Chapters 42 and 43 of Seizure Mama and Rose are inseparable in my mind. The ups and downs blur together as I remember how desperate we were to help Rose find the source of her seizures and how determined we were to get her to the prom. It was a double time crunch.

We entered the EMU with fear and hope. The seizures kept coming. Rose was getting injured by falling. She was pulled out of school because of them. We knew that surgery may be her only hope. The source of the seizures had to be found for this to be an option. The two SPECTS were necessary to get that information. One without the other was useless. A comparison of her brain between seizures and during a seizure was critical. The ictal SPECT needed occur while the trained staff was there to administer the dye and do…