Progress!

What on earth is that you say?

Well that would be the results of a QEEG - or Quantitative EEG - essentially you are getting a look into the electrical activity of K's brain. This was her repeat and compared to her intital test in Jan. I could launch into extensive descriptions of frequency and wave types, beta's and thetas etc.....all of which I am finding more and more fascinating, esp when the therapist shares some case studies with me. The problem solving scientist in me loves it!

Anyway I digress.....esstentially all you need to look at is the color. The one on the top......top two rows are Jan, bottom is August. Basically each little "circle" is a "map" of K's brain at a different frequency, and all of the EEG points. In short - red/orange is not good, green is good, and the shades in between are graduated....notice how much more green is on the bottom!?!?! YES! That is progress! The next picture is a different "view" - I laid the pages left to right. Left is Jan, right is August. See all the GREEN on the right!?!? The second row on the right is the most impressive. She basically was red all over, ALL OVER people, and now has a nice rim of green!! she noticed the butterfly shape right away.

Experimental therapy my @ss.

We were quite pleased and just does reinforce the behavior and social changes we have seen. Don't get me wrong, she does have a way to go but it is working. We quickly learned in January that many of her problems were way beyond typical ADD. We are noticing a decrease in her sensory problems, decrease in her anxiety(directly related to all of the "red" she had in her brain) - she is so much more socially accepted, her friends are calling, she is just so much more comfortable in her skin for lack of a better way to put it. School is coming along. She was actually complaining last night that she doesn't day dream anymore! Can you say more focused!?! The biggest issue right now is getting to be more confident with herself, and not to give up so easily. She has gotten into so many bad habits of not trying - if you tried for years and got no where wouldn't you give up too? Focus is still short but at least there, and she requires a lot less redirection. So we are well on our way!

I feel so blessed that we started this therapy. It has been costly. It has been time consuming. It has been stressful at times when K didn't want to do it. It was a HUGE leap of faith. But honestly if you told me standing on my head in a corner for the rest of my life would help her, I would have done it. When her meds didn't seem to be working even though we went higher and higher and she got thinner and thinner - there was just this nagging "voice" in my head last Dec that kept telling me to research, look farther, find another way. I did a websearch and just prayed I would see the answer. I researched and read, and researched and read. Neurobiofeedback just kept coming up, over and over. There it was. Our answer. Than to find a provider 30 min away(extremely rare where we live!) , and then finding out when we arrive he is one of the leading researchers/educators on the therapy and a Christain based therapy office to boot - divine intervention! My prayer now is somehow somewhat my nephew is able to get the same opportunity. I know it will work for him too.