Logbook of the failed DBS operation
It's been a while since my very first experiences with deep brain stimulation. Here is an excerpt from my diary entries.
TONY
Hello Hello, I'm still alive... =( ;-)), but I don't have a module intus yet.
Was quite an interesting experience.
I've been on dopamine withdrawal since last Friday and showed up to the clinic on Monday, nice and good. In the truest sense of the word, because very few experts there can imagine that I will come alone with my previous history.
They're losing faith that I'm the patient and not the attendant. Well, my wife had to work and the children had to go to school.
So I went to the info, had the way explained to me, then through the building to a station where I had to wait over an hour. Finally a bed, after four hours of rest (dopamine withdrawal makes you tired) the confirmation came, the room, or the bed, stays...
The next day several examinations, 50 min. CT /, 30 min. X-ray /, 30 min. blood count, 1 hour psychological test, medical history, medication history, etc. then specialist discussion: Prof., senior physician, neurologist, neurosurgeon, medical specialist for imaging Procedures, ward doctor, doctor in internship, medical students, ward management, medical. Nursing service, nurses, student nurses and some in some internship, (pharmaceutical representatives - ( ;-))
in any case, several rows of “very important people” – VIPs stand around the bed and watch me physically “deteriorate”.
In addition, there are always some tests to see whether you are still ticking correctly.
Even then I still had 100 of 100%.
Then a separate discussion with the neurosurgeon about the upcoming hairstyle O;-)
From then on comes the night, "Super", some would probably pay a lot of money to be able to experience it. Just imagine, you have about two to three hundred blunt knitting needles in your lower legs, they try alternately in 1/10 sec. Tack the sole of the foot until you almost pierce the skin (like a pneumatic deruster), which is in both legs, the arms, the trachea, around the heart, and some places that you didn't even know existed, or. that you can move it.
