Avoiding infection and the NCAA basketball tournament

We spoke this morning to Dr. Brown. He noted that we are in a balancing act. We have to wait for seizures, but the longer we wait, the greater the risk of infection. We are in no danger now, so we will continue to wait.

Remember that on Sunday they told us that they spotted intercranial seizures and were able to pinpoint where they were? Well there were only three of them, they happened on Saturday, and they haven't happened since.

The MRI they showed us at the time was at the midpoint of the skull as you look down on it. Almost as if you cut off the top of the head, right above the ears, and looked down inside. Now imagine there were horizontal and vertical centerlines, an x-axis and a y-axis. The area they suspect the activity is coming from was just right of the y-axis centerline and halfway above the x-axis centerline.

Today he said that they suspect the seizures may be mirrored, or coming from both sides of the y-axis centerline. He said you can remove the problem on one side, but not both. When I asked if taking only one side would solve the problem, he said if frequently did. Of course we need to get more seizure readings to confirm all these suspicions.

Dr. Storm came in tonight. We asked if the grids may interfere with seizures. He said sometimes; he told us they have heard of kids going a year without seizures once inter-cranial grids were placed. Being the technical type, I think he was just sharing some of the extreme instances of this procedure. We certainly don't want to be here that long, and neither does he. He's going to Vegas for the NCAA basketball tournament on March 17th.