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Now that I have a surgeon who is at least willing to take a look at me, I have one enormous problem; getting the money for what will be a costly operation. My parents just don't have the cash lying around for a $20,000 operation. I am currently covered by medicaid, that's "Aid" not "Care," i.e. title 19, because I am only 26 yrs. old. Dr. Lozano, the surgeon who would examine me has stated that a thalamotomy for CO poisoning would be totally experimental, due to a complete lack of documented cases of this. In other words, mine would be the first. Wouldn't this designation of experimental make it free of any cost? Another question I have for the more knowledgable members of the group is: Why would bilateral lesions on the globus pallidus (the damage that was done to my brain), call for creating a lesion on the thalamus? Jacob Drollinger