Isn't that how some books and stories continue? Well, in the same way, this last Sunday, September 10, was exactly six months to the day that I had my DBS implant surgery done! So... in this short blog posting I thought I would give a quick update on how things are going, along some advice for anyone else considering the surgery...
It's somewhat strange to think about. Right now, I have two wires implanted deep within my brain; I can feel the wires that are coming out of my brain under my scalp (since I haven't had the neurostimulator installed); yet I don't feel or sense the wires inside my brain at all ...
As I mentioned in Part 1 of my series on DBS - if you would have told me 5 years ago that I would have wires placed into my brain, I would have laughed out loud and exclaimed, 'No way, man, never in a million years!' But again, we change as things around us change ...