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December 3rd, 2006, Reading, England. Doctors are about to turn off life support not knowing the outcome. My mother takes a picture in case these are my final moments. This is when the epilepsy began.
July 2nd, 2024, Redwood City, California. An invasive brain surgery performed to monitor brain waves (sEEG). The monitor showed continual seizure activity twenty-four hours a day. Nurses assumed I was seizing frequently, waking me in the night to help.
July 3rd, 2024, Redwood City, California. The sEEG procedure. Bandaged up; preparation to remove; baseball cap failing to hide the staples, but still showing up to work!
November 27th, 2024, Palo Alto, California. Neurosurgeons take MRI imaging showing progress of the nine-hour long LiTT surgery.
November 28th, 2024, Palo Alto, California. Freely walking out of Stanford hospital the day after the highly invasive brain surgery. Modern science and surgeons a testament to this moment.
Summer, 2025. My wife and I. These were taken in Hawaii a few months after surgery — the first time I felt like life had color again.