Journal entry by Barbara Bradley — Mar 2, 2013

I will make this short and sweet. Katie had a routine EEG and follow-up with her neurologist at Duke Thursday. It was a very long day that began with getting up at 4:45am but we survived and thankfully got good news. 

She had a 30 minute EEG that captured some awake time and a short nap. Her neurologist saw no suspicious activity on her right side. He printed the report for me. I have never actually seen one of her printed EEG’s. The left side shows constant peaks while the right side is unaffected. Pretty amazing if you thing about it.

He also printed some MRI images prior to her last surgery showing the residual fibers that were still connecting the right and left hemispheres. It looks like a map with a small peninsula trailing and connecting two continents. For now he wants to leave the meds as they are and let the dust settle until at least six months post op before we even think of changing anything. The brain is still healing from surgery. She will go back in June and have another EEG (happy, happy, joy, joy) and if all is still good perhaps we can begin the gradual process of taking her off one of her meds.