WOW!!!! What an amazing, miraculous story of your pallidotomy. Thanks for sharing with the PIE family. Jeanette Fuhr ---------- : William Harshaw <[log in to unmask]> said in part: When I had my pallidotomy in Dec '93, as Dr. Ronald Tasker, my neurosurgeon, made the lesion in my right globus pallidus, I could feel the rigidity leave the left side of my body. It has not returned. VI Skull bolted to the table Immobilized For the duration. Wide awake. No Sedation. The only sensation he acrid bouquet Of the drill going through bone Thee hundred minutes in the O.R. Alert. It worked. An end to deformed harmony. Technology and Humanity Combine to perform a miracle There is wonder in life In God's creation How do I thank the medical team They did their jobs Professionally Gave me new life. resurrection Good cheer and labour on some more Reap the joy I radiate. Walking Laughing. Your care released me from that older trap. I am Lazarus.