New prescription

Wow--Dr Maleeva (neurologist) spent a full hour with us on Wednesday. Someone must have prayed, so thank you!

She explained thoroughly about the depth electrode surgery. I mentioned that I'd been talking with a mom whose son had the grid last summer; he'd had complications, and they didn't get enough tissue out when they did his therapeutic surgery, so he is still having seizures. So Dr M spent a long time telling me how that case was difficult and David's seems more straightforward. She drew sketches of brains and probes and grids to illustrate all the things she was saying. It was cool if you like technical medical stuff and can keep your mind off the personal aspect.

The best case scenario for David in this coming step is if the probes detect his seizures starting deep in the mesial temporal lobe. Also, they want to see one probe detect a seizure for 5 or 10 seconds then see it spread to other probes.

In simpler terms, she then told us: 'Wake up every morning and say, "God, please let David's seizures begin in the mesial temporal lobe!" ' There we have it. Thank you for joining us!