Superhero?

Today we had an appointment with the geneticists at Children's Hospital. They said that Lucas' chromosomes are normal - which is great! They also had the official MRI report, which now states that his HPE is somewhere between semi-lobar (medium) and alobar (severe), which was news to us. We asked the geneticist to clarify with the radiologists.

The radiologist was glad that the doctor called to clarify - because apparently Lucas was the topic of discussion at the weekly conference of neuro radiologists today. They looked over his MRI scans and they've decided that they have no idea what Lucas' diagnosis is. They say that his brain has symptoms of all three severities of HPE, but he also has some brain matter that is not consistent with HPE that appears to be formed correctly and which they cannot identify. Nobody has ever seen a brain like his before.

We will be sending his MRI scans to HPE specialists at the Carter Center in Stanford University. Hopefully that will provide more information. Right now, our best guess is that he is a superhero. But please keep that under wraps. We don't want any super villains knocking on our door.