Official Results

I got the report from Athena in the mail today, regarding Julia's TS testing.

Here's what it said:

This individual does not possess detectable abnormal DNA variants in the TSC1 or TSC2 gene coding sequence. Therefore, this individual is unlikely to be affected with, or predisposed to developing, Tuberous Sclerosis due to mutations in the TSC1 or TSC2 genes. Nonetheless, while methodologically accurate, this analysis does not definitively rule out TS due to mutations in another gene identified or not yet discovered, mutations in regions of the TSC1 or TSC2 not tested in this analysis or mutations that are not detectable by the technology used in this assay.

Don't ya just love how they cover their asses by saying that this testing does not rule out the possibility of TS?

Anyway, YAY for a negative result!

Also, on a related note, I found out that Julia's EEG will not be on April 10th with her MRI. It will be on April 18th instead, as they were not able to coordinate the scheduling. So, that means sedation twice but it all seems to be really low key so I am not too worried about it.

Anyway, off to bed as I have to be at the bus for the conference tomorrow at 7:00 am. I will be back around 6:30-7 or so , and will try and update tomorrow to give you all the details!