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Tom is lucky to have a friend like you. I promise thoughts and prayers will be circling Sarasota. I had my DBS STN in Oregon 1996. I pray his turns out as good or better than mine. He is going to love it. >I just wanted to write to all of you on the list to ask for your support and >prayers of a friend of mine who is undergoing a Subthalamic DBS in Sarasota, >Florida on Thursday, Oct. 21. > >He is the reason I joined the list some 5 years ago and have been on and off >the list throughout that time. > >To give you some background on who we are let me briefly explain. > >We traveled to Denver, Colorado and LA a few years back researching the >Fetal Tissue Implantation and I have been to Palm Springs visiting with a >group of Doctors who gave a days worth of information on PD and its current >research and results. Dr. Lieberman was one of the doctors who gave a >presentation and I visited with him for a short while before the >presentation. > >In addition, I am on the Advisory Board of a local Parkinson's clinic in >Minneapolis, Minnesota and I chair the Regional Outreach committee trying to >reach out to other communities hoping to increase the availability of PD >specific clinics or at least allow our clinic to train them and use our >facilitiy and programming expertise as well as the library and other >resources we have to offer. > >The gentleman having the surgery was my significant other for five years. I >took a very active role in helping him with his PD. We have since separated >as of January this past year. But, I feel very strongly about continuing to >help his family deal with this disease as well as continuing on with the >Board that I have worked with for two years now. > >He is not very able to work with the computer any longer and never cared to >get that involved himself with the clinic, the Board, the internet or even >watch documentaries on the subject. > >His sister has now taken over that role for him after my departure and I >work with and through her to pass along all this information that comes >across on the list as well as anything else that can contribute to his >health and well being. > >He is scheduled to have the surgery on Thursday, October 21 in Sarasota, FL >by a Dr. Schumacher at the Neurological Research Institute of Sarasota. >They are a NPF Center of Excellence. > >I am asking for your letters of support that I can send to his sister and >deliver to him. I am asking also for your prayers. > >I will keep you all informed of his surgery as well as his outcome as time >goes on. > >We all need to help each other....which is why we are on this PD List in the >first place. By praying for one another, supporting one another and sharing >our information, personal experiences and helping each other know what is >happening in the world of television, government, and the written >word.....we will all live a better life. > >I thank you all for what I know you will do for Tom and his family. > >Sheila De Vine >[log in to unmask] jjjane http://www.geocities.com/soho/village/6263/pienet/hithgang/hitjaner.html