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| HUBRIS!!! I Am Guilty of HUBRIS!!! |
| 2007-08-09 10:37:13 |
AUGUST 9, 2007
All right. Yesterday, I wrote the following words…
Tonight I will leave the office at 3:30, get to the METRO 10 minutes later, arrive at Union Station by 4:15 and catch the MARC Camden Line train at 4:39, which is supposed to have me to Dorsey Station by 5:22 p.m.
Hubris! Pure, unadulterated hubris! Excessive self-confidence to the point of arrogance. I really, really thought I could leave my office and get home in a time frame much like I described above.
I am a fool.
Oh, I did leave the office at 3:30. And I caught a shuttle to the METRO Station just about the time I walked out the front door. That part of the trip home went very well.
When I arrived at the Medical Center METRO Station and rode the longest escalator in the world (I think it really is!) down into the bowels of the Earth, only then did I learn what horror awaited.
Someone was making an announcement over the loudspeaker. It sounded like this:
“Attention, METR...
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| A Rant (About Infrastructure) |
| 2007-08-08 14:37:33 |
(TRANSCRIPT -- AUGUST 8, 2007 PODCAST) We’re going to hell in a hand basket. As a country, I mean. And I’m talking about our infrastructure.
Bear with me. This has nothing to do with Parkinson’s or my DBS surgery. I just feel a long-overdue and righteous rant coming on.
The bridge collapse in Minneapolis, for instance… I’m frankly shocked that we don’t hear about stuff like that happening every day. Just look at the condition of our infrastructure. What ISN’T on the verge of breaking down?
Let’s start with our train system. Here in Maryland, we have the MARC trains that run from Baltimore to DC. I’m not sure what MARC stands for – it may stand for “Maryland Amateur Railroad Club.” In DC proper, you have the METRO – a combination subway/above-ground rail system. Not a week goes by where SOMETHING doesn’t break on either the MARC or the METRO…...
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| Billy Dent Head |
| 2007-07-23 10:32:53 |
It's no big deal. Really, it's not. But I seem to have developed two dents in my head. Since the healing of the surgical scars from my DBS surgery on June 13, I've noticed that there's a bit of a dent towards the front of the scar on the right side of my scalp, and another one just posterior of the burr hole cap that fills the hole the doctor drilled in my skull. It's nothing terribly serious... they look like what you might expect from a large hailstone hitting the hood of your car. My son the auto mechanic has offered to get his hands on a dent-puller at work to fix these dents, but somehow I don't think that is a good idea. Nor do I like his suggestion of filling in the dents with spackle and then sanding them down. But his heart is in the right place.
Now that the old bean is healing up, I will actually walk around in the presence of people without covering my disfigurement with a hat. When everything was still all scabby, I felt the ...
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| PD -- The Early Days |
| 2007-07-18 09:05:36 |
SUMMER 1972
The table was set for lunch, although they called it “supper.” I never understood that. To me the word “supper” was interchangeable with the word “dinner.” But I didn’t care what they called it. After a long, hot morning of hauling hay bales with my brother Bob and our friend Eric, I was hungry. And whatever what they called it, there sure was a lot of it! Hot fresh baked rolls with honey to slather over them. A huge bowl of boiled potatoes mashed with the peels still on them. Corn on the cob drizzled with melted butter. A pitcher of Kool-Aid that, for some reason, they called “nectar.” And chicken! Heaping mounds of it. Hot, crispy, golden fried. Delicious!
A guy didn’t make much money hauling hay bales on the Bornemann farm. A nickel per bale ...
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| First Programming -- Done! |
| 2007-07-10 13:54:00 |
I overslept this morning. Got home from Nashville at around 8:15, went to bed shortly after 9, got up at 4:45 a.m. I’m usually up by 4. It’s an occupational hazard. Now that I’m taking the train every day, I gotta be at the train station by 5:51 in order to get to work at or near 7 a.m. No time for coffee this morning, and that probably has more to do with my sense of ennui than does the fact that my Deep Brain Stimulation is turned on, programmed and functioning.The flight to Nashville was uneventful, except for the young father and his two darling, precocious little treasures who sat in the seats in front of me. I’m guessing they were around 2 and 4 respectively and neither child has yet developed an “inside voice.” They weren’t cry...
