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Bodley suffered from regular seizures as a result of a rare, chronic inflammatory disease.The procedure will allow Brianna to live a normal life even with only half her brain "turned on."..
A 6-year-old girl is recovering after undergoing a 10-hour procedure in which doctors disconnected half of her brain to try and eliminate her daily seizures...
"After surgery, her entire left side of her body is turned off," Brianna's mother, Crystal Bodley told KABC, a local Los Angeles outlet...
A month later, doctors diagnosed Brianna with Rasmussen's encephalitis, a much rarer neurological disease that typically affects only half of the brain...
Dr. Aaron Robison, a pediatric neurosurgeon at Loma Linda University Health, told Brianna's worried parents that her brain was shrinking as the seizures wrecked damage, according to KABC...
