-- [ From: Donna Kipp * EMC.Ver #2.10P ] -- I hate to be the bearer of bad news but I think that many people ( including myself) have unrealistic hopes and maybe a deaf ear to the downside of the Palliodotomy. We only seem to hear the positive. A friend of mine recently (last month) had a bilateral palliodotomy by Dr. Iacono at Loma Linda and he has had no improvement at all. In fact he feels he is worse off.