December rings in as the most joyful time of the year.
The current year is coming to a close, the Holiday Celebrations all mean different things to different people, but most always represent happiness and good wishes. You will notice that a giving spirit exists, unlike other times of the year, if you look around.
Unfortunately, many homeowners feel the bind of being ready to enjoy the holiday but trapped with a big task. They are desperate to exit their current loft, condo or house and give themselves a big Christmas Gift – a NEW place to call home.
Here’s how you and I can help. As a result of my team’s work with over 5,000 families over 20 years and three recessions, we have developed a unique program to quickly get an acceptable “cash” offer on any home for market value. So we are giving Home Owners wanting to make a move an extraordinary gift this holiday season. For December, we will guarantee, in writing, the sale of an area home in 30 days at a price acceptable to the homeowner. In the event there is no sale, we’ll pay the homeowner $5,000. The homeowner and I need to agree on the price. We do that starting with a simple, FREE consultation.
Here is what you can do to help!
If anyone you know, including yourself, is considering making a move, we would like to offer them a FREE, No Obligation to Sell for Top Dollar Consultation. On this call, we’ll discuss just how they can make their move, get what they want, and do it with the least hassle.
AND while we are on the phone, I will instantly send over a FREE Special Report titled “Costly Home Seller Mistakes to Avoid When Selling During the Holiday Season.” Just like we are thankful for you and your business, I am confident your referrals will be thanking you for steering them in the right direction on getting their home sold!!!
*A GREAT Guarantee: Sold in 30 Days, or I pay a $5,000.00 Cash Penalty!
*A FREE Consultation to Discuss What Price Can Be Expected.
*A FREE Special Report that details Mistakes to Avoid When Selling in Today’s Market.
AND remember, YOUR referrals help the Kids!
We are still on a mission to raise $25,000 for Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles CHLA, so we donate a good portion of our income from home sales. As you know, CHLA does a tremendous job of helping kids fight through and survive heart transplants: stuff that many times rob the life right out of young people.
Attached is a story of one child’s life being saved. CHLA survives on Sponsorships and Donations.
So YOUR REFERRALS REALLY DO HELP THE KIDS!
Who do you know considering buying or selling a home you could refer to my real estate sales team?
Not only will they benefit from our award-winning service, but we donate a portion of our income on every home sale to Children’s Hospital right here in Los Angeles. Your Referrals Really Do Help the Kids…
I want to make it easy to refer your friends, neighbors, associates, or family members considering making a move, so here are your options:
1. You can go to entar.com/refer and enter their contact info on line or forward the link to who you know considering a move.
2. Of course, you can always call me direct as well at 213-880-9910.
Corey Chambers, Broker DRE#01889449 #referralshelpkids #entarlovesyou
Who do you know considering buying or selling a home you could refer to my real estate sales team? Not only will they benefit from our award-winning service, but you can rest assured a very worthy group of children will benefit as well!
To refer your friends, neighbors, associates, or family members considering making a move, just give me a call or pass on my number to them!
In my career of helping families sell their homes and/or buy another, we have met some wonderful, loving, caring friends. People like you! So for those you know that are considering a move, you have my word that we will do our very best in helping them buy or sell the place they call home.
I hope this special month of Showing Thanks brings you much joy and happiness. With all my appreciation,
Corey Chambers, Broker | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ DRE#01889449
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P.S. We love honoring our past clients like you. Read all about that at: www.ReferralsHelpKids.com
I have attached an article that demonstrates the great work done by CHLA and how your referrals really do help the kids right here in Los Angeles. Keep em coming!
Corey
Why I Support Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
I grew up right here in the Los Angeles area. Born at St. Francis Hospital. When I first heard about a young person close to our family suffering from a life-threatening disease and getting treated for that at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. It was then that I began to pay more immediate attention to their work at that hospital. Since then, I have learned that it is a collection of hard-working health care professionals, most making their home right here in the Los Angeles area, all coming together for a common cause. That cause is to help young people overcome unfortunate health issues that life sometimes throws our way.
Being in the Los Angeles area, a California native, I take pride in supporting so that I can do the good work these people do at Children’s. My team rallies around our annual goal of raising money and donating portions of our income to help Children’s in their quest to heal young people when they need healing. My team and I are committed to providing outstanding results for buyers and sellers referred to us by our past clients. I have discovered that Children’s Hospital Los Angeles shares similar commitments to their patients. And since their services survive on sponsorships and donations, we are happy to contribute and proud to support them.
Over the years our team has helped our friends, family, clients to buy, sell or lease a home, we have met some wonderful, loving, caring people.
People like you!
