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Both your letters struck me as so similiar to my own, whoops THAT won't cheer you up...Hah! Seriously, welcome to the group. Ron, I am going through the same problem, where the untreated side of the Pallidotomy, is rapidly worsening. I am trying to wait patiently for an apointment with my specialist at ubc in Vancouver, B.C. in late feb. I am buoyed with hope from a recent BC parkinson's aassoc. newsletter which talks withthe partner of my surgeon about how they are gearing up for a 2nd oper (!!!) on former patients, I was third or fourth in BC. I am 40 now, surgery 2 yrs ago, diagnoosed at 29. So hang inthere Ron... To Jacob, I also shared your experience and understand your rage. When fetal cell surgery was dfirst discussed in the new england journal of medicine, I was ecstatic. I was youngand willing to undergo any risk any where.... I appled everywhere, polite rejections. More and more despondent, I attemptedsuicide. This helped lots! sarcasm! Helped destroy my marriage, my chances at being accepted... Several years ago the Canadian govt. finally commissioned a million dollar study,"Royal Commission on new reproductive technology" looking at every issue under the sun, including a section on acquiring, use of, fetal tissue. After years of study and nother delay while it was translated into our other official language, it was available to the public. I bought the huge thing and finally found tthe minute section that says the Canadian gov't should open their blody eyes and start funding research and doing the procedure. HALLELUAH!!Then it got buried in our useless home for politicians that can't get elected any more (SENATE) where it remains to this day years later. As far as I know, two tiny studies have taken place... Is this cheering you up? It's making me mad. So I sympathize my friend, and just hopeyou don't give up. Bill