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Charlotte, You said: <<<I've heard of some people having a wonderful response to the DBS, a lot of those who have posted here have had a mediocre benefit. Is that so, and have any of you gotten worse, as you have on one side, or were left with any damage, like speech problems?>>> I won't go into the sordid details but here are the links to read about my outcome. I have yet to recover from the DBS surgery and am probably 250% worse than before I had it. We ordered my custom wheel chair with head support yesterday along with a hoyer lift and bed-side toilet. We also filled the Rx for glasses with prism's in them so that I will hopefully once again only see one of things. Admittedly, I am the 1/100 horrible outcome which most do not experience but you have to be psychologically prepared to handle it if you do become that next 1/100. I no longer think that my 16 days with the DBS was worth what I have had to go through. I have yet to recover and the original surgery was Dec. 21, 2001. http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/news/special_packages/deep_inside_deborahs_brain/ http://community.webshots.com/user/tenacitywins Hugs, Deborah aka Tenacity _________________________________________________________________ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn