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Dear Ron, Thank you very much for your detailed message. It gives me a much clearer picture of your experience with it. And thanks for the tip on the controller with the lights. All the best to you both now, and in the future. Yours, Charlotte On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 16:33:24 -0700 RON HEIMBACK <[log in to unmask]> writes: > Thanks to all for the response to my inquiry. Paul, thanks for the > information regards "cross talk" as I had not thought of that > possibility. Charlotte, let me assure you that the operation in our > case was a real miracle. We just watched the tape of my wife that > was > made before the operation and it brought tears to our eyes to see > how > she was struggling to walk and the tremors she had. Now she has no > tremors and can get out of a chair and walk normal like other > people. > Her endurance is still getting better and recently we walked the > mall > for the first time in months. The Neuro cut her back about 50 > percent on > her meds after the last operation, however she has slowly crept back > to > almost 80 percent of the old dosage which still beats a sharp stick > in > the eye.. We feel that her comfort is as important as anything else > at > this time. Her handwriting and voice are almost "normal" now. We > feel > that we have some control of this damned disease again and perhaps > in > the future we will try turning on her other stimulator to see if her > system can tolerate it better as she is still recuperating from a > couple > of major surgeries. We are one of the fortunate ones that have the > new > controller with the lights that tell if she is on or off and it > works > great. If you go to the Medtronic site and search for model 7438 > therapy controller you will see a working model that you can click > on. > Ron Heimback > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: > mailto:[log in to unmask] > In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn