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I was reading an account of one woman's DBS experience from her son. The two suggestions I took away from that report was that his mother would have done better at the beginning of the surgical procedure if she had been briefly made unaware (by chemical means) to avoid the sound of a drill penetrating her skull. Additionally, while in the recovery room she was administered generic sinemet which she was not very responsive to, because she failed to mention or was not asked what medication she was taking specifically, the overall message here, being that you do not assume anything before such a serious operation. I am in the business of health education for Medicaid recipients. We are always trying to refine a simple list of questions for folks to take to their doctor as a precaution against overlooking something that needs to be asked or unintended intimidation by the doctor. If my memory serves me, there was something about a second operation for the other side because of somekind of bleeding in that region. I subscribe to Dr. Abe Leiberman's PD Digest and pick up a lot of info this way. That address is [log in to unmask] A couple of months ago, I copied the entire report I am referring to above, but have since, deleted it. You might ask for a copy from this pd service. Jann ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn