This site is
dedicated to our daughter who was born with epilepsy and started
having seizures at the age of 3 months old. Morgan went
through years of having seizures, sometimes up to 40 per day.
Throughout the last six years we have been down the long path of
deciding what was in the best interest of our daughter. We
traveled throughout the United States trying to get opinions on the
best course of treatment. In January of 2008 we made the
decision to go thru with a risky and very invasive brain
surgery. During her two surgery's Morgan had a craniotomy on
the left half of her skull where they then placed electric grids on
the surface of the brain. Two days later Morgan was taken back
into the operating room and had the entire Occipital lobe on the
left side removed and most of the parietal lobe. We have
included many pictures of her ordeal on our blog and will continue
to update her progress. Needless to say Morgan is doing better
that we could have hoped for and has even suprised her doctor's as
well. Morgan's surgery was performed at St. Joseph's Hospital
/ Barrows neurological institute in Phoenix Arizona. Her
superb Doctor's are Dr. Harold Rekate (surgeon), Dr. Jack Kerrigan
(Neurologist) we could have not had a better group of people to take
care of Morgan. And to the ones that nobody ever thinks about,
the many nurses and people in the ICU and on the floor. |
