Brain SURGERY

-Hi my name is Michael

              I had brain surgery 5 years ago and have remained    seizure free for this period of time and I am still taking two 400 C tegretol.  I do not have to see my neurologist at London Health Sciences Center in London Ontario Canada until 2008 unlessI have a problem. I am seeing a psychiatrist in Windsor Ont for depression as I find it hard to cope  with my past and present, as I am  unemployed  and 57 years old.  I worked for 18 years until I was placed on a midnight shift and went without sleep for three or more days at a time and started going in to states of hallucinations.  I had a scar tissue on my right hand temporal lobe and had my first seizure at six years of age.  I underwent surgery on the September the 17th 1999 to remove this scar tissue.  It is great to be seizure free, but it is hard not to reflect on my past life and how wrong it went; As for the hallucinations I had seen five psychiatrists the first four had treated me for panic attacks and each one I disagreed with their prognosis however when I went to the fifth psychiatrist he did some background history checks and linked the hallucinations to my epilepsy and the scar tissue.  When I had a severe attack on February 1998 he became very concerned and directed me to the London Health Sciences Center to see a neurologist and it was with this visit  that things started to lead to my operation  and my  seizure free status.

                                                                                            Michael lapain

                                                                                            53-109 Brien Avenue East

                                                                                             Essex Ontario Canada

                                                                                              N8M 2N9