Peggy, I do my best money wise, to keep up but sometimes it's difficult. But, if you are a veteran, VA will PAY for your DBS, at least from my information that is the true. So if that is the case, I guess we do treat some of our veterans well......, .It is amazing how people down our health system, true, it's not perfect, but it's certainly better than Canada, and the rest of the world. .....I hate the medicare fraud, and over charging and I am the first one to call about this. As I mentioned, I wish Brig had considered DBS, but he would not, then the study you were on was considered, but his mental status was not good enough to handle that. Hope to see you at the forum, if all works out. Nest week, I have to fly to El Paso to meet my daughter who is coming back to the area because her husband is being re-deployed, and we are driving back to Pa. And I am also fighting my mother's nursing home, because Medicaid did not kick in when it should have, due to some glitch, never a dull moment in my life. Leaving in a few minutes to go see Brig 80 miles away, so I can clue the veteran's home(BTW, best care in state) in on Brig's donating his brain for research. Gerry **************Start the year off right. Easy ways to stay in shape. http://body.aol.com/fitness/winter-exercise?NCID=aolcmp00300000002489 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn