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Bravo Ray. Go girl Ervin McCarthy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rayilyn Brown" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 2:06 PM Subject: DBS/dystonia > yep, it helped my dystonia, tremor, rigidity - it is also used for stroke > victims, which I am looking into for my mom, who has bad spasticity due to her > stroke. > > I got through the awake brain surgery very well, but Dr. Waltz was not > satisfied with position of left brain electrode placement, so he only did implant > for right brain/left side. He said it was like flying an airplane - you have > to go by the instruments which said the placement was correct, but X-ray said > no. They used to do one side at a time anyway. > > I don't think I will ever be NORMAL (was I ever), but this is amazing. Feel I > must have this redone - booklet said repositioning was not uncommon. > > Bionic Ray > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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