>To: [log in to unmask] >From: [log in to unmask] (Geert Ari=EBn) >Subject: PALLIDOTOMY OR ELEKTRO-STIMULATION >Cc:=20 >Bcc:=20 >X-Attachments:=20 > >>To: [log in to unmask] >>From: [log in to unmask] (Geert Ari=EBn) >>Subject: PALLIDOTOMY OR ELEKTRO-STIMULATION >>Cc:=20 >>Bcc:=20 >>X-Attachments:=20 >> >>Hi, >> >>I'm Geert, living in Belgium (small country in Europe), 38 years old, married and father of 2 beautifull boys (Thomas 5 and Benjamin 3). I am as many of you a sufferer of Parkinson's disease. It began at my 17 th. >> >>My two biggest symptoms are : rigidity and slowness and when I don't take my medicines (Prolopa, Permax and Eldypril) also a non-typical tremor. >> >>Half off my life I'm suffering Parkie and now I'm standing before a brain-operation. I have the choise between 2 methods : >>1. Pallidothomy. >>2. Electro-stimulation. >> >>I like to have as much as possible information of this sort of operations= : >>- Positive and negative expiriences of people who have got one of these operations. >>- Is your personallity changed after the operation ? >>- Literature about it. >> =20 >>As you shall understand : >>I'm a young Parkie, so I have to take care of my family. I want to come back in the world of productivity. In my profession-life I was a teacher in elementary school. I like to go back to school if it is posssible. >> >>Can anyone help me out ? >> >>Greetings from Belgium, >> >>Geert Ari=EBn >>[log in to unmask] =20 >> > Geert Ari=EBn Young and Parkinson Society Belgium Tel./Fax : +3236440250 Adress for mail send by post : JEEPEES V.Z.W. PARKIE KAPELSESTEENWEG 135 2180 ANTWERP BELGIUM =20 ____________________ E-MAIL : [log in to unmask] FIDONET :