My young brother just successfully had DBS op!
He is almost fifty, battled for almost a decade! Watched him deteriorate! Wife left him! HIs young son looking after him! Could not not walk, stumbled everywhere and was falling a lot.
We eventually got the medical aid to come to the party and I took him down to Cape Town three weeks ago for the operation! it was dark when he went in and it was dark ten hours later when he emerged, straight into ICU for observation.
Ten days later it was the moment of truth, the programming..... The great reset, we hoped....
Cut to the chase, my brother can now drive again, walk without any noticeable signs of distress and the shaking has practically gone!
The most important thing being that he has decreased his tablet intake from 12 tablets a day to one!
What a game changer. My brother has got his life back and as the young programmer explained to us, the tech is changing so rapidly that there are bound to be breakthroughs!
She reckoned only about seventy people a year in South Africa have the device implanted into them. Most doctors out here still prefer to try and handle the disease with tablets.
I am thankful for the advancement in technology!