hi all At 09:06 1999/07/22 -0700, jjjane wrote, in pppart: >Bill, >I, too have had a second chance at life. You couldn't have expressed >it better. I had my bilateral STN DBS at Oregon Health Science >University. It is as you say, a new lease on life and it certainly >does give a new perspective as to the direction I have taken since.... >I am here to tell you, you have more hurdles ahead. My battery went >dead in May of this year and I have fallen deeper into the abyss than >ever before. I feel near helpless. The medicine doesn't work any more >and the tremor is unbearable. I have an appointment to get it replaced >but it seems ages away, Aug. 13th. Keep in touch Bionic Bill, we have >a common partner. >jjjane >http://www.geocities.com/soho/village/6263/pienet/people/hithross.html jane's tale of bionicity is one of the hole-in-the-head-gang tales in the pienet/people section of my website i wonder if bbbionic bbbill would consider adding his story to this illustrious group? jjjanet janet paterson 52 now / 41 dx / 37 onset snail-mail: PO Box 171 Almonte Ontario K0A 1A0 Canada website: a new voice <http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Village/6263/> e-mail: <[log in to unmask]>