MAY 12, 2009

Happy 6th Birthday Nicholas! We love you so much! Nicholas celebrated his 6th birthday with friends and famiy on his actual birthday May 9th. It was at the Bounce U at his request as it is a familar place to him and he had a blast. I was very worried that he would not...

APRIL 15, 2009

Lots of updates from the last post. Where do I start…… We recently had two doctor appointments last week. The first was a 3 hour ophthalmology appointment at Children’s hospital in Boston.  A VEP test done (Visual Evoked Potential Test) in which electrodes were placed...

MARCH 24, 2009

Nicholas is doing well. Check out this picture of him on his bike.  I did not think he could a ride a bike. He jumped on his bike and rode down the driveway faster than I could say “NO!”. I could not believe it.   Next see him back at soccer. We have missed 6...

February 20th We are home!

Wow what a week…or actually 3 weeks. Nicholas has been very sick for the past three weeks with many more seizures.  It was a difficult time for all of us. We thought the increase seizures were from a virus, levocarnatine or even a possible bacterial infection. The...

FEBRUARY 1, 2009

We learned on Thursday January 22 at Mass General Hospital in Boston that Nicholas has classic late infantile  NCL.  He has a defect in the gene CNL2, which impairs the production of the enzyme TPP1. We were prepared for the information but I did find it a bit...

JANUARY 11, 2009

Happy New Year.  Thank you for your touching emails and postings. Nicholas is doing well. He has had a few more seizures in the past few weeks and we have had to add a 12:30PM dose to his daily medications. I will be adding a tab about Nicholas past year of actual...