Baby who had 50 seizures a day now seizure-free after surgery at Children's Minnesota

For two parents in St. Paul, Minnesota, the birth of their daughter was supposed to be one of the happiest moments in their lives. But soon after Loralei was born, Nkaujfuah and Jonathan knew something was wrong."The seizures progressively got worse," Loralei's mother Nkaujfuah said. "I felt scared. I didn't know what was going on with her. I just knew something was wrong and I just needed to get her help."Lorelei was having up to 50 seizures a day. Medication wasn't working. "Seizures at that young age, especially five weeks of age, can be catastrophic in nature," said Dr. Nitin Agarwal, a pediatric epileptologist at Minnesota Epilepsy Group.Agarwal and a team of neurosurgeons at Children's Minnesota got together to come up with a plan."We all sat down and had a discussion about the things and decided to proceed with this procedure called a hemispherectomy," Agarwal said. It's a surgery where the neural pathways between the left and right hemisphere of the brain are separated. Lorelei