Julia said I could share this picture with you. This is where all the electrodes were placed into her brain. There are a few more places in the part of her hair, and just above her ear. We were very pleasantly surprised that they only cut a small amount of hair, so you can hardly tell it was cut at all. Each of the entry points has one stitch in it. They are still a bit sore, and somewhat itchy, but everything is healing up well so far. Julia took her first shower in quite a while tonight, and bravely got her hair wet. I did not hear her yelling in the shower, so she must have managed it okay. We are now going to wait several week and let her brain heal, and go to a follow up appointment in the middle of September. I don't completely understand the next step we will be doing, but I think Julia will be meeting with a particular kind of psychologist who will be trying to determine how exactly Julia stores memories, how she retrieves memories, and try to determine what areas of her hippocampus are more dominant than others. Ultimately, we are trying to determine if her seizure location is in a dominant area or not. This should be very interesting.
(I am having trouble attaching a picture. I will keep trying . . . )
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