THREE YEARS OF DBS
HI JOURNAL,
I'VE COME TO TALK WITH YOU AGAIN.
THIS MONTH AND TO BE EXACT,
THE 20/th OF THIS MONTH OF OCTOBER,
IT WILL BE THREE YEARS,
SINCE I UNDERWENT DBS.
WHAT AN EVENTFUL THREE YEARS IT HAS BEEN.
IT WAS A GREAT WATER SHED IN MY LIFE,
A TRULY MAGICAL TIME FOR ME.
ON THUSDAY I AM TO HAVE,
TESTS AND CHECKS, YET AGAIN.
I AM REALY AN OLD HAND AT THIS NOW,
I'VE BEEN PUT THROUGH IT THAT MANY TIMES.
IT IS WORTH NOTING THAT THE NEURO-SURGEON,
WHO CARRIED OUT THE DBS PROCEDURE,
HAD ONLY SHORTLY BEFORE THIS,
HAD IN LEAGUE,
WITH BRISTOL UNIVERSITY IN ENGALAND,
PIONEERED A WAY OF DOING ALL THREE,
OF THE OPERATIONS,
WITH MAXIMUM COMFORT TO THE PATIENT.
ALL THREE OF THE OPERATIONS,
INCLUDING THE PLACEMENT AND POSITIONING,
OF THE ELECTRODES IN MY BRAIN,
WHERE DONE WHILST I WAS ASLEEP.
THANK GOODNES FOR THAT, SAYS I.
THIS PART OF THE PROCEDURE, UP TILL THEN,
HAD REQUIRED THE PATIENT,
TO BE IN A FULLY CONCSIOUS AWAKE STATE.
SO HIGHLY DO I REGARD PROFESSOR CHRIS LIND,
THAT ONLY LAST MONTH,
AT A CONSULATION WITH THIS GREAT MAN,
PRIOR TO MY DBS STIMULATOR BATTERY CHANGE,
I POINTED OUT THAT,
FOR THAT WHICH HE DID, TO AND, FOR ME,
I CONSIDER HIM TO BE,
JUST ONE DOWN FROM GOD.
AT AN EDUCATIONAL SEMINAR,
GIVEN AND HOSTED,
BY MY PARKINSON'S NURSE SPECIALIST,
THE FORMIDABLE, WELL RESPECTED AND LOVED,
MRS JANET McLOAD,
OF THE, 'SHE WHO MUST BE OBAYED' MODE,
MADE MENTION THAT PERTH, WESTERN AUSTRALIA,
THE AUSTRALIAN NEUROMUSCULAR RESEARCH INSTITUTE (ANRI),
THE VERY CLINIC WHERE,
I UNDERWENT DBS PROCEDURE AND,
WHERE THIS GREAT GENIUS OF A NEURO-SURGEON,
NOW PROFESSOR CHRIS LIND,
STILL OPERATES, ON MERE MORTALS SUCH AS MYSELF.
THIS LOCATION AND, THE AFORE MENTIONED,
UNIVERSITY IN ENGLAND,
ARE THE ONLY TWO CENTERS IN THE WORLD,
THAT CARRY OUT DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION IN THIS WAY.
IT IS, WITH AN UNASHAMABLE SENSE PRIDE AND GRATITUDE,
THAT AFTER UNDERGOING DBS,
I AM NOW IN A POSITION TO SAY THIS,
"'THAT DURING THE TIME I SPENT IN HOSPITAL,
UNDERGOING DBS PROCEDURE,
I THINK, FEEL AND BELIEVE,
I SAW, WITNESSED AND EXPERIENCED,
MANKIND AT HIS BRILLIANT BEST".
I AM A FORTUATE MAN,
A VERY FORTUNATE MAN INDEED.
YOU BET I AM.
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Replies
Stuart, congratulations, congratulations and congratulations again. Your pride in your doctor is clear and appropriate. Your sharing this news with all shows your great character. Keep it up you are my inspiration. Warmest regards, Alex