| Hannah was born on November 5, 2004. She weighed 7lbs and 5ozs. I took her
home from the hospital the very next day to go to my brother's wedding. In
December of 2004 she started have some reflux problems. So her doctor put her on
two medications for her acid reflux. Then a couple months later (in the spring)
she started wheezing a little and then we discovered that she also has asthma.
We then got a nebulizer and that pretty much had taken care of her asthma. Occasionally
we had to go to the doctor for really bad asthma attacks then she would go on
steroids for a couple of days and then be fine. Months went by and she was
developing normally until about September when she started pulling up on the
furniture. I kept telling myself she is going to be running around soon. Well in
December she got ear infection after ear infection and that is when I noticed
that she wasn't walking around the furniture anymore. So in January they
finally put tubes in her ears. After that I said that she is going to pick up
and go anytime now. Well it was two weeks after her surgery and she is not
even attempting to try to pull up or walk. So I made an appointment to take her
to her pediatrician. Everyone was saying that she is just being lazy she will do
it when she wants. Well On February 10, 2006
I brought Hannah to her doctor, the doctor did her exam on Hannah and she
said give me a minute I will be right back. Well she went to call a
neurologist to talk to him about Hannah. She finally came back in the office
and said her legs feel a little like jello and she has no reflexes in her legs
and a little in her arms. My heart sank. There can't be anything wrong with
Hannah. So I want to send you to get
some labs done at the hospital. Then I asked her what do you think it might be and
what are you testing for. She was testing to see if her bones are deteriorating
which is a CPK also she did a gene test. I asked why are you doing a gene test?
She said to test if she has Spinal Muscular Atrophy. I'm like what? What is
that? She basically said it is a muscle disease in her
legs right now. I panicked and started crying. The doctor and nurse were in the room
with me crying. Before I left the doctor told me that the CPK test
will come back in a day or so but the gene test would be about four to five
weeks I finally got calmed down and then went over to the hospital. I
called my husband on the way and he immediately left work and met me at the
hospital and so did my mom. Her CPK test came back and her muscles are not deteriorating. The whole four weeks was so depressing, finally on
Friday March 3, 2006 the doctor called me with the results. She said that the
gene test came back and she has Spinal Muscular Atrophy Type 2. |