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| The Stimulators are IN!!! |
| 2007-07-05 10:05:00 |
Huzzah! I'm home. No more surgery! The neurostimulators are in. All that remains is the programming.Out of all three phases of DBS surgery, I think this has been the most painful, even though it was far less complicated than the insertion of the brain leads -- and far less demanding physically and emotionally. I wonder if this is what women feel like when they get breast implants put in. When I woke up from the anesthesia, one of the first things I noticed was that my neck hurt like hell. In my dazed and confused state, I wondered -- "What the hell did they do to my neck??? Was I hard to intubate? Did they have to twist me into unusual shapes?" But then I realized the pain was caused by what they had to do to run the wires from the...
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| Two Down, One to Go |
| 2007-06-16 20:15:00 |
June 13, 2007. Here I am, in the surgical suite at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. All smiling and happy, without a care. Dr. Konrad, my esteemed neurosurgeon, snapped this shot with his Treo 650 cell phone. Then he took a photo of what was going on there on the other side of the plastic sheet.That is correct, sports fans! I have undergone Bilateral Deep Brain Stimulation of the Subthalamic Nucleus -- at least as far as placement of the electrode leads. The final surgery will be on July 3rd (moved from June 25) at which time Dr. Konrad will implant the Soletra impulse generator. What you see in the picture above is the frame made for me as a result of the previous operation (the bone markers), with the drivers installed, and the probes being ...
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| One Down, Two to Go! |
| 2007-06-08 10:09:31 |
I have four hunks of metal in my head. And now I look like Peter Boyle -- the monster in "Young Frankenstein."Well... kinda. See, here's Boyle as the dapper, man-about-town monster...And here's me.I guess I look a little happier than the monster... although he DOES have more hair.As you can see, I was wrong about where these bone markers would be placed. Based on the images in the Vanderbilt DBS booklet, I thought the markers would be installed in a diamond pattern.I got more of a "box" design. Or, more accurately, I look like some sort of giant cat bit me on the noggin.So. One operation down, two to go. I'll have the electrodes implanted on June 13. Then I'll have the stimulators installed on the 25th. At that point, the surgeries will be ove...
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| Last Looks at a Pristine Dome (WARNING -- Graphic Images of Surgery!!!) |
| 2007-06-01 08:35:00 |
WHAT DOLEFUL PLANET IS THIS, RISING MALEVOLENTLY ON AN ARID HORIZON? WHAT EVIL DOES IT FORETELL? WHAT ILL PORTENT DOES IT BRING? BY WHAT NAME SHALL THIS FOUL SPHERE BE KNOWN?Nay, Gentle Reader! It is no planet, no celestial body spinning in the empty cosmos.It's my dome.Freshly shaved for the insult that awaits it this month... for today is the first of June... and when the month is over, no longer will I be the owner of such a smooth, pristine dome! So, take your last looks. Admire it.Were you HERE, I would even invite you to TOUCH it! Because in a matter of days, it will no longer be so smooth, so shiny, so enticing and free of blemish. They -- and by "they", I mean the good doctors at Vanderbilt University ...
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| Reality Rears Its Beautiful Face |
| 2007-05-29 10:58:00 |
By the way... Podcast #13 is online and available. Just in cast you're interested. You'll find the link at our home page -- http:www.billywisdom.com.One week from right now, I will be heading over to the radiology clinic at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center to have the four bone anchors drilled into my skull. They'll use these anchors to fasten the stereotactic platform to my noggin when the electrodes are inserted on the 13th. They'll put me under general anesthesia, put in the bone anchors -- which, to me, resemble nothing more than the kind of wall anchors you sink into drywall when you want to hang a heavy picture or mirror on the wall -- and then while I'm still being rocked in the gentle arms of Lady Anesthesia, they'll take advantage of my motionless condition to get CT and MRI photos so Dr. Konrad and his team can plan their surgical approach. Then I'll come home the following day and rest up for the big event.
At present, I'm restin...
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| Not Everything is PD -- Sometimes You Just Live Life! |
| 2007-05-21 10:00:27 |
First a housekeeping note. This week's podcast is now online at http://parky.billywisdom.com. Next week’s podcast will be a day late – hopefully not a dollar short. My oldest son, Peter, is getting married in St. Louis on Saturday, May 26 and I won’t be home until late in the day on Monday. So you’ll get the podcast on Tuesday. In fact, this next month will see the podcast being offered on an irregular basis. The following week, I will be in Nashville getting the bone anchors installed in my skull, so the podcast will likely not be available until Thursday that week. And then, we’ll hold off on a following podcast until after I get home from having the electrodes implanted on June 13.
This past weekend was a great one for just being alive. For one thing, my dogs invented a game. Really. They invented a game with rules and everything. I call it “Foody Foody Bowl Ball.” They just started playing it on ...
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| Podcast Episode #11 Online and Available |
| 2007-05-14 08:14:00 |
Episode #11 of "What's Shakin'? -- A Parkinson's Podcast" is online and available.
Here are the links to the news stories described on the podcast.
There was lots of press about THIS story last week.
The treatment options for patients with early Parkinson's expanded Wednesday with the approval of a new drug in patch form _ a first for medicines to treat symptoms of the disease. The once-daily Neupro patch contains a drug called rotigotine, which has not been sold before in the United States, the Food and Drug Administration said. The drug patch, made by Schwarz Pharma AG, is the first for the treatment of symptoms of Parkinson's disease.
Sounds like just the thing for parkies who either have trouble taking, or trouble REMEMBERING to take their pills. We’ll see how this one works out.
Here’s a story about the discovery of a link between PD and a condition known as narcolepsy.
Now a team of UCLA and Veterans Affairs researchers think they know why the two di...
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| An Elevator Counterpoint |
| 2007-05-10 14:27:16 |
3 p.m. yesterday.
I’m heading out the door. I’m one of those early arrivers, early departers. I get to work at about 6:30 a.m. and I leave at about 3 p.m. For one thing, traffic between here and home isn’t nearly as bad in the early mornings and early afternoons. For another thing, there’s always room in the parking garage when I get here. If you wait until a more reasonable hour – say, 8 a.m. – you’ll be lucky to find a spot in the parking garage. And it’s a long walk to the other parking lots on the campus. So I blow this pop stand every day around 3-ish.
I’m standing at the elevator when a colleague walks up behind me. This is someone I see from time to time, we are on a first name basis but have never really been what one would call conversational acquaintances. Still, when you’re waiting for an elevator, ya gotta say something.
“Makin’ a break for it?” I asked.
“Yeah, getting out of here early today,...
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| You Asked For It, You Got It! SOLETRA!!! |
| 2007-05-09 14:31:51 |
Well. That’s a relief.
One of my biggest problems is that I’m just too damn curious for my own good. Once it is clear that something is going to “happen to me” I want to read everything I can find on the subject. I want to know what kind of scars I’m going to have on the top of my head – the semi-circular ones or the racing stripes. I want to know what the bone anchors look like. (Hex nuts! They look like little hex nuts! And I get four of them. In my skull! But only temporarily – they get removed when I have the implant surgery.)
For the last couple days, I’ve been wondering about the IPG devices that will be installed on June 25th. I know there are basically two models made by Medtronics. One is the “Soletra” which controls one set of electrodes. The other is the “Kinetra” which controls two sets. I’ve seen diagrams of both in place. With the Soletra model, you get one under ...
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| This Week's Podcast Available -- "Lookin' For a Hat!" |
| 2007-05-07 14:20:55 |
This week's podcast is now available at http://parky.billywisdom.com -- in addition to the latest PD news, I talk about preparations for DBS surgery in 5 weeks -- including the search for a hat.Four weeks from today I will have my pre-op workup done at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. The next day, I'll visit the radiology clinic where I'll be put under general anesthesia. Four temporary bone markers will be inserted into my skull and I'll remain under for a CT and MRI scan. The surgeons will use these pictures to plot their course of attack in the deep brain stimulation surgery I'll have 8 days later on June 13. Then, it's back to the hospital on June 25th for the installation of the IPG devices which will control the stimulation the STN region of my brain will receive. And really, all I can do in the intervening days and weeks is wait -- and prepare.
I already told you about the medic alert bracelet I got last week. Of more immediate imp...
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| Neglecting the Blog? Mea Culpa! |
| 2007-05-04 13:20:00 |
OK... so I've been neglecting the blog this week. Mea maxima culpa. We're in a bit of a "nuthin' happ'nin" period right now. I've made the airline reservations for my trip to Nashville June 3-6 for the pre-op and bone marker implants, and just a few minutes ago I reserved two seats for my bride and I to fly to Nashville June 12-14 for the electrode implant surgery.The next big thing is my trip to St. Louis for my son Peter's wedding May 26.Here's a pic of me and my eldest taken a year ago Christmastime.Handsome lad... looks like my father did at that age. Someday, perhaps, I'll share the story about how he came back into my life after his mother and I went our separate ways and she withheld contact with the kids.Anyhoo...WE MARCH TO THE NEWSROOM!
STORY: ALL STEM CELL RESEARCH IS NOT THE SAME
COMMENTS: This guy nails it. "Embryonic and adult stem cells do not offer the same research and therapeutic possibilities. Adult stem cells are a v...
