John continues to have longer seizures on most days, but we haven't seen any over 10-15 seconds since last week.
He had a great Christmas Eve with no longer seizures at all. All of the excitement of Christmas led to 3 longer seizures, though.
I guess we're getting used to them now. And, it's a big relief that they haven't progressed to the point they were last year. So, far he has been able to bring himself out of them within 20 seconds. Or, maybe the VNS magnet is helping to bring him out of them.
We think John is doing better cognitively. He's still not communicating much, but it appears that he is understanding more and more. I also witnessed him sitting down and turning the pages of his book for probably 5 minutes. For a kid that usually can't concentrate for 5 seconds, this seemed like a big step. This could be because of the increase in Felbatol or the removal of the Lamictal. As long as the seizures don't get worse, we're not going to reintroduce the Lamictal. We'll trade seizures for development, up to a certain point.
We're scheduled to increase the Felbatol again next week. Hopefully, we'll see even better things with that.

Santa brought John a bag of 100 balls, which he was really excited about, though he seems to have gone back to his old set of 5 or 6 balls for the most part. Not sure why that is. Santa also brought the kids a big realistic remote-controlled dinosaur. We were worried that it might scare John, but he pets it just like a cat.