Category Archives: Nora’s History

Our local paper covered Nora’s 1-year seizure free anniversary! Front page of last Sunday’s paper! We’ve been local celebrities this week! Read the story here: http://www.gazettetimes.com/news/local/high-fat-ketogenic-diet-helps–year-old-keep-seizures/article_ca7dc366-6d66-541a-8516-4e87be41c9c0.html I joke that our paper loves a good human interest story more than anything else. … Continue reading →

Milestones are always a time to celebrate and reflect. Nora experienced her last seizure 1 year ago today. In response to that seizure, we decided to move her ratio up to 3.5:1 and we seem to have found the sweet … Continue reading →

On Friday, Nora and I traveled up to Doernbecher Children’s Hospital in Portland for her 4-month check up. We had been doing 3-month visits, but with her successful treatment Dr. Wray suggested that we spread out the check-ups a bit … Continue reading →

About 1 year ago now Nora first entered ketosis. Oh, those were a first few bad days. She would lie on the floor moaning for toast. I thought that she might chain herself to the refrigerator until we gave her … Continue reading →

I love Ted’s graph! A year ago at this time we were in the worst place for Nora, through October and November until we started trying the Modified Atkins Diet in December of 2011. We are so thankful that everything … Continue reading →

Things are going well.  Nora is developing well and having good days.  I haven’t posted an update on the data recently.  Check out the plot.  Nora has been free of myoclonics for over 5 months (!), and free of tonic-clonics … Continue reading →

Nora is no stranger to medical check-ups and procedures. In the times she has visited the dentist (the first time for chipped teeth at the age of 2), she is a cheerful breath of frilly fresh air in the office. … Continue reading →

We are happy to report another milestone in Nora’s diet therapy success: 14 weeks seizure-free–over 3 months! And even better, one week Depakote-free! She had her last dose of Depakote last Tuesday night, July 24. Since then we have continued … Continue reading →