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vns theray surgery

Wed, 10/22/2008 - 19:20
hello my name is brenda and my 5 year old daughter is about to under go surgery to get the vns implant i am really nervous about it we went through all the testing to see if she was a brain surgery canidate and she was not that's how we decided to get this one done.herseizures are coming from the back of her brain both on the right and left side.i'm hopping this works thing have got to get better yesterday she had 2 seizures in school and than i'm pretty sure she had her first grandma seizure which scared the hell out of me.but if anybody has had this surgery done please give me your exsperiences or comments. thank you

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