{"id":219,"date":"2014-12-11T12:04:46","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T20:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.epilepsy.cliftfam.com\/?p=219"},"modified":"2014-12-21T17:44:54","modified_gmt":"2014-12-22T01:44:54","slug":"she-is-titanium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epilepsy.cliftfam.com\/?p=219","title":{"rendered":"She Is Titanium!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m bulletproof, nothing to lose<\/em>
\nFire away, fire away<\/em>
\nRicochet, you take your aim<\/em>
\nFire away, fire away<\/em>
\nYou shoot me down but I won’t fall<\/em>
\nI AM\u00a0TITANIUM!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

– David Guetta “Titanium”<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Recovering<\/a>
Recovering in ICU, and showing her colors<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Rachel is in ICU this morning, on the road to recovery. She is much improved from last night, although the\u00a0muscles in\u00a0her right temple hurt a lot. This was expected to be the worst pain area — chewing won’t be a lot of fun for the next week. She’s getting the pain meds she needs, and right now is sleeping.<\/p>\n

I wanted to add some details about how the surgery went.\u00a0After removing a cookie-sized piece of her skull, they put electrodes directly on her brain surface. This allows them to measure the electrical activity MUCH more precisely than EEG electrodes on the skull. Apparently it is very easy to identify seizure-causing areas\u00a0from the\u00a0pattern of brain waves, even when she is not actually having a seizure. Seizure areas have\u00a0regular spikes. The results of this test made her neurologist Dr. Porter VERY happy — it gave her\u00a0confidence that the surgery they were about to do was the right one.<\/p>\n

The next step was removing the tumor. This was Dr. Cheshier’s turn to get happy. He told us that as he removed the tissue, it was REALLY obvious which tissue was tumor and which tissue was normal. Sometimes the distinction is subtle, but not in Rachel’s case (what an obedient little girl, to have a clearly-delineated tumor). This is what made him describe the surgery as “routine” and “perfect”. He had no trouble seeing exactly what to remove, and he is sure that he got it all.<\/p>\n

The last step of the surgery was closing her back up. They put the piece of skull back in place, just like the top of a jack-o-lantern. Except in this case, they sealed it in place with titanium plates. The titanium is not magnetic, so MRIs and airport security will not be a problem.<\/p>\n

And now Rachel REALLY IS Titanium!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m bulletproof, nothing to lose Fire away, fire away Ricochet, you take your aim Fire away, fire away You shoot me down but I won’t fall I AM\u00a0TITANIUM! – David Guetta “Titanium” Rachel is in ICU this morning, on the road to recovery. She is much improved from last night, although the\u00a0muscles in\u00a0her right temple … Continue reading She Is Titanium!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-favorites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epilepsy.cliftfam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epilepsy.cliftfam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epilepsy.cliftfam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epilepsy.cliftfam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epilepsy.cliftfam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.epilepsy.cliftfam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223,"href":"https:\/\/www.epilepsy.cliftfam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions\/223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epilepsy.cliftfam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epilepsy.cliftfam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epilepsy.cliftfam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}