We can’t exactly complain about it. In fact, we asked for it. Rachel needed yet another MRI, and we had three doctors to meet.  It was another sign of how accommodating Packard is, that they were able work all of this in to one day. But it did make for a very long day.

The biggest thing to come out of the day was that we conveyed our decision to move forward as soon as possible with surgery. Their protocol is that two medications should be shown to have failed. The Keppra was teenage-hormones-times-ten, and still didn’t stop the seizures. The Tripleptal made her sick at high doses, and also didn’t stop them. So it was time to move on.

The doctors wanted two more tests: a 3-day video EEG (to verify that the seizures really do start in the right temporal lobe), and a Functional MRI (to verify that her language memories really are formed on the left side, like most people).