Last month it was a malignant glioma. This month, it was brain surgery.
What’s next for Sen. Edward M. Kennedy? Conquering the world?
Nope, just some good ol’ fashioned radiation and chemotherapy.
Once Kennedy recovers from the 3 1/2 hours of brain surgery he successfully underwent yesterday at Duke University Medical Center (during this recovery time, doctors will treat and observe him for brain swelling, seizures, bleeding, and blood clots), he’ll head back up north to begin radiation and chemotherapy at Massachusetts General Hospital.
While the outlook for patients with malignant gliomas isn’t great, the associate deputy director of Duke’s brain tumor center, Dr. …read more

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy suffered a seizure today and, after undergoing a series of tests at Massachusetts General Hospital, is currently “resting comfortably” according to his spokeswoman Stephanie Cutter.
According to this Yahoo! News article, seizures are “little electrical storms in the brain” that “tend to be brief” and “can happen to anyone [...] especially if there has been some prior brain trauma.”
Cutter states that it’s unlikely anyone will know anything about Kennedy’s brain electrical storm for the next 48 hours. In the meantime, various political figures have visited and offered prayers including Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, New York Sen. Hillary …read more

Back in September I posted I’m Firing My Psychiatrist. In short, the post explained the reasons I had for firing my psychiatrist. Actually, the post explained the one main reason I had for firing my psychiatrist: He assured me that I could stop taking Lamictal cold turkey without even glossing over the potential risks for seizures that accompany quitting Lamictal cold turkey.
Yesterday, reader Patrick left the following comment under that post:
This discussion of lamictal is quite educational for me. I really don’t like the person I’ve become, the edginess, being short tempered and irritable all the time but my shrink …read more