Carol Dont think of it as YOUR failure. YOU have failed at nothing --- DBS has failed you! It just is not suitable for everybody, and doctors are not rushing to prescribe it for everybody any more. One of my close friends died after DBS, and I have been told that my combination of symptoms make me unsuitable for the surgery. You are one of the brave pioneers who was brave enough to attempt a treatment about which not enough was known at the time. Think of yourself as a hero. YOu never failed nothin' ! Dolores Buente wrote: >Dear Carol, > >I'm sorry to hear that you've had problems with your attempts at DBS. I >think it takes a brave soul indeed to go through the DBS procedure. I am >keeping my hopes up that we will soon see some clinical trials with stem cell >replacement and that successes with this procedure will lead to treatment and >cures for the whole community of Parkinson's patients in the very near future. > >Dee > > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >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