Mito

We saw Dr. M today... Just as I suspected all her blood work indicates mito (mitochondrial disease). Her liver enzymes are still elevated too, which is not a surprise. The only way to confirm this is another liver biopsy which we have scheduled right after the holidays. Poor punkin this will be her 3 rd time put to sleep in 4 months. The good news is her muscle strength seems normal so no muscle biopsy will be needed! Also that gives me hope this disease is contained to her liver. This appointment her liver wasn't enlarged but it was hard and Areli has been scratching herself which means her liver isn't working too well.

If the biopsy comes back positive, which we suspect, we will see Dr. V a mito specialist at Children's who already has been consulted to about Areli. It seems like all the doctors have been meeting about her because she is such a puzzle. You don't want to be that patient who gets VIP treatment, yet if you have something wrong its nice to have the VIP.

There are hundreds of mito diseases so it will be Dr. V's job to figure out exactly which one and then we will know if we will need to test Leilani, Areli's older sister. (Who has been healthy so far her whole life). Just to be safe.

SO BRING ON THE BIOPSY!! We're gonna get through this together!