Entries Tagged as 'UBE3A'

March 28, 2008

Oh. My. Goodness.

I would like to thank everyone who has visited my blog!  After a not so swell day, it was awesome to see a message that my blog had its best day ever (as in number of hits).  And then even more awesome when I saw an email from three days ago saying my blog had its best [...]

March 19, 2008

UBE3A results

Below is the verbatim results of Maddie’s UBE3A mutation test.  If anyone else wants to post theirs, just for comparison or whatever, please do so via the comment/ leave a reply section after this post.  If you’d rather I do it, just email me!
July 1, 2001 
The University of Chicago
Genetic Services Laboratories
    Results
All 10 coding exons of the UBE3A [...]

February 28, 2008

Note to self 2-28-08

Look up Maddie’s UBE3A test results and post it verbatim here.
Its interesting to compare with other parents.  And astounding that such a small misprint has such immense results.

December 31, 2007

Getting a Diagnosis

Once we had a chance for the words “Angelman Syndrome” to sink in, we awaited the test results.
I was crushed again when the test result came back normal, negative for Angelman Syndrome.  Dr. K told us to come back in a year to follow up. 
I had fully bought into the diagnosis of Angelman Syndrome, I [...]

December 31, 2007

Our Introduction to Angelman Syndrome

My oldest daughter,  Madeline,  was born in November 1997.  With hindsight, I can see she had “issues” since she was around 6 months old.
Looking back, she had pretty frequent reflux and vomitting.  It would take an hour to nurse her and try to keep her in a good position so everything didn’t come back up.  [...]