Why is Joel in the Hospital?

I believe I need to clarify why Joel is here at Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA. Several people have asked. After being seizure free (as far as we know) for two-and-a-half years after his surgery, he started having seizures again about a year ago. At first it was one or two a month, then gradually they increased until now. Now he has anywhere from five to fifteen each week. That is what has brought us here. We avoided it as long as possible to give him more time to hopefully understand more and therefore not be as scared, but we couldn't wait any longer. Raising his anti-seizure meds didn't help decrease the seizures. So we are admitted for pre-surgery testing, evaluating what his options are, hoping that another surgery is not in his future, but not ruling it out either. They are trying to catch seizures on the video EEG, did a PET scan to see what parts of his brain are functioning, and they will do a MRI to see what his brain looks like now.