HyperMED Patient Update - Brittney Guerra

Brittney Guerra

Cerebral Palsy complex ‘deep seated’ (basal ganglia) development issues including delayed development; gross seizures, gross autistic responses; no speech

‘Hi Mal, Sorry this is a bit late, but I am pleased to share Brittney’s amazing success and hope that I can give somebody else some positive hope. We still have a long way to go but I’m amazed to see where Britney is today. So hopefully there are a lot more incredible stories to come.

Britney received a head injury at birth, and due to the cord being wrapped around her neck multiple times during utero she also has cerebral under developed fibers in her cerebellum vermis and basal ganglia. When Britney was born [over term at 42+ weeks] she weighed only 5 1/2 pounds, small head circumference and having seizures along with slow EEG.  

Our doctors and therapists weren’t confident with Britney’s outlook, intellectually and physically. At 10 months old Britney rolled but didn’t sit until she crawled at 18 months of age. Britney has high muscle tone with just a little spasticity, her coordination was always good although she tired and forgot after a while. At 3 yrs old Britney’s EEG was normal so we ceased medication. At 4 yrs old Britney had botox, 3 days later she took her first steps. With all of this Britney needed help to accomplish these goals. So by this stage Britney’s physical disability was looking to be promising but she was still very rigid. As far as her intellectual level this was unknown to me. At 4 yrs old she started to engage in eye contact but only for a brief moment, and a lot of the time couldn’t follow basic instruction, she was also very loud, screaming a lot, but she has no speech and has poor fine motor skills and average gross motor skills.  

Just after Britney walked at 4 yrs old I began HBOT. To be honest I was looking for instant and dramatic results. But as I know now with Britney I needed a good foundation before seeing dramatic results. At the 60 hr stage, during our break at HBOT session, I took Britney for a walk to the park, she started RUNNING ahead of me and this was the first change I noticed with Britney. I continued with HBOT and reached 100 hrs. I noticed Britney’s intellectual ability improving slightly during this stage. We had a break for 3 months, after this I started seeing huge changes.  

One particular day Britney was protesting in stamping her feet and screaming because we told her she was not going where she wanted, then Britney replied in fluent English “YES I AM’, I couldn’t believe my ears. I asked my speech therapist about this and she replied saying that obviously Britney had a connection and that this is very rare. Unfortunately Britney has not spoke like this again, but I now know she is capable of speech later.  

Britney is now nodding for yes and no and uses a picture communication book very well. Britney now also rides a bike independently very well and can also steer around witch’s hats; I’m running to keep up with her. She also now uses a folk and spoon to feed herself, she stabs or scoops her food, then puts it in her mouth, when will wipe her mouth with her spoon if needed, she also now attempts to use a knife. She is still a bit messy but who cares!  

During the last visit with her pediatrician, the doctor asked Britney to come in and stand on the scales, she did this to the doctor’s amazement, so the doctor kept asking Britney to do things and she responded. The doctors last request was ‘Britney can you stand on the stool and climb onto the bed and lay down for me”, when she did this without delay the dr turned to me with his mouth dropped. When also measuring Britney’s head circumference, Britney’s head growth is now climbing to normal range, this has only started to happen since HBOT. The doctors comment were “whatever you are doing with Britney, keep doing it. She amazing.” I also asked the doctor if he thought Britney had an intellectual disability and he said I’m not sure because she has no speech, but if she does its only minimal.

Also my 3-yr old daughter and myself locked ourselves outside of the house, meanwhile Britney was the only one still inside, it was early morning I hadn’t opened the blinds in the bedrooms as yet and I knew Britney was down the other end of the house near the bedrooms. Every external door of the house was deadlocked except for the one I pulled shut behind me. I was then thinking “now this is a test for Britney, I cant give her eye contact or signal to open the door because she at the other end of the house, and even if she could see me, a year ago the same thing happened and Britney could see me and she couldn’t follow instruction, so I had to call a lock smith”. So there I was banging on the kitchen window yelling Britney come and open the door for mum, I repeated this about 3 times in a row, then raced around to the lounge window to see if she was there. Then I heard a banging on the door I had locked and it was Britney trying to get my attention, I turned the door handle, Britney had unlocked it for me. [This lock you need to turn a fiddly little latch to open it, not bad for some-one who has no fine motor skills!!] I opened the door and hugged her and told her how clever she is. Britney was also very pleased in herself. This whole process only took about 3 minutes. So Britney responded immediately.  

Britney now is also exceptional on the computer at school; she uses a mouse with ease and also uses the touch screen. Britney play the aim and shoot games on the computer and doest miss a thing. As the neurologist said to me, you need your cerebellum to be able to do this, and this is one of Britney’s affected areas? Britney now can also travel on public transport and go to public places with out her screaming.  

Britney now has done about 170 hrs of HBOT over a 12 month period and she will be having more treatments. Britney still is impaired in a lot of ways but, she’s 200% better than before, and she is only 5 yrs old, how exciting. Thanks Mal, feel free to format this different if you like.

Kind regards Kylie Guerra.’