Rebecca Simonitsch (right) smiles with her mother in 2001, the year she had her surgery. Rebecca Simonitsch
Rebecca Simonitsch
In the summer of 1995, when she was 15, Rebecca Simonitsch woke up in the hospital. She later learned she had had a series of convulsive seizures that put her into a coma. For the next three years, she took medication to prevent future episodes.
At 18, before she left for college, her doctors took her
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