A start at my "Autobiography"
Selected stories by Dick Whitney
Living with Epilepsy
A presentation/personal story by Peg Whitney
Harrington Memorial Hospital
Tuesday June 19, 2012 at 7PM
Peg -Living with Epilespy
Peg -Living with Epilespy
After her 6 hour brain operation to remove her right hippocampus
on June 22, 2011 Peg is doing very well and we could not be more
excited! In less than 24 hours after her surgery, she was out of
intensive care and no signs at present of any complications other
than a bad headache. She was released from UMass Med on June 26
and since then has been doing great.
Peg has struggled with Temporal Lobe Epilepsy since birth, and in
recent years her seizures had gotten worse. We are most hopeful
this may either cure her or greatly improve situation in this
regard! As of this writing (August 18, 2011), she has had no
seizures or auras since her surgery!!! Heer MRI (Aug15) looks
normal and have copied
Peg less than 24 hours after surgery
Before and After views of the brain;
the circled photo below it shows the area taken out, which was
found to be very abnormal when examined post op.
Before and after above; below is Aug 15 MRI where circled area shows section taken out.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocampus
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Updated on June 27, 2011