I honestly didn’t expect this to happen so quickly.
I’ve been a patient with Minnesota Epilepsy Group since 2000. After talking with my current doctor about the lack of remaining medications and potential surgical options, he explained that they have a weekly surgical conference and present one patient’s case to the entire staff. After hearing all of the information, everyone gets their input and the collective decision is what’s presented to the patient. My previous understanding was there was basically a queue, multiple patients in line ahead of me and it could be a while before they would discuss my case.
Instead, I spent about an hour on the phone with the doctor on Monday afternoon clarifying as much information as possible, making sure everything was accurate for his PowerPoint presentation the next morning.
So yes, I became a case study yesterday. And my one big request to people at this point is that you continue to call me Shawn, not “48-year-old Caucasian male.”