain in January 2008)

People ask me this all the time. I appreciate it so much.

He runs.
He swallows.
He talks.

That's what we wanted more than anything else a year ago.

He also wobbles a bit.
Pictures of his brain come quarterly and we watch vague fuzzy white matter.
He takes stairs one at a time.
I hope they will understand him when he starts Kindergarten. More than that, I hope he will not sound like a Kindergartner when he is 15.
And although he retained all of his left-handed sports maneuvers, his fine motor skills have all had to shift to right-handed.


MRI January 2008 --------------------------MRI March 2009

Dr. Cochrane's direct quote is: "This is the only area on one slice that we will be watching. See you in 6 months for repeat study– no need to come in on Monday"