John seems to be understanding and vocalizing a little better this week, but the seizures are getting worse again. Both the number and strength of the seizures has been getting worse since my last post. We're not sure what to do about it. We don't want to return to the Lamictal. For now, we are just waiting this out and hoping it gets better. If it gets any worse, we will have to do something, though. He's close to falling with some of the seizures again, and we definately don't want to go back there again.

We went to an evaluation at a private therapy place. The lady that evaluated him was very good, but she was an occupational therapist. We're going back for another evaluation with the speech therapist next week. It seemed like a nice place and I hope it works out.

We got the Santa visit out of the way early this year. John still doesn't know Santa from any other person, and it's pretty tough to get him to sit for 1 second to get a picture. Yoshie sits him there and darts away and hopes that he makes some expression that is acceptable. It looks like he's smiling here, though it was really a whining face.

There is an interesting show airing on PBS that talks about epilepsy. We watched it last night and it covers some of the treatments that we have tried (VNS, keto diet, drugs). You can see it online if you have a fast connection:

http://www.epilepsy.com/media/HBHMHQ.asx