Little things like that would happen. Noah was born in August 1996 to Faith and Mike Varcadipane, whose daughter, Nikki, then 4, had followed a faster course of development. They consulted a second, however, who was alarmed. I just sat there in amazement as he sent us off to the neurologist. 6, no. 4 and vol.
Mitochondria are microscopic energy factories housed inside the body's cells.
At 14 months, Noah couldn't pick up Cheerios on a tray in front of him. There were problems with swallowing, with vision, with attention to tasks. Finding that mitochondrial muscle disorders are indeed part of MDA's program, the Varcadipanes went to the recently opened MDA clinic at the Orlando Nemours Children's Clinic. We got to see their geneticist, their pulmonologist, their orthopedist. It was really good that way.