Exciting

This evening has been one of the best evenings I've had in quite some time. While the day was uneventful at best, this evening my mom, Caleb and I went over to a friend's house and had dinner with her, her husband, and her two young boys. Caleb was very good, didn't cry at all, just wandered from room to room, trying to pick everything up. We had little snacks and pizza, nothing fancy. It was nice having adult conversation even if I was jumping up every couple seconds to chase after Caleb.

My phone went off and while I normally would ignore any calls while with company, I was hoping to hear back from a certain doctor. While I was in the hospital for my seizure testing I did this huge psychological test which looked at IQ, personality, you name it. They often adminster those for patients hoping for surgery because they can find any issues in the brain that seizures might have had some affect on. For instance, some people may have very bad verbal skills or memory because seizures have actually sort of fried that part of the brain. So I was very interested in what he had to say and left my phone on hoping to hear from this doctor. Now it was actually a doctoral student who administered it who, by the way, was very very cute. He's 24 and working on his doctorate. Damn he was cute. Wish I could have gotten his number; of course when he saw me I was in a hospital gown with wires and goop all over my head so I probably didn't look very nice. lol

Anyways, this doctor (who is like the boss of the guy who tested me) talked to me on the phone for like 20 minutes. Apparently, I am like the perfect candidate for brain surgery which could completely eliminate my seizures. According to the study, I am smarter than 85% of the people in Cincinnati (of those surveyed) and while he couldn't remember my exact IQ, he said it's like 113 or 115, somewhere around there. So he'll present my case to the board and they'll discuss everyone considered for surgery and hopefully I'll get the unanimous vote needed to get the surgery. The doc sounded really optimistic though about it so I'm just praying I can get it done and get it done soon. I am in a great mood just at the thought that I could seriously be considered for this surgery and he said within like 6 months, I could even see my IQ increase by like ten points; that's how drastic the changes can be with this surgery. I go in a couple weeks to see my regular neurologist and we'll see what he says; I'll get more info then and hopefully it's still good news. :D