I'm Becky living in Bellingham. I have 3 children, a 5-year old
daughter, a 3-year old son, and a 5 month old daughter Madalynn who
has been having seizures for 2 months.

It seems everyone is so up on the terms associated with seizures, but
I'm pretty ignorant about it all. I've never met anyone with seizures
or really heard about them let alone seen one until Madalynn had her
first. Let me tell you how scary that was.

She's had 2 EEGs done and an MRI. The MRI showed her cortex on the
left side is larger then the cortex on the right. This is called:
Hemimegalencephaly. I'm trying not to read too much about seizures
because the more I do the more worried I become. I just want to talk
to other moms I guess so I don't feel so alone.

Madalynn is about to start her 3rd medicine to control the seizures
if it doesn't work then we may have to consider surgery. She has
seizures that are short they last about 1 1/2 mins. So thankfully she
doesn't have the grand mal(?) seizures.

I learned about this forum through Swedish Hospital in Seattle while
visting the doctor there. It's been hard having to travel around 3
hours round-trip to visit the doctor each time. But I just wanted you
to know that word is getting around about your group!