Prayer answered

Bryan has suffered from epilepsy for about 7 years now. He would have grand mal seizures about 1/month. When we first moved to Tyler he started seeing his 5th or 6th neurologist. That Dr. had him start a new med that had less side effects. Unfortunately, the med didn't work well for Bryan. It actually increased his threshold and was causing him to have 3-4 seizures in a day about 3 times per month. It started getting very scary. That was in August and September of 2009. I had my appendix out in November of 2008 by a wonderful surgeon that I had become friends with over the past several months through my previous job selling surgical devices. He was one of the few surgeons that treated me like a human being. It was a God thing that he was the surgeon on call the night that I went to the ER. At my final post op appointment he asked us if we needed anything else. We asked him if he knew of a neurologist. Without hesitation he sent us directly to Dr. George Plotkin. He is world renowned and somehow ended up in Tyler, TX. My surgeon was able to pull a few strings and get us in to see Dr. Plotkin. It took about 6 months but we finally got to see him in September 09. Bryan and I were both in tears in his office. Not a single neurologist has spent so much time with Bryan trying to find out what was going on with his brain. He told us, "We will stop the seizures". It was simply amazing!! Bryan had his last seizure on October 23, 2009. He has now been seizure free for 1 year!!!! PRAISE GOD!!! We know that the whole thing was a God thing, no doubt. He is always watching out for us. Bryan will stay on the meds he is on for 5 years total. If he has no seizures during those 5 years, they will take him off his meds and consider his brain healed. The brain takes so long to heal but if you can keep from having seizures, it allows it to heal. Every seizure you have sets you back a little. What a blessing Dr. Plotkin and Dr. McGovern have been to us.