UCI Medical Center is the only facility in Orange County offering surgical treatment for epilepsy. But surgery is the end result of a battery of diagnostic tests, invasive or non-invasive. These tests can reveal an abnormal collection of blood vessels, a tumor or other lesions causing the seizures. If the non-invasive tests all point to the focus of the seizure, surgery to remove that part of the brain is performed. If more information is needed, electrodes are placed on the actual surface of the brain and sometimes into its deeper structures, to record seizure activity that will better reveal the seizure focus.
Patients are awake immediately after surgery and usually up and walking by the next morning.
Many are able to go home after four or five days. I would certainly call that worthwhile.