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LTL Surgery February 21
Fri, 01/26/2007 - 16:05Topic: Surgery and Devices
Hi everybody. To my friends out there I wanted to let you know that I have finally finished all of the testing and they are going to perform the surgery next month to remove part of my hippocampus in my left temporal lobe. The neurosurgeon says I have an 80 percent + chance so I am keeping my fingers crossed. I just had the WADA performed on Tuesday and it was nothing that I feared it would be (I was up and around that afternoon). Thanks for all of your support
Dawn ;-)
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Re: LTL Surgery February 21
Submitted by dinger57 on Sat, 2007-01-27 - 16:51
Hope everthing works out for you. If everythings goes as good for you as it did for me you will be so glad that you had it done and I am sure it will.
A Friend With Epilepsy
Ken
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Re: LTL Surgery February 21
Submitted by ScottR on Sat, 2007-01-27 - 23:45
Congratulations Dawn that's GREAT news. I am very excited for you.
You will have to let us know which hospital you are at so we can check in on you and see how you are doing.
I see my new nuro Monday at the hospital that will be doing my testing. Good luck and take care Scott.
Re: Re: LTL Surgery February 21
Submitted by dmh on Mon, 2007-01-29 - 15:09
Hi..thanks for responding. Yes, mine start in my hippocampus. They will not have to do the intercranial testing before the surgery. I believe the neurosurgeon thinks my success rate is higher because my seizures started when I was 15 months old (femoral-high fever) and the other side of my brain was able to take over at a young age. Hopefully if they remove the damaged portion of my left hippocampus then the seizures (partial and complex partial) will stop.