Mike Lykins, a 39-year-old Milford, Ohio, resident suffered scores of epileptic    seizures between 1981 and 2002. Today he is free of chronic seizures thanks    to treatment provided by physicians at UC Neuroscience Institute at University    Hospital and The University of Cincinnati College of Medicine.

Because he had tried more than a half dozen anti-epileptic medications with    no success, one specialist after another in cities as far away as Cleveland    and Baltimore all seemed to be recommending the same thing: a surgical procedure    to remove the portion of his brain that was generating seizures. The surgery    sounded frightening to Mike, so he delayed it, always hoping to find another    answer.

By 2002, though, the seizures were so overwhelming that Mike couldn’t    work more than three hours a day. He lived in constant fear, not knowing where    he would be or what he would be doing when the next seizure hit. Then Mike’s    path led him just 20 miles from his home to Cincinnati and Dr. Hwa-Shain Yeh,    an experienced neurosurgeon with UC Neuroscience Institute and the Mayfield    Clinic who specializes in epileptic seizures. Dr. Yeh found a dime-sized tumor    in Mike’s brain that had been missed. Though it had been present since    birth, it only started causing seizures at age 17. Mike decided to undergo surgery    to remove the tumor. Within a few weeks, he was fully recovered. The seizures    were gone.

Mike reflects on this life-changing experience.

“I’m feeling good. I have energy. I received excellent care. It’s like    I was a member of their family.”