Yeah, sure...

Yes. Let’s do THAT,” I said to the third option.

They’d offered it to me nearly every time I visited the neurology clinic over the past four years, but in-patient video EEG testing sounded expensive, tedious and frankly like overkill for my pesky simple partial seizures.

But this time I said, “yes.”

Not because I’m sick, but because I’m sick and tired of taking medication that doesn’t work. I’m sick of all the hypothesizing about what’s going on with my brain. I’m sick of living with the fear that is epilepsy.

Options one and two were more meds.

Option four was brain surgery.