Hey Bill...

November 20th is my birthday, and I always have a
happy-birthday-full-of good-things-that special feeling of it
being MY day

Sooooo,  I inviting you to share my birthday this year -
errrrrr... you can be my unidentical twin brother (smile)... and
you get all the good feelings and positive things that come with
having a November 20 birthday - including a very successful DBS!

YOU GO, GUY!

Barb Mallut
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-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Mason <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Friday, November 03, 2000 7:32 AM
Subject: DBS-STN surgery


>Hi all,  well my numbers up and i'm going to have DBS-STN surgery
Nov 20th.
>I've read up on it and talk to a couple people and i'm ready to
go.  A little
>nervous.  My Neuro surgeon is dr  schweitzer.  If anybody would
like to send
>me their thoughts about their surgery i'd be grateful.  thank
you,
>
>Bill m
>ps  here's a poem i wrote. enjoy!
>
>Fifty Doors
>
>
>You stand inside yourself and listen as your voice
>agrees to brain surgery
>
>Relax, if it's anything like a colonoscopy
>you'll be so out of it, who cares
>
>In a hall with fifty doors, options to burn
>now most of those doors are bolted
>
>Someone drops off the waiting list
>You are bumped up
>
>Gurney wheels squeak scrubbed hospital floor
>They come sooner than you expect
>
>Maybe it's better to get it over with
>You won't have to worry
>
>They'll use the latest equipment
>Microsurgery, laser knives
>
>You don't remember your blood type
>Better find out, get a couple pints
>
>Head shaved, sedated, fix crown to four points
>Scan with 3D MRI, surgery six to eight hours
>
>Cut and peel back the scalp, saw a hole
>Cut brain tissue bleeds liberally
>
>Tingling in you're fingers pinpoints ground zero
>Plant lead, attach micro wire to micro stimulator
>
>You're programmed and sent home
>Repeat procedure in eight weeks