THEY REMOVED HER BRAIN!!

I am so angry right now! A friend of mine knows someone who has a very young daughter who suffered from seizures. They went to Mayo for treatment. After trying the "regular" regimen of drug therapy with no success & I think trying electro stimulation of some sort, the doctors there came up with "the only alternative." Do you know what that was? To do a lobotomy! In laymens terms, to remove part of her brain that they felt was causing the seizures.

My friend suggested to the mother that they first might try an alternative method just to see if it had any affect. The alternative method? Chiropractic. Now I realize that not everyone supports chiropractic treatment. . .and that is OK. . .but tell me something. . .if your child was having massive seizures & had been given every drug imaginable - drugs that have shown to stop seizures - and they had no effect - wouldn't you be willing to try something that would do no harm to the child before removing part of her brain?

OK, so they decided not to try chiropractic - they did the surgery to remove part of her brain - the part they believed to be the focal point of the seizure activity. IT DIDN'T WORK! So what did they suggest? MORE surgery to remove a larger area of her brain. Keep in mind here that there is a pretty significant amount of your brain that other parts of your brain can compensate for. This is why some people can kill off millions & millions of brain cells by, let's say, drinking copious amounts of alcohol & appear "normal" & function "normally." Again, before this surgery, my friend pleaded with the mother to explore another option first. Our chiropractor offered to drive to Minnesota himself to evaluate this little girl & treat her for FREE! Again, they denied the help & went with the surgery.

So now half of her brain is gone. That's right, half! And guess what? She is still having frequent seizures. Will she ever have quality of life? Most likely not. And guess what? They still haven't figured out what it is that is causing her seizures. They are stretching as far as guessing that it might be in tune with the cycles of the moon. For the love of God! Do these doctors think that possibly, maybe even a minute chance, that this could be due to the wiring system that controls the entire body? Couldn't it possibly be from something in her nervous system going the wrong way???? Wouldn't you be willing to take the chance that a chiropractor could help the situation before removing a child's brain???????

As you can tell, I'm a little perplexed by this & very upset over it.

This little girl doesn't have a chance.