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GoCats76
Male, 50, Phoenix, AZ
"I had Deep Brain Stimulation surgery in April, 2008 and am feeling great with two of my most challenging Parkinson's symptoms alleviated."
12:27pm, September 1, 2008
Switched On For The Very First Time Mood
Monday, May 12, 2008 | A General Update story

Hey, Hey!   This really works!!!   We spent 5 hours at the Muhammed Ali Institute at Barrrow's with my one of many Neuro docs.   He hooks me up magnetically to the "computer" something that looks more like a over-sized touch-screen PDA and evaluatues the 2 transmitters then set the both to no-shake mode in all of 5 minutes.   The result, absolutely no shaking in any part of me.   Amazing.   I cannot even make myself shake.   Next up, straighten my left foot so I can walk.   Since I have a severe case of dystonia in my left foot, I cannot walk without Sinemet on board.   Again,  he hooks me up to my right transmitter (right side brain controls left...) and turns up the voltage until I feel tingling in my left leg.   He then makes me go through the Macarena barrage of testing; touch your his pencil then my nose, Stomp my left foot then right...   He says now walk.   I stand up and am able to walk down the hall, some.   Frankenstein's monster...absolutely no parallels.   After many adjustments I can make it with no meds.   It's slow but huge progress in 1 day.  Same stuff next week.

 

Side note:

 

An email from Brad...

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Hey everybody,

If you see your lights flickering tomorrow about noon it's just Don getting turned on.

Let's have an intense day of prayer for him that things go well.

See you at the next party,

Brad

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Christine later informs us that at 12:15 to the minute when we activated the transmitters, at Elizabeth's and Christine's workplace, all the lights in the building dimmed. Oh yes, God winked at us!

UPDATED GOALS

Get Back To Functional

Progress 85%

Encouragements: 1

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