Harrisburg, Pa. - Jean Oxceva loves to dance. Being in the hospital didn't stop him from showing off his moves. He recently spent two weeks at PinnacleHealth's Community Campus with one hope: that doctors find a medicine that will stop him from having the seizures he's suffered since the age of three.

By hooking patients up to different monitoring devices, doctors can see exactly where in the brain the seizures originate.

"By being able to see their seizures, see what they look like, see what their brain waves show at the time, that can sometimes alter their treatment," said epileptologist Dr. Paul McCabe.

Some seizure medicines can make the patient's condition worse. The monitoring helps prevent that from happening.

Whether patients get surgery or a different medication, doctors say it tends to work out as long as they can see the seizure. They usually need to monitor more than one. Once they saw two of Jean's seizures, they were able to give him a new course of treatment and a new outlook.

"Jean had been in the hospital four or five times in the past year before we brought him in to be monitored, and he hasn't been back since," McCabe said.

That's music to Jean's ears as he tries to live an active, seizure-free life.

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