David, always great to hear an optimistic story. Good for you and God bless. Give us the rest of the story with details of operation and drugs, with details of preoperation symptoms and results, and age. Also who did the operation and where? ----- Original Message ----- From: David Moreland <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2000 7:59 PM Subject: Fifth birthday > In just two and a half months i will be celebrating my fifth birthday since > Igo I was given my life back. It was august of 1995 when I had a bilateral > pallidotomy. prior to that time my life was made up ofthe most horendious > dyskinesia fr om the time i got up in the morning til I wen t to bed at > night. i was ready to go on disability. but that all changed. i am still > working for the Oregon Department of Revenue. > i thought i would drop back in to see what is being discussed by parkies > now days.