momnipotent said:

my cat at my moms who was my best friend for years, saved me from killing myself more than once

@Luvlyssa, my daughter has Sturge-Weber Syndrome, which is essentially an overgrowth of capillary blood vessels in the skin (causing a port wine stain birthmark) and brain along the path of the trigeminal nerve. The seizures are caused by the excess blood vessels, which behave like a mass in the brain and trigger the seizures.
We were incredibly lucky in my daughter’s case. Normally SWS seizures are intractable and surgery is required; also, if the seizures begin before age 2, children will often suffer neurological impairments that delay their development. However, our daughter didn’t begin having seizures until she was almost four years old, so her development was able to proceed normally and she does not have any delays or deficits.
According to her neurologist, in some SWS cases, the child’s brain realizes there is something wrong in one hemisphere and performs a sort of “natural lobotomy,” meaning it cuts the neurological links between the hemispheres to keep the seizures from spreading. That seems to be what has happened in her case. I just pray it continues.
As for meds, she takes Frisium and Topamax, along with baby aspirin to maintain blood circulation through the capillaries.

ETA: She'll be 7 in July.

@Luvlyssa, no, she will never be seizure free as long as the overgrowth of blood vessels is there. The "natural lobotomy" business just keeps the seizures treatable with drugs but can't get rid of them altogether. The reason SWS seizures are usually intractable is that the "bad" hemisphere begins recruiting the "good" or unaffected hemisphere into the seizures and that makes them very difficult to control. I wish her brain could heal itself, but unfortunately it can't in this instance.