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At 05:32 PM 6/28/2002 -0400, you wrote: How did your dBS-stn work out for you. Because I have had a bilateral pallidotomy and wondered if it would betomy benefit, significant enough, considering the risks to pursue a dbs-stn >I am a newbie to the internet, so please excuse the errors. however, PD >and I are old friends (or should I say "enemies"). i have had PD >for 22 years. I am also a retired RN who has worked with many PD >patients, both as a nurse and a volunteer at the NPF in Miami, Florida >for many years. I was also married to man who has PD for almost 14 >years. We recently divorced . i worked with Wm. J. Weiner at the Univ. >of Miami movement disorder clinic ; answering the telephone, counseling >newly diagnosed patients as well as those younger patients like myself, >who felt all alone afflicted with an "older >persons' disease". I was the Michael J Fox of the 80's. only nobody knew >Diane Ruby Carlin! but I got to speak to and meet so many courageous >people that will always be in my thoughts because their tenacity in >fighting their battles with PD continue to inspire me and my personal >war with such a clever foe.(I had a pallidotomy in my left-brain in 1998 >which was a success by my standards that I had a neurostimulator >implanted in my right sub-thalamic nucleus in July, 2001. This DBS-STN >was a success because of the teamwork of Dr. A. Lieberman, my >neurologist at the NPF, Dr Rezack, >Dr. Jaggett, and Dr. Howard Landy, my neurosurgeons and Drs. Carlos >Singer and William J. Weiner who supported me. > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] >In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn > Yours and His David L.Moreland ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn