>> I was having multiple seizures.
One day I had nine in a row.
>> It was socially isolating, her seizures were.
So that process of trying to be with friends
wasn't always there.
And there would be many days I would pick Morgan up
from school and friends would be
walking to the local ice cream place after school,
or going on play dates and doing things
and Morgan just wasn't included.
And she would get in the car and she'd cry.
>> The first seizure I had was on the soccer field
and all I remember was the play was going one way
and I just started randomly- I couldn't control it.
I started walking the opposite direction.
>> It was very much like someone who had a concussion,
but never had the injury.
And she was very confused
and we really didn't know what was going on at that point.
We began doing research online
and we reached out
and made an appointment with Doctor Robinson.
And from the moment we met her,
we new it was the right thing for us.
>> How're you doing?
>> Good, how are you?
>> Good. Any problems?
>> When I first saw Morgan it was very evident
that the seizures were having a significant
impact on her quality of life.
She was very aware, very bright, social girl.
So she was extremely anxious to find an answer
and her parents obviously were as well, as you might expect.
So after I met Morgan in clinic,
I asked Doctor Habela to see her
and evaluate her as a pediatric epileptologist
and then Doctor Habela reviewed additional records
and we came up with a plan.
So turns out that on Morgans imaging studies,
it shows that she had two legions.
She had a right frontal legion
and then she had some scarring in the right temporal lobes
called Mesial Temporal Sclerosis.
So it's very important for us as a team
to figure out were her seizures coming from one place
or are they coming from both places
and that would really effect her treatment options.
And there's primarily two options.
One is to go in with open surgery.
Another option we have now is to use laser ablation.
The laser ablation causes a similar destruction
of the tissue that's causing the seizures,
but the nice thing about it is
it's much less for the patient to recover from.
>> We felt that the laser ablation would be
what was best for her.
So whew, we went ahead with it.
>> Once we were in the operating room
I knew that I was again in good hands.
I would just think to myself, "Alright Morgan, this is it.
This is going to make a big change in your life".
>> So for the surgery for Morgan it took about four hours.
We take an MRI and we matched it up with the computer
and the trajectory.
We place a tiny probe down inside of her
brain to the area we wanted to ablate,
to get rid of the seizures,
and then we passed the laser fiber to that area
and make the lesion.
From Morgan's prospective, she had about
an inch long incision in the back of her head
with absorbable sutures
and not too much in terms of discomfort.
>> One of the great little things that John Hopkins did,
she had this little doll, her little dog Lucky.
So Morgan had a bandage wrapped around her head, obviously.
They did the identical bandage on Lucky's head
which from a mood standpoint really made her laugh
and it was just a nice touch.
>> What Morgan's big question--
>> When we all play basketball outside,
am I going to be able to do that with them this summer?
>> Yeah you can play.
>> I'm seizure free--
so far.
>> She's been outside
playing with friends in the neighborhood,
her sisters, and also now
she's getting that quality of life back that she's missed.