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Listfriends - I talked to listmember Donna Kipp again today, and am writing to you with her permission. She had bilateral STN surgery on June 23rd at the University of Kansas Medical Center (Kansas City, Kansas). The neuro-surgeon was Dr. Steven Wilkinson, who has been doing stimulator surgeries for probably five or six years. He's very good and very experienced. Donna said the surgery was easy to go through. It took 4-1/2 hours. She felt wonderful afterward, and saw much improvement in symptoms, even though the stimulator hasn't been implanted yet. They started with just the electrodes in the brain. Tomorrow she'll have the stimulator implanted, and that will be programmed in the next few days. She feels like a new person - or the "old" Donna, perhaps. She also feels that the implants may be helping her cognitive function. Once she's home again in Texas, she'll write to the list and tell you all about it. Margie Swindler