{"id":257,"date":"2015-08-20T22:08:58","date_gmt":"2015-08-21T05:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.epilepsy.cliftfam.com\/?p=257"},"modified":"2015-08-20T22:08:58","modified_gmt":"2015-08-21T05:08:58","slug":"the-last-pill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epilepsy.cliftfam.com\/?p=257","title":{"rendered":"The Last Pill"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The last anti-seizure pill!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On Tuesday morning Rachel took the\u00a0last 1\/2 pill of Trileptal, her\u00a0anti-seizure medication. Since she is still seizure-free, even after being weaned off the\u00a0meds, this means that her surgery in December was officially a complete success!<\/p>\n

I haven’t posted since January, since there hasn’t been much to say. She’s had a few follow-up MRIs since then,\u00a0and everything looks great. However, we have realized in the last eight months how much of 2014 she doesn’t remember because of the seizures. It’s a striking example of what scientists say\u00a0about how memories are not formed instantly, but over a period of hours. Each of those 150+ seizures robbed her of\u00a0a few more memories. My heart goes out to all of the epileptics for whom a happy surgical outcome is not an option. At least for Rachel, she can re-watch some movies from last year, and at some point she’ll have to learn about Ancient Rome again.<\/p>\n

\"IMG_1849\"<\/a>On Monday Rachel starts high school! She has kept her half-shave look, freshly colored a beautiful shade of indigo for the start of school.<\/p>\n

This will be my last post on this blog. Thank you all for the\u00a0love and support you have given us throughout this journey! It has meant the world to us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Tuesday morning Rachel took the\u00a0last 1\/2 pill of Trileptal, her\u00a0anti-seizure medication. Since she is still seizure-free, even after being weaned off the\u00a0meds, this means that her surgery in December was officially a complete success! I haven’t posted since January, since there hasn’t been much to say. She’s had a few follow-up MRIs since then,\u00a0and … Continue reading The Last Pill<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epilepsy.cliftfam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257","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=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.epilepsy.cliftfam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265,"href":"https:\/\/www.epilepsy.cliftfam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions\/265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epilepsy.cliftfam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epilepsy.cliftfam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epilepsy.cliftfam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}