A Scots artist who once had 25 seizures a week has donated her paintings to medics who performed life-changing surgery on her brain.
Helen Butler, who suffers from epilepsy, has been able to live an independent life after she went into theatre at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital (QUEH) in Glasgow in 2018. The 42-year-old channelled her stress into creativity and began painting a month after surgeons removed the hippocampus and the right temporal lobe of her brain to help control her tremors.
Four years later, she is now seizure-free and has even been able to pass her driving test. And as a thank you to the neurology department, she has donated a number of her pieces to the hospital to show her gratitude for the treatment she received.
