Our move to Austin and some more test results.

We finally got moved to Austin about a week ago and are loving it here. The change in scenery is awesome. I had forgotten what it's like to live with rain, humidity, grass and trees. On the drive down here one night there was a thunderstorm with lightning. Kekoa asked me what all those flashing lights were. He didn't know what lightning was. He's also asked me why there were so many trees in one area. It was a forest. Why the clouds kept covering up the sun all day, and why does it rain so much. He has said on numerous occasions how much he loves it here and doesn't want to go back to Las Vegas. He really likes our house because it has two flights of stairs. He's the only one who likes that part. It's really nice because we can walk to the park, the grocery store, and the movie store. We did drive by the blind school too and were impressed. They're remodeling it right now, but it looks huge. We're still waiting for the early intervention program to evaluate Oliana. The lady that does the referrals was out of town last week, but is suppose to call me this week.
I did get the results back from Oli's MRI, endocrine lab work, and her pelvic ultrasound. The MRI showed that her optic nerves are no longer visible and she is completely missing her optic chiasm. This means that she will never have any light perception and is completely 100% blind. Her pituitary gland looked normal. They thought it looked small before. The radiologist said that he thought it looked good and only the bright spot of the pituitary looked a little small, but if it functioned normally it was probably normal. Not every one's looks the same. Her endocrine labs were all normal, so still no problems there. Yay!! The most shocking result was her pelvic ultrasound. When she was born they did one and told us that she had two uterus's. Guess what?? SHE DOESN'T. SHE ONLY HAS ONE!!! I don't know why they thought she had two. Maybe because she was so small it was very difficult to see. She has one uterus and two ovaries. The result was a completely normal pelvic ultrasound for her age! That was great news. So really, the only thing abnormal is her eyes and her kidneys. The geneticist said that she thought that the kidney reflux and hydronephrosis were probably unrelated since many kids are diagnosed with this and just outgrow it. We are just so excited that she is only blind. So all in all, very good news!!
One other test we got back was Seth and I's genetic results. They tested us for the same gene deletion as Oliana because I guess you can have the deletion without being affected. Our results were both negative. Neither one of us has this deletion and our chromosomes are normal. This makes it even more unlikely that we would have another child with OTX2. Another great piece of news!!