Looking Out for the Good: Laser surgery helps boy with seizures

SALT LAKE CITY — Looking out for the good, one St. George boy’s life was changed by Intermountain Primary Children’s Hospital’s best-in-the-nation neurosurgery program.

Owen Jacobsen is a 12-year-old boy who suddenly began having unexplainable seizures.

Owen was referred to Intermountain Primary Children’s after a scan found a small tumor in his brain. He underwent a laser interstitial thermal therapy that is offered in only a few hospitals across the country.

Now, a year later, Owen is tumor and seizure free and enjoying his new nickname, laser-brain.

‘He’s better than ever’: boy finds relief from seizures following neurosurgery