What is Leigh's?

What is Leigh's Syndrone? Our Journey Home blog explains it so well: Imagine a major city with half it’s power plant shut down, at best this would cause a major black out. Now imagine your body working only to one half, the brain is impaired, vision is dim, muscles twitch and you are weak and your muscles are too fatigued to walk, crawl, or write. Your heart is weakened and you are not able to digest your food. For a large number of people, especially children, this is a fatal disease. Leigh’s Disease is one of many recognized Mitochondrial Diseases. Leigh’s is a progressive neurometabolic disorder with a general onset in infancy or childhood, often after a viral infection, but can also occur in teens and adults. It is characterized on MRI by visible necrotizing (dead or dying tissue) lesions on the brain, particularly in the midbrain and brainstem. The child often appears normal at birth but typically begins displaying symptoms within a few months to two years of age, although the timing may be much earlier or later. Initial symptoms can include the loss of basic skills such as sucking, head control, walking and talking. These may be accompanied by other problems such as irritability, loss of appetite, vomiting and seizures. There may be periods of sharp decline or temporary restoration of some functions. Eventually, the child may also have heart, kidney, vision, and breathing complications. One estimate of the incidence of Leigh’s is one in every 77,000 births, however this may be an underestimate as mitochondrial diseases tend to be under-diagnosed or misdiagnosed. There is no cure for Leigh’s Disease. Prognosis is poor, depending on the defect individuals typically live anywhere from a few months, to a few years, to their mid-teens

Sunday, October 7, 2012

Sunny With A Chance Of Pancakes!!

Today was the Pancake Breakfast Fundraiser that Annie and Pappy's Sunday School Class hosted for me.
Lots of flapjacks were flipped and lots of love and smiles too!

The griddle is hot! (and the batter must be good)


Did someone say Bacon??


Waiting for the first wave of pancake eaters . . .


See? SMILES




Coffee Anyone?? Thank you Mr. Dan . . .

My Pappy

Our many many friends!!



My Annie!



More Smiles!!

Silly!

That pancake holds the butter and the syrup all in the center!!


Miss Sue had just stood up and was caught, for that split second, without her contagious smile!!
She is a mastermind of pancake breakfasts!!


Aunt Cindy

Sweet friends - the Dilts

"If food dropped like rain from the sky, wouldn't it be marvelous! Or would it? It could, after all, be messy. And you'd have no choice. What if you didn't like what fell?
Or what if too much came?
Have you ever thought of what it might be like
to be squashed flat by a pancake?"

Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs

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