Re: Introduction to the info. exch. group

[David Moreland <davelm@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 05:32 PM 6/28/2002 -0400, you wrote:
How did your dBS-stn work out for you. Because I have had a bilateral
pallidotomy and wondered if it would betomy benefit, significant enough,
considering the risks to pursue a dbs-stn

>I am a newbie to the internet, so please excuse the errors. however, PD
>and I are old friends (or should I say "enemies").      i have had PD
>for 22 years.  I am also a retired RN who has worked with many PD
>patients, both as a nurse and a volunteer at the NPF in Miami, Florida
>for many years.   I was also married to man who has PD for almost 14
>years. We recently divorced . i worked with Wm. J. Weiner at the  Univ.
>of Miami movement disorder clinic ;  answering the telephone, counseling
>newly diagnosed patients as well as those younger patients like myself,
>who felt all alone afflicted with an "older
>persons' disease". I was the Michael J Fox of the 80's. only nobody knew
>Diane Ruby Carlin! but I got to speak to and meet so many courageous
>people that will always be in my thoughts because  their tenacity in
>fighting their battles with PD continue to inspire me and my personal
>war with such a clever foe.(I had a pallidotomy in my left-brain in 1998
>which was a success by my standards that I had a neurostimulator
>implanted in my right  sub-thalamic nucleus in July, 2001.  This DBS-STN
>was a success because of the teamwork of Dr. A. Lieberman, my
>neurologist at the NPF, Dr Rezack,
>Dr. Jaggett, and Dr. Howard Landy, my neurosurgeons and Drs. Carlos
>Singer  and William J. Weiner who supported me.
>
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Yours and His

David L.Moreland

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