Our New Adventure
I haven't posted since March. Many many updates. Travis's health is slowly but surely improving. The twitches, facial grimaces, and all other dystonia/myoclonus-type involuntary movements seem to be getting less frequent and less volatile the past few weeks. He still has bad days when it all comes out, but those days are farther and fewer between the good days. Many of you have heard that he finally has a diagnosis after a week at the end of July in Minnesota at the Mayo Clinic. After a dozen appointments/tests/movement labs, it was decided that Travis has a treatable, non-degenerative disorder called "Functional Movement Disorder." It is treatable by cognitive behavior therapy (CBT), which basically means he needs to retrain his brain to suppress the involuntary movements. We are hoping he can start a CBT program in the next month or so. We moved to Columbus, Ohio last week. So far, we love it! Travis starts his PhD program in Biophysics on Tue...