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Hi,
If you don’t mind me asking, what does the specialist mean by “abnormal vessel “? That sounded kinda vague. Maybe I’m the old fashioned type. I prefer meeting my specialist face to face and not through a screen, even for my kid. I understand the challenges you will face going there. To be honest I live 17 hours flight time away from Mayo. My Filipino caregiver requires a visa but my nationality allows visa free entry up to 90 days.
I know Mayo is good with epilepsy treatment and if it can treat something which I have for approx 10 years and improve my quality of life, I’ll say go for it whatever it takes. After all, how many 10 years does a person have to spend like this?
If I hadn’t seek a 2nd opinion elsewhere, I wouldn’t have known and taken Briviact which seemed to work better. Neurologists tend to be a little more cautious. Just my opinion. At the end. Worse comes to worst, your son is back to where he started.
Cheers,
Louis
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@louissc Hi Louis, thank you for your response! I agree "abnormal vessel" is vague. I hope that it's just because I'm getting the information 3rd hand and the report is actually more detailed. We're still pending the appointment with the neurologist to review the MRI, so I'm hopeful that more information will be available then to help guide the next steps.
I appreciate your perspective - I know we are deeply fortunate to have the Mayo in our backyard, so to speak, and even for my son it's a short 7 hour train ride from Chicago. So if there is any complication at all (and I think there is. See: Abnormal Vessel), I think signing up for care at Mayo is the obvious choice.