Geert, That is wonderful news; thank you for posting your great results, as well as your reduction in meds. I'm on the list in Kansas City to have a pallidai stimulation done, hopefully by the end of the summer. Congratulations! At 4:08 PM 2/26/96, Geert Arien wrote: >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)). (snipped) >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). -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Peace from the clouds" \--*MH*--/ Jeffrey R. Romanyshyn, M.A., M.H. Email: [log in to unmask] Poet/Ph.D. student: Mythological Studies "When we look deep into the cosmos, we look far back into time, and realize, the universe is what happened yesterday." (Me)