Mortymoose
Honorary Master
So before this year comes to it's conclusion, my baby brother will have to be driven to the mother city yet again to undergo a ten hour procedure known as Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS).
At the young age of 41 he started to exhibit symptoms of Parkinsons that included tremors,shaking hands,slowness, slurring of speech .....
Initially this did not bother him, but as the years rolled on and he reached the age of 45, his symptoms got worse, he can no longer drive distances of more than 100km and his leg is starting to drag behind him.
I mentioned his condition in passing to a mate of mine who resides in the remote Namaqualand town of Springbok who in turn told me that he knew a retired doctor in that town who had the same condition, Parkinsons and had underwent DBS with life changing results.
He arranged for my boet and I to meet the retired doc and what an eye opener. The Doc explained how as the years went by his quality of life had deteriorated until he was basically bed ridden and shaking like a perpetual spider web in the breeze....
Then he had the ten hour operation and 14 days after the brain had swelled down they turned the computer embedded in his chest and then he basically got up and walked like a normal person again.
This he told us with great joy as he had his leg perched apon his bakkie wheel.
So I have taken my brother down to Cape Town on numerous occasions now for tests and it's almost time to proceed.
I was wondering if any of you out there have had any experience with this condition and treatment, Good or Bad.........
At the young age of 41 he started to exhibit symptoms of Parkinsons that included tremors,shaking hands,slowness, slurring of speech .....
Initially this did not bother him, but as the years rolled on and he reached the age of 45, his symptoms got worse, he can no longer drive distances of more than 100km and his leg is starting to drag behind him.
I mentioned his condition in passing to a mate of mine who resides in the remote Namaqualand town of Springbok who in turn told me that he knew a retired doctor in that town who had the same condition, Parkinsons and had underwent DBS with life changing results.
He arranged for my boet and I to meet the retired doc and what an eye opener. The Doc explained how as the years went by his quality of life had deteriorated until he was basically bed ridden and shaking like a perpetual spider web in the breeze....
Then he had the ten hour operation and 14 days after the brain had swelled down they turned the computer embedded in his chest and then he basically got up and walked like a normal person again.
This he told us with great joy as he had his leg perched apon his bakkie wheel.
So I have taken my brother down to Cape Town on numerous occasions now for tests and it's almost time to proceed.
I was wondering if any of you out there have had any experience with this condition and treatment, Good or Bad.........
