Elsie Update

Elsie had another appointment with her neurologist today. Some of the tests have suggested that she may have a metabolic disorder. There are three main possibilities at this point, and we will be doing further testing to see if she has one of them. One of the tests requires her skin cells being sent to Amsterdam to the only lab in the world that runs the test.

So we are not expecting any immediate answers, but at least they seem to narrowing down the possible causes. Ironically it wasn't any of the tests that they ran during her hospital stay, but from a urine test we had done because her new medication makes her pee smell funny. It wasn't even the things they were testing for that showed up, but another aspect that happens to be part of the test. The neurologist said, "Sometimes persistence is better than smartness."