Sara and I made the trip together with Daisy to Palo Alto this week for her follow up appointment with Dr. Enns, her geneticist. Last time we had seen him, in early December, he gave us pretty grim news about the lipid storage abnormality they had found in Daisy's muscle tissue.

I think when he and another geneticist walked in to the room, after reviewing the file, they expected to find a floppy 9 month old with poor motor skills. Instead they found her sitting up, smiling and cooiing, eating Cheerios and reaching for everything in sight. Dr. Enns' eyes lit up as he interacted with Daisy, checking her development. He told us that only one other patient with a similar malady had done this well that he could remember. He felt that whatever deficiency she had been suffering from, she seemed to be "growing out of it." This was not something that he had found to be common.

Dr. Enns said he couldn't explain it. I asked him, "What about prayer and love?"