High Fats and Butterflies

Two big events for Mia today. She started the next phase of her treatment for the metabolic disorder which is a diet know as a Ketogenic diet. The diet involves high fats and low carbohydrates. The idea is that Mia's body will learn to get it's energy from fat instead of sugar, since the nature of her disorder is that her body cannot metabolize sugar to create energy. So far she is tolerating the diet well and does not seem bothered by it.


The other big event today was the arrival of the much anticipate helmet, decorated with beautiful butterflies. Rusty, as seen here, is the one who made the mold last week and came to show us how the helmet worked.


Mia wasn't feeling so happy about the helmet at first, but once it was on she seemed okay with it.


It was pretty exciting seeing the helmet go on. It was kinda like seeing Darth Vader get his helmet for the first time, except with less evil and more butterflies.


Mia adjusted to the helmet pretty quick (seems to be her MO with just about everything) and settled in for a nice little sleep after her feeding. She'll wear the helmet on and off until she gets used to it and then will wear it almost all the time. It should take a solid month or so for the helmet to reshape her head.


This picture has nothing to do with fat or butterflies, but it was too incredibly cute not to post it.