WONDERFUL NEWS, Geert! (BIG smile on face) I feel the same joy for you as I did for myself when I had my successful pallidotomy. TO HELL WITH PARKINSON'S!!! Barb Mallut, [log in to unmask] ---------- From: Parkinson's Disease - Information Exchange Network on behalf of Geert Arien Sent: Monday, February 26, 1996 4:08 PM To: Multiple recipients of list PARKINSN Subject: pallidal stimulation Hi All, I like to tell you all that I've got a pallidal stimulation at the university of Gent on the 26th of januar. I was the first (young) Parkinsonian who got this new surgery in Belgium.... Gone stifness, gone slowness, gone tremor, gone dyskenisea,... I have to take now half of medication...(5x1/4 prolopa (levodopa), 4x1/2 of Permax (pergolide) and 0 pills of eldypril (selegiline)). A new life can begin... Soon, I hope that I can go to work again as primary school teacher. And now a few weeks after my surgery there are 4 young Parkinsonians whom are waiting the same surgery. What I will tell you is that there is hope for all the Parkinsonians around the globe.... " TO HELL WITH PARKINSON'S DISEASE !!! " With a warm heart from Belgium, Geert Arien (If you are interessed in more detailled information about this surgery, please write a message to me).