Genes, Genes the Musical Fruit

We had our Geneticist appointment on Monday and we were able to travel back to the big city (Charlottesville) yet again. We met with the whole medical team of geneticist, all the way down to the medical student. Daniel was a good sport even though he was exhausted from waking up so early to drive there. Yes, I admit it was my fault for making the appointment for 9 am.

We basically found out nothing again and they even had nothing for us to do. What they need...you guessed right, they need to have the records from UNC to see what genetic studies have been done there so as not to repeat those. Then, after they get those results, they would like to take more blood (why they couldn't do it on Monday is beyond me) to run more tests including one that identifies over 100 potential causes for Daniels condition. Including but not limited to Prader-Willi, Downs and on and on. Lovely. So, looks like we get to go back to the big city soon and get the blood drawn and then wait wait wait for those results.

Sometimes the more you dig, the more you find you need to dig.

On a lighter note, has anyone read about this: http://musicophilia.com/? It is that same doctor who brought us Awakenings, you know with Robin Williams. I really want to get my hands on this book and maybe see if I can e-mail this guy. Really interesting stuff and without telling Daniel anything about it, he seems to have figured it out for himself:

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