First seizure.

Adam had a seizure at 10 AM this morning (Wed, Nov 2). Normally not something to cheer about, but we were very relieved at this point. One of the things that can go wrong in this whole process, is that occasionally the act of putting the wire grid directly on the brain in and of itself stops seizure activity. They have had kids that were having daily seizures, even with meds, and then with the grid implanted the seizure activity stopped. A couple weeks would go by and they would have to just give up and go back in and remove the grid (it can't just be left in), at which point they were back to full seizures again. They need the seizure activity to get the data to proceed to the next step.

Evidently, with the wire grid in place they can actually induce a seizure, but the data from that is a lot less likely to be useful. So we are hoping for natural seizure activity and we have our first! The EEG traces from these will help localize the damaged area well enough that they feel confident to go after it in phase II of the operation.