So your referrals can be assured that not only will they get the award-winning service we are known for but also the guarantee to back it up, but that a solid portion of the income we receive will go toward a very worthy cause.
CHLA Epilepsy Specialists Help Narek Say Goodbye to Seizures and Return to What He Loves
Narek was experiencing five or more epileptic seizures every day. After posterior quadrant disconnection surgery at CHLA, he now celebrates one year of being seizure free.
When he’s not at school or playing soccer or basketball, 11-year-old Narek loves to draw. “I draw lots of things, like dragons, dinosaurs, flowers, cake, and funny faces,” Narek says.
Meeting Narek today, it’s hard to believe that not long ago, his epilepsy frequently kept him from enjoying his favorite activities. “When he was first born, everything was normal,” says Arman, Narek’s dad. “We were discharged from the hospital, we went home, and that night his skin turned blue.”
Arman and his wife, Yepraksya, quickly brought Narek back to the hospital in their hometown of Glendale, California. They were soon transferred to Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, where magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) revealed that Narek had had a hypoglycemic brain injury, an issue similar to a stroke in which low blood sugar causes energy failure and damage to cells in different areas of the brain.
Soon after, Narek started having seizures, which were initially treated by medication. But by the time Narek was 8 years old, his epilepsy no longer responded to medications. He was having as many as five seizures a day and needed to wear a helmet due to frequent falling.
Through advanced imaging, specialists in CHLA’s Comprehensive Epilepsy Center were able to pinpoint the area of Narek’s brain responsible for the majority of his seizures. After a specialized surgery, Narek has been seizure free for over a year.
“It’s been so good,” Arman says. “There is no fear that Narek is going to have a seizure anymore. He’s able to do so much now and its just been such a positive change for him.”
Narek’s early experiences with seizures
Six months after his initial brain injury diagnosis as a baby, Narek’s brain activity went back to normal. He was weaned off meds and stayed seizure-free for several years.
Then, at age 4, the seizures came back. His care team tried several first-line medications, but the seizures gradually became more frequent. By the time he was 8 years old, Narek’s condition was worse than ever.
“He was having seizures every day,” Arman explains. They were referred to Madeline Kahan, MD, at CHLA’s Comprehensive Epilepsy Center.
“I first met Narek and his parents in February of 2023,” Dr. Kahan explains. “When I met him, Narek was already on several anti-seizure medications and was having five or more seizures every day. But still he was outgoing and such a joy to be around, and his family was so lovely and gracious.”
At this point, Narek’s epilepsy had become “intractable,” meaning that two or more medications were failing to stop his seizures. For an individual in this situation, there is only a 3% chance that any other anti-seizure medication will work. It was time to start exploring other treatment options for Narek, which would require extensive testing of Narek’s brain using a variety of imaging technologies.
“That was, to be honest, a big relief for us that there could be another option besides medication,” Arman says. “And so we began about a year and a half of testing.”
Cutting edge tests highlight new treatment options
Fortunately, as a Level 4 Epilepsy Center, CHLA has the highly specialized expertise and technology needed for these tests. “Without access to the detailed evaluations that we have at our disposal, Narek may not have had the outcome that he ended up having,” Dr. Kahan explains.
Dr. Kahan, along with the entire team at the Comprehensive Epilepsy Center, used high resolution magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), with advanced imaging techniques involving epilepsy protocols, positron emission tomography (PET), magnetoencephalography (MEG), extended electroencephalogram (EEG), and detailed neuropsychological analysis to begin determining the optimal treatment plan.
Throughout this evaluation process, Dr. Kahan would share the various test results with the entire CHLA epilepsy team, including epileptologists, surgeons, neuroradiologists, and neuropsychologists, to help interpret the images and determine next steps.
Without access to the detailed evaluations that we have at our disposal, Narek may not have had the outcome that he ended up having. — Madeline Kahan, MD
Virendra R. Desai, MD, the Surgical Director of the Comprehensive Epilepsy Center, became a key part of Narek’s care as well. “In the event that all these specialized diagnostic tests show that seizures are starting in one specific part of the brain, a surgical solution is clear,” Dr. Desai explains. For Dr. Desai, Narek’s EEGs were particularly important, as they record the brain’s electrical activity and can help to pinpoint the part of the brain where the electrical signals responsible for seizures start.
But for Narek, these tests further revealed the complexity of his epilepsy. The electrical signals that caused his seizures appeared to be coming from different parts of the brain, a slightly less common occurrence than seizures originating in one place. Further testing and more detailed information would be needed to develop a treatment plan.
