Please help fund Tiny V’s testing!
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Hi all,
Thank you so much for your interest in helping us fund Tiny V’s testing. We are very thankful to you for taking the time to learn about our kiddo’s situation.
As many of you already know, Tiny V is quite a character.
Funny, sweet, intelligent, talented, and so perfectly, wonderfully weird. Her personality just glows. She’s always reminded me of a July 4th sparkler - fiery and shimmering. She is also the sweetest child I’ve ever known. Did you have a bad day and you feel down and sad? She’ll bring you her beloved Mickey Mouse cuddle friend and let you snuggle him. 
Are you home sick with a cold? She’ll fix you a big bottle of water and bring you an apple for a snack before she leaves for school. Throughout her preschool years (and still a bit today) Tiny V would fall in love with random stuff. And we never knew what it would be. Her adored item might be a fake cactus at my aunt’s house, a butternut squash from the grocery store, or a tea kettle from our cabinet. 
It didn’t matter what the item was, though. It was loved more than anyone had ever loved that thing before. We took lots of pictures with it if it was something we couldn’t bring home (my aunt’s cactus) or we just brought it home (the butternut squash), dressed it in an infant hat and made a crib for it out of a shoebox. 
But over the last year or so, we’d begun noticing some unique behaviors that we hadn’t seen in her siblings: a difficulty managing frustration, lots of talk about being very sad and lonely, and kind of a halt in maturity. I chalked a lot of it up to the long-term effects of being 6 years old when we went into lockdown and being on Zoom school for a year.
But her challenges only increased once school came back. A few months ago she began seeing a psychiatrist because her talk of sadness plus an overall depressed mood really dulled her sparkle and I could see she was struggling with her mental health. Shortly before seeing the doctor, Tiny V began developing some physical tics. They started with some facial movements, blinking and sniffling, and has now further developed into fine motor tics of her hands and fingers that have begun impacting how she uses them to write, eat, and play on the computer. Because of the rapid expansion of the tics and some other health factors, our psychiatrist has stated Tiny V needs a full neuropsychological evaluation to determine exactly what’s going on in her big beautiful brain and how we can best support her.
Thankfully, our insurance covers her psychiatric care. It does not, however, cover the needed neuropsych test. The total testing fee is $6,500.
The facility we’ve chosen to have the testing done at is The Mind Blossom Center and it’s amazing. You can check them out here: https://www.mindblossomcenter.com/home
We would be so grateful for any monetary support you are willing to donate. We will be equally thankful for prayers, words of encouragement, manifestations of love, wildly good juju vibes, whatever you may be willing to send our way.
Thank you so much for helping our Tiny V. We send you love - the sparkly kind of love that can only come from a huge, full heart - and we hope that you have a magical day.
With deep thanks,
Raighne and Vivien Kotrla
& the rest of the Kotrla gang - Vance, Eliot, Dylan, and Vivien’s twin sister Elsa
Thank you so much for your interest in helping us fund Tiny V’s testing. We are very thankful to you for taking the time to learn about our kiddo’s situation.
As many of you already know, Tiny V is quite a character.
Funny, sweet, intelligent, talented, and so perfectly, wonderfully weird. Her personality just glows. She’s always reminded me of a July 4th sparkler - fiery and shimmering. She is also the sweetest child I’ve ever known. Did you have a bad day and you feel down and sad? She’ll bring you her beloved Mickey Mouse cuddle friend and let you snuggle him. Are you home sick with a cold? She’ll fix you a big bottle of water and bring you an apple for a snack before she leaves for school. Throughout her preschool years (and still a bit today) Tiny V would fall in love with random stuff. And we never knew what it would be. Her adored item might be a fake cactus at my aunt’s house, a butternut squash from the grocery store, or a tea kettle from our cabinet. It didn’t matter what the item was, though. It was loved more than anyone had ever loved that thing before. We took lots of pictures with it if it was something we couldn’t bring home (my aunt’s cactus) or we just brought it home (the butternut squash), dressed it in an infant hat and made a crib for it out of a shoebox. But over the last year or so, we’d begun noticing some unique behaviors that we hadn’t seen in her siblings: a difficulty managing frustration, lots of talk about being very sad and lonely, and kind of a halt in maturity. I chalked a lot of it up to the long-term effects of being 6 years old when we went into lockdown and being on Zoom school for a year.
But her challenges only increased once school came back. A few months ago she began seeing a psychiatrist because her talk of sadness plus an overall depressed mood really dulled her sparkle and I could see she was struggling with her mental health. Shortly before seeing the doctor, Tiny V began developing some physical tics. They started with some facial movements, blinking and sniffling, and has now further developed into fine motor tics of her hands and fingers that have begun impacting how she uses them to write, eat, and play on the computer. Because of the rapid expansion of the tics and some other health factors, our psychiatrist has stated Tiny V needs a full neuropsychological evaluation to determine exactly what’s going on in her big beautiful brain and how we can best support her. Thankfully, our insurance covers her psychiatric care. It does not, however, cover the needed neuropsych test. The total testing fee is $6,500.
The facility we’ve chosen to have the testing done at is The Mind Blossom Center and it’s amazing. You can check them out here: https://www.mindblossomcenter.com/home
We would be so grateful for any monetary support you are willing to donate. We will be equally thankful for prayers, words of encouragement, manifestations of love, wildly good juju vibes, whatever you may be willing to send our way.
Thank you so much for helping our Tiny V. We send you love - the sparkly kind of love that can only come from a huge, full heart - and we hope that you have a magical day.
With deep thanks,
Raighne and Vivien Kotrla
& the rest of the Kotrla gang - Vance, Eliot, Dylan, and Vivien’s twin sister Elsa
Co-organizers (3)
Raighne Kotrla
Organizer
Los Angeles, CA
Vance Kotrla
Co-organizer
Dylan Kotrla
Co-organizer