Hearing her name?

There is a new video on the Maria page that seems to show her responding to her name. At the beginning she seems oblivious to the music, but about a second after they sing her name she stops and gets a look of concentration. For the rest of the video, she seems to be listening to the music. Just one event like this I would put down to my personal bias, since her cues are so subtle. But we've seen at least a dozen events like this over the last month. Her name is the only word she seems to recognize, and seems to hear it best when it is sung.

Due to technical issues none of you care about, the video is vertically squished and is available only as a 3 MB WMV rather than a large MPEG and a small WMV.

Tomorrow is the neurologist and neurosurgeon. It is the first time we've seen them in nearly a year. Cathy and I were saying that it is probably time to start asking them things we may not want to hear the answers to. For example, Maria's delays are not typical of hydrocephalus (at least not this degree), so is something else going on? Plus her reaction to pain is awfully muted. And I keep going back to the whole doesn't cry/doesn't laugh thing. Are any of these significant? So tomorrow may be traumatic.