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Stan or Joan Snyder wrote: > > Dear Andy: I have read more complex explanations of scientific > procedures in my son's "Magic School Bus" books! While I appreciate the > fact that the more pallidotomies that you can have performed, the more > machines you sell; your company's description of the operation and the > risks involved is a bit understated > and in my opinion: oversimplified. As a 47 year old survivor of two > pallidotomies at the hands of an incredibly gifted surgeon, I know > firsthand the things that can go wrong! One slight slip, a nick, really; > and I couldn't walk or talk, dress or bathe myself, eat or have two > continuos thoughts going for two months. I attribute the fact that I > have made it back to wherever it is that I am now > to my Faith, to sheer luck & finally, determination. I do fell that all > PWP's need to have this information and to be able to look at it as an > option; but I don't think your storybook (yes, I found almost all of the > pictures at least storybook-like & at > the extreme-offensive!) adequately prepares the PWP to make that > decision. I'm sorry to be so hard on your presentation. Maybe I'm a PWP > with PMS! Egad > man-I hate that first picture...put a diaper on him & put him out to > pasture! > Anyway, now I've gotten myself so riled up that I almost > forgot-wasn't Irving Mills a composer, also. Seems to me I had a framed > piece of sheet music by him > hanging in my room back in my art deco daze! > > -- > Joan Snyder (47/8) "Do or do not. There is no try."-Yoda > [log in to unmask] > http://www.newcountry.nu/pd/members/snyder/page1.htm Dear Joan, I've included your whole message to make sure we haven't missed something- Where you mention "a slight slip, a nick" do you mean your pallidotomy was done via open surgery, with a scalpel? How long ago was that? I thought that pallidotomy is done not with a knife-like tool but a needle-like probe, with much less danger of what you describe (The benefit of pallidotomy in PD was indeed discovered by accident, during open surgery for removal of a large tumor from a patient who happened also to have PD). And the risk of injury from a misplaced lesion (usually done now by RF heating) or puncturing a blood vessel is still there. So I'd really like to know, was your operation(s) done with a knife or a needle? More details please. Cheers, Joe -- J. R. Bruman (818) 789-3694 3527 Cody Road Sherman Oaks, CA 91403-5013