Dear Ticia-- I certainly understand your loving concern for your grandma, and hope you can get some ideas here how to help her. The surgical alternatives such as pallidotomy might not be appropriate, but if you want to learn about them, try to check our archives,about which you should have received info when you joined. If you can't find the instructions, etc., you can email Joth Cottingham, our"archive guru" who graciously offers help- <[log in to unmask]> Welcome aboard-- Camilla Flintermann,Cg for Peter 78/7,Oxford,OH