Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Success!!!...?

I'm now several weeks into taking two classes at LeTourneau from home. Atoms Nuclei and Particles is being taught by Dr. Ball, and Advanced Quantum Mechanics by Dr. DeBoer, and they're going pretty well. I'm also taking a class at PCC - Speech 1. It's also going well.

Now for the neurological news. The MRI was taken, (see previous post) but it didn't see much besides the expected scars from the grid. That slows plans of surgery, but that is no longer such a disappointment, because a final solution which we gave up on several years ago seems to be promising again - medication.
A couple months ago, Dr. Maleeva gave me a new prescription, called Vimpat. It has less interference with other prescriptions than most other second meds, and it has less side effects. It works in the same way as Trileptal, which I've been taking for a long time. So, I'm phasing out of that old medicine, which we think is causing most of the slowing down of my mind.
For about a year, I was having seizures in clusters, about 6-10 per cluster, clusters lasting 2-4 days, about one cluster a month. Since I started taking Vimpat, I have not had a single seizure. It's probably been more than two months now!

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