It’s been almost 8 months since Maysa graduated from her 2nd DOC band. She’s basically been out of it for as long as she has been in it. She also turned two recently and I keep thinking that things are getting better and better post band… I don’t take as many pictures as I used to of her head (top view, profile, front…) but I was comparing the two pictures from her 1st and 2nd birthdays, the other day . She has changed a lot, I think, but while I know she has, it is not until I mirrored the two pictures that it became very obvious to the naked eye.
So, here are the two pictures I kept staring at. In the one on the left, she is one and under treatment with the 1st DOC band. On the left, she is two and done with treatment. Do you notice the differences? If you are somewhat like me, you probably do, but if you can’t quite put your finger on it, take a look at the set below this one:
Do you now see what I see? Look at her ears in the mirror picture when she was one and the right side of her face. It’s almost like somebody had come and grabbed that part of her face and pulled at it. That right ear in the mirror picture is higher, her cheek is higher, the bulge over that right ear is also more pronounced. I never thought back then that she had much facial asymmetry but boy was I wrong… In the recent picture, her ears are aligned, her head doesn’t seem so wide, and except for one eye looking a tidbit smaller than the other, I would say that her asymmetry is close to zero, at this point. I also have to say that her face has gotten longer and this has helped with the overall aspect of her head not looking so brachycephalic (wide).
I’ll have to try my best to take more comparable pictures of her head from different angles, but by posting this entry, I just wanted to kind of give an update as to what things look like now in retrospect to a year ago, back when I thought things would never really look normal again. I do think and know that the DOC band helped fix several things a great deal. She’s also been improving on her own since…
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