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Thanks, Lee, I knew I could count on you, Ray ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lee Wu" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 12:39 AM Subject: Re: DBS/Are you turned off for MRI > Sorry Ray, Got carried away! No need to turn neurostimulators off for a > mammogram. > Yes ARC needs a battery, get someone to do it for you. > > Cheers, Lee > > > rayilynlee <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > LEE DO NEUROSTIMULATORS HAVE TO BE TURNED OFF FOR MAMMOGRAM? > > DOES ARC HAVE TO HAVE BATTERY? I CAN'T GET MINE OPEN AS MY HANDS ARE LIKE > PAWS. > > THANKS, RAY > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Lee Wu" > To: > > Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2005 2:53 AM > Subject: Re: DBS/Are you turned off for MRI > > >> Hi Ray, >> Mammograms are not the most comfortable of procedures. I had my doubts >> about the need last yr with my neurostimulators insitu in the >> subclavicular area. My sister was diagnosed with breast cancer picked up >> on a mammogram around the same time I (a little reluctantly) had mine so >> for me it's something I no longer resent when I think of her. >> Winnie regarding your access review controller... I'm with you regarding >> the panic but I was told to get a new nine volt battery every 3 months >> for >> it. >> >> Regards, >> >> Lee >> >> rayilynlee wrote: >> Just read one of Diane's posts which claimed in about ten years DBS as >> done >> now would be replaced by nanotechnology which would get hairlike >> electrodes >> to your brain without drilling holes in your skull and putting the leads >> under your scalp. >> >> I stopped having mammograms due to implants and had decided never to have >> another MRI, but guess I could survive being turned off again, I had to >> be >> when I had redo of left brain. The whole bed shoke in surgery. My problem >> is in explaining my condition to medical personnel who are not up to >> speed >> since I can barely speak. AAAAARRRGGGG!!! >> Ray ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Winnie Carolgray" >> To: >> >> Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2005 2:28 AM >> Subject: Re: DBS/Are you turned off? >> >> >>>I know in the hospital they insisted that they knew just how to do an >>>ekg. >>> They >>> sent for the night nurse and the thing that she did (turned them off >>> with >>> my >>> magnet and did the ekg then turned then back on. I was having >>> debridement >>> of >>> my stimulators (3rd surgery) and wanted to leave them on as long as >>> possible. >>> but two weeks after they had to remove my stimulators and I had to have >>> them xeroed out the time beore I had them removed. (I had both sides >>> done.) >>> >>> chow >>> carol gray in houston >>> >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> 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 >> >> >> --------------------------------- >> Do you Yahoo!? >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: >> mailto:[log in to unmask] >> In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn >> Yahoo! Photos: Now with unlimited storage >> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: > mailto:[log in to unmask] > In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn > > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: > mailto:[log in to unmask] > In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn > Messenger 7.0: Free worldwide PC to PC calls ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn