Strips and Grids???

My 8 year old daughter just came home from having intercrainial monitoring on January 22 and removal of her left occipital and temporal lobes on January 29.  First of all she's doing fantastic!  She had 106 electrodes on her brain, mostly grids and some depth electrodes.  Her seizures started 2 1/2 years ago and were in the occipital lobe, mostly visual but traveled rapidly to the temporal lobe.  There was also some resection of the parietal lobe.  She was not really comfortable with the grid in place.  The swelling started the day after surgery and reached its peak 2 days after surgery.  It was very uncomfortable.  She was taking tylenol and codine for pain until we realized that the codine was making her sick.  After that the tylenol every 4 hours was enough.  On the third day after surgery the Dr.'s did mapping.  It was quite an ordeal for an 8 year old to go through.  There was a concern about her language so they spent most of the time mapping to ensure that there wouldn't be a language deficit.  She was able to answer the questions while simulating those electrodes, so we were good to go.  They unhooked the wires after mapping and over the next 3 days she was tired and grumpy, but very happy to have all of that stuff disconnected.  The resection was done on Jan 29, taking 8 hours.  She spent 21 hours in ICU and and was released 4 days after that. She's still recovering, all of her language skills are intact.  She has a visual field deficit to the right in both eyes, but this is what we expected.  So far, she is seizure free. Best of Luck Canadian Girl