David did fine. The surgeon came out a few minutes ago and told Bijan that it went very well.
Dr. Ross did apologize for it taking so long -- said the equipment didn't work well at first or something like that. That keeps it interesting, doesn't it?
Thank you for praying. Thank you God.
David wrote this morning:
I'm outside the admitting room at Huntington Hospital. We got here rather early (planning to arrive ~5:30, expecting to leave ~5:00, but actually leaving around 4:45). I've been feeling good this morning. The Ativan I took last night (accidentally--I'd planned on taking it this morning) probably helped me wake up, right about 4:30. It was funny, right before I woke up, I was having a dream that it was 7:50 or so this morning, and I was still in bed, and then I got up and told Mom "if we leave right now we'll be just in time for the surgery!" Hmm, but the surgery is scheduled for 7:30 not 8:30. Ahh, I enjoy being eager for this operation, and hope Mom will be relieved of her anxiety.
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Ahh, those wonderful dreams of oversleeping. I still remember having one before a chemistry final 25 years ago.
DESCRIPTION OF PROBE SURGERY
He has had ten probes put into his brain. Each probe has 7 or 8 wires on it that all go to an EEG. When he has a seizure hopefully they will see one wire showing the beginning of the seizure pattern on the EEG. That would reveal where David's seizures start. If the area can be removed they will invite him for a future surgery.
If two or more wires consistently show the beginnings of seizures then the "bad spot" in his brain is probably somewhere in between them. That would mean he could have another more difficult diagnostic surgery with a flat grid to detect seizure beginnings (in some future visit).
"Phases" posting from Monday April 7 has another description of this treatment. Also go to http://www.epipro.com/surgery.html and look halfway down for phase II and phase III sections to see more info.
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