Geneticist Visit

 The genetics visit went very well! Adi enjoyed the attention and even coaxed an iPhone from one of the residents. :)

In short, we have noticed that Adi blanks out every so often, and I will need to take her to get an EEG to rule out absence seizures. I will also need to take Adi for an MRI (not excited!) to scout out her brain in general and check for a tumor in specific (definitely not excited!) It might be a tumor causing the seizures, if that's what they are.

I decided to look through videos of Adi over the past year and a half or so and see if I could notice the spacing out episodes. Here's what I got. In most of them I turned the camera off as soon as she started spacing, because I didn't want to get a video of her doing nothing. But in some, I captured it in full.

I posted this video before, but now it's bigger and easier to see. I think I'll be using YouTube for videos till Google starts making big videos for Blogger as well.
Adi, 2.5, is showing off her words and then spaces out at the end.


Adi at 2 years old, trying to put on her brother's slipper over her shoe. :D Same zoning out at the end.


Adi swinging, almost 3 years old.
Zoning out episode, possible absence seizure. It begins at 16 seconds and ends when Adi snaps back at 20 seconds and says Mama.


Zoning out episode from 34-39 seconds in the video. What characterizes these episodes is that when she gets back, she does something active, like calling out for me, or in this case, jump-walking. Almost 3 years old.


Boys ask Adi (almost 2) questions and she repeatedly spaces out and comes back with a jerk.
The first 20 seconds she goes in and out a few times, then joins her brothers' game with gusto.
1:11 - 1:24 is the second episode. 2:09 - 2:11 again.