Neuro Reorganization Day 1

We had our much anticipated meeting for K's neuro reorg today.  The appointment was close to 3 hours long and I am kind of feeling like my brain is melting.  There is a lot to remember.  The long and short of it is that K's  lower brain is not functioning as it should, so like a building with a poor foundation, we can keep trying to build on it, but if we don't fix the foundation, everything will remain shaky.  Importantly, it came out that our NR will let us know when the appropriate time to start therapy with her will be.  Right now because of K's processing skills, there wouldn't be anything to gain from therapy.  We need to fix the foundation first.  One of the key things we learned is that K didn't have the foundations in utero or in her first months after birth that she should have.  This is reflected in birth reflexes that she is still retaining.  These should have been lost within a few months of birth, but she still shows at least 4 of these reflexes.   On the next level of her brain which is the PONS, 1-4 months old, is key to deep emotion, fight or flight, feeling safe and secure.  It is likely that she didn't develop the PONS level correctly, so to her, the world is not a safe place and she stays in that fight or flight mode constantly.  This reflects also in her eye contact, her horizontal and vertical eye tracking skips and she can not converge on an object, but instead diverges, this is part of her hypervigilance as she has issues paying attention because she is always distracted looking for potential threats.  Another major connection is her inability to sense pain, overreacting to some and underreacting to other, this pain center also ties to empathy, if she can't sense pain in herself, she can not feel empathy for others or make the emotional connections.  On of the other exercises shows she is hardwired to the flight or flight reaction when placed under any stress.  Her brain reverts to the PONS level and she shuts down.  Our NR also ID'ed quite a few midbrain issues as well.  For now, we are going to be working on the PONS level as that will likely cause some of the midbrain issues that she saw to fall into place.  Based on the evaluation, the issue we rated highest she is having, and the plan for rebulding the basics, she developed a series of daily activities we will be working with K on.  They are quite extensive and there is a learning curve involved, but so far, K was pretty cooperative.  Our follow up is in 3 months, so hopefully we will make some good progress over the summer with her home with us 4 day a week.  Time for some rest and tomorrow, trying to incorporate some NR into our morning routine