Pediatric Epilepsy Monitoring Unit

I have to give a shout out to St. Joseph Hospital and the Barrow Neurological Institute and their new Pediatric Epilepsy Monitoring Unit! How cool is that? An entire unit devoted to epilepsy in children. It's amazing. It's beautiful!

VNS

On February 9th they will turn on Damonito's new VNS. They had to wait for a couple of weeks to make sure that his body didn't reject it. He's doing fine. He's developed a new type of seizure, myclonus, that are occurring in his sleep. These are muscle twitching kind of seizures that indicate that his Lennox Gastaut is progressing. The hope is that the VNS was actually helping these seizures that generally occur in his sleep.