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About Faith's type of Cerebral Palsy

Spastic diplegia, historically known as Little's Disease, is a form of cerebral palsy (CP) that is a neuromuscular condition of hypertonia and spasticity in the muscles of the lower extremities of the human body, usually those of the legs, hips and pelvis. Doctor William John Little's first recorded encounter with cerebral palsy is reported to have been among children who displayed signs of spastic diplegia.
This condition is by far the most common type of CP, occurring in almost 70% of all cases.

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Our latest diagnosis count

So I thought, just for "fun", I would try to keep a running count of all the diagnosis that Faith has received, during the last five years.

1. Blood clot in brain w/ possible protein c and s def.- birth
2. Seizures/Epilepsy: apneac, partial complex, tonic- since
birth
3. Cerebral palsy- 5 mo.
4. Craniosynostosis- 7 mo.
5. Perventricular leukomalacia- shortly after birth
6. Feeding disorder- since birth
7. Global developmental delays- 1 yr
8. Receptive/Expressive language disorder- 1yr
9. Strabismus, Farsightedness- 1 yr
10. Grade 2 kidney reflux- 3 yrs
11. "Low grade" glioma/brain tumor- dxed at 3, present since
birth
12. Premature adrenarche-4yrs
13. Pediatric osteopenia-5yrs

These are the major ones that I can think of, off the top of my head. Probably some more smaller ones, I forgot. Interesting.