To get a more precise read of the brain signals, Dr. Desai suggested a different type of EEG called a stereo EEG or sEEG. Instead of attaching electrodes to Narek’s head, this process would involve making an incision and, in Narek’s case, temporarily placing nearly 200 electrodes on the surface of the brain itself. “Typical EEGs have the limitation of having to detect brain waves through a patient’s skin and skull,” Dr. Desai says. “This severely impacts the ability to identify where seizures are coming from. Narek thus underwent an invasive EEG, where electrodes are placed underneath the skin and bone, which is far better at identifying what we call the ‘bad brain.’ This technique has about 100 times better resolution than a standard EEG.”
This new EEG gave the doctors the information they needed, leading to further conferences with the full epilepsy team. “We found out that 80% of Narek’s seizures were coming from the right side of his brain, and the other 20% were coming from the left side,” Dr. Desai says. This was a complicated discovery, as it didn’t necessarily point to a simple solution.
In a procedure called a posterior quadrant disconnection, doctors could surgically disconnect the portion of the brain responsible for the majority of Narek’s seizures, but the few seizures that started in the other side of his brain might still occur. Side effects that can result from the surgery include changes in memory, vision, and awareness of certain body parts and movements. This procedure was one among several potential courses of action.
“We laid out all options for the family, from the least invasive option to the most invasive, making sure that this was a collaborative decision that involved the family at every point,” Dr. Kahan says.
The options included vagus nerve stimulation (VNS), which was minimally invasive but unlikely to reduce Narek’s seizures as significantly as other more targeted options. Another choice, responsive neurostimulation (RNS), could be helpful at reducing seizure frequency and was a strong option. But the method which the doctors believed would have the best chance of success was to perform the posterior quadrant disconnection surgery to permanently remove the source of most of Narek’s seizures, and if any seizures continued, to implant an RNS device to minimize those.
Moving forward with trust
Understandably, this was a big decision for Narek’s family. “We had some time to think about what we wanted to do, and it was stressful,” Arman says. But Narek’s seizures had become serious enough that his parents were homeschooling him because it wasn’t safe for him to be at school on his own.
Narek and his family decided to move forward with posterior quadrant disconnection surgery near the end of November 2024. “We felt good deciding to do the surgery because of the confidence of the doctors, and because of the trust we had in them,” says Yepraksya, Narek’s mom.
The surgery, also called posterior quadrantectomy, took nearly 6 hours. Dr. Desai carefully removed a portion of the temporal lobe on the right side of Narek’s brain, where most of the seizures originated, and disconnected his ‘bad brain’ from the rest of the brain. Afterward, Narek and his family stayed at CHLA for two weeks of rehabilitation, then returned home.
Since the surgery can have an effect on physical movements such as walking and speaking, Narek attended physical therapy at CHLA until his movements were back to normal, and occupational therapy once a week to help ensure his speech was clear.
We felt good deciding to do the surgery because of the confidence of the doctors, and because of the trust we had in them. — Yepraksya, Narek’s mom
A year of zero seizures
Following the surgery and recovery in November 2024, Narek had just two seizures through the month of December.
And then, they stopped completely.
Now, Narek has been completely seizure free for nearly a year. He has not had to have the RNS device implanted, he has been weaned off two of his five anti-seizure medications, and Dr. Kahan hopes to gradually remove the other three medications soon. Arman describes the family’s immense relief: “Everything’s just so much better because Narek can go everywhere now with ease,” Arman says. “He’s much more active and less tired than before.”
Narek has also been able to return to school for 6th grade. “Now he has a routine,” Arman explains. “He goes to school from 8 to 2:30, has a chance to socialize with the kids there, and then comes home and spends time with his two younger siblings. It’s like life has been normalized again.”
Narek was especially thrilled to resume drawing pictures and playing his favorite sports. “On the weekends, I play soccer and tennis now,” he says with a smile.
The family now checks in with Dr. Kahan every three to six months just to ensure that Narek is progressing well. In Spring 2025, they even attended a CHLA-organized epilepsy symposium at the Kidspace Children’s Museum in Pasadena, where they spoke with another family who was considering a similar surgery. “We talked with them and told them about our experience to hopefully help make their decision a little easier,” Arman says.
Narek and his family continue to feel thankful to everyone at CHLA who helped them. “From our experience, everything was positive,” Arman explains. “From start to finish, through the testing, the appointments, and the surgery, the doctors were calm and reassuring. We’re so grateful.”
Learn more about the Comprehensive Epilepsy Center at CHLA.
Patient story and photos courtesy CHLA
How You Can Help:
Refer your friends, neighbors, associates or family members considering making a move: entar.com/refer or call Corey at 213-880-9910
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