Praise Be to God! We did receive Rebecca's EEG results in the mail and the findings were normal. It came with some mixed feelings. On one hand, praising God that this will rule out any obstruction in her brain that may be causing the limited function, on the other hand what does this mean as the next step?
We meet with Rebecca's therapist, Dr. Melissa, and she said normal just means normal and that it rules out anything structural in her brain. However, it doesn't rule out that the nerves are firing as they should be.
We are still waiting for the results from the neurophyschologist and his conclusions. From what I have read so far and from reading her birth records. Rebecca had tachycardia, hypoxemia, neonatal sepsis and signifacant coput or fluid on her brain. And her blood pH was low. All of these are indicators for lack of oxygen at birth which altered the development of her brain, thus resulting in a learning disability. The neuropsychology report should have more information. But at this point, we are staying on the non-verbal learning disability track and working with social services through the school.
The past few weeks there have been some ups and downs. It is clear that any change to her environment is extremely overwhelming for her and she can not cope with it. It is a blessing to be able to explain the down days she had to Dr. Melissa and have her explain to us what it was in Rebecca's perspective relating to the nonverbal learning disability. As we learned, any change to her environment, even a change of seats in her classroom, is enough to throw her off. Because she cannot visual see where she fits into the classroom, let alone where everyone else does. She knew what was before the change, but then move it all around without warning and her "coping " mechanisms (what little she has) have been depleted.
So the next waiting period will be for the neuropsychology report. Please continue to pray for the right direction in addressing Rebecca's individualized needs. Pray for coping mechanisms to help with her heightened anxiety. Thank you for all of your support and asking how Rebecca is doing!
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Love,
Rachel
