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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" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> 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 <[log in to unmask]> 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