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| HOMEPAGE UPDATED, PODCAST ADDED |
| 2007-04-30 13:45:00 |
I've co-opted the web page I had been using to promote a standup comedy alter ego of mine, and will now use it to chronicle my experiences as a PWP. Check it out at www.billywisdom.com and drop me a line from time to time!Also, Episode 009 of the Podcast is up and running at http://parky.billywisdom.com -- check it out!...
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| Bigger Print, Escaping Dogs! |
| 2007-04-27 14:47:50 |
There. This should be easier to read.Anyway, it's still over a month away, but plans are being planned. I'll travel solo for the bone marker implantation on June 5th. Gail will go with me for the lead implants on June 13th. Then I'll go by myself for the IPG placements on the 25th. I can't believe that all this will be over and done with by the end of June, save for the programming.Also, I now know of an airline that has direct service from Baltimore to Nashville, cutting way back on the time and stress of air travel. From now on, call me a Southwest Airlines Frequent Flyer.Speaking of stress, Gail was letting the pooches out for a yard-moistening and was just out the door with Raven when our black border collie began barking in full alert-mode.Hillybill...
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| DBS Minus 50 Days |
| 2007-04-25 14:21:00 |
June 13, 2007That's when I'll have bilateral deep brain stimulation of my subthalamic nuclei. Got the word yesterday from Chandler down at Vanderbilt.On June 4, pre-op testing.June 5, insertion of the bone markers.June 13, DBS surgery.June 25, implantation of the IPG devices.OK -- now we have a date. And it's sooner than I thought it would be. Excellent. Better make those airline reservations. But in the meantime...TO THE NEWSROOM!
STORY: EXERCISE MAY LOWER RISK FOR PARKINSON'S DISEASECOMMENT: OK, so another benefit of exercise, if it's true. Personally, I think PD is a random occurrence. It happens to some, not to others. I feel that two people could live the exact same lifestyle, expose themselves to the same environmental toxins, drink the same amount of coffee and smoke the same amount of cigarettes, and one of them will get PD and the other will not. And as soon as we can truly understand WHY this is the case, ...
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| Raven and Gail -- Sisterhood of the Bad Mood Busters |
| 2007-04-24 15:11:09 |
You wouldn't know it was her first birthday. Shiloh didn't give any indication that she wasn't feeling well. Her nose was cool and moist and she had been playing with us just a bit earlier. But it was a warm day yesterday, and she had just been outside, and ANOTHER of our hillbilly neighbors had just rounded up ANOTHER escaped dog that had invaded our yard (at least this one was playful and didn't want to fight), so poor Shiloh was just plain tuckered out!Poor Shiloh. And we weren't the only ones who noticed. Shortly after the above photo was taken, our 2-1/2 year old border collie Raven decided to take matters into her own paws. She walked over to Shiloh and woke her up by nudging the paw hanging over the edge of the cou...
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| Back to the Newsroom |
| 2007-04-20 15:22:39 |
I've been so wrapped up in my own situation -- what, with the recent conclusion of my first 8-day Droolfest and my subsequent randomization to the surgical group in Vanderbilt Medical Center's clinical trial of DBS in Early Parkinson's Disease that I've been neglecting the PD-related headlines. Now that I'm back in the dugout, waiting on word as to when I'll have the surgery, let's get up-to-date with some of the recent news and developments gleaned from the World Wide Web.TO THE NEWSROOM --
HEADLINE -- Cigarettes, coffee may lower Parkinson's riskCOMMENT -- Yeah? I've been drinking coffee since I started sneaking it out of my mom and dad's coffee pot in my early teens. And I've been a cigar smoker since I was 17. So what's MY problem? Maybe the NEXT story explains it...HEADLINE -- Dairy Increases Parkinson's Risk in MenCOMMENT -- I see. It's the CREAMER in my coffee... and the fact that I once lived in Wisconsin.&nb...
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| Hey, It's Good to Be Back Home Again! |
| 2007-04-19 19:44:00 |
Nothing says love like the look in a doggy's eyes when she's on your lap, just so happy to see you after being gone for 8 days. Oh yeah, Gail was glad to see me, too! Raven almost knocked me down when I walked in the door. Shiloh, our nearly 1-year old shep was also happy, but she's not the "wear my heart on my sleeve" type. While Raven piled onto my lap as soon as I was on the recliner and smothered me with kisses, Shiloh was content to kiss me with all four feet on the floor over the arm of the chair. Last night Raven -- who usually sleeps at the foot of the bed -- cuddled up with us near the head of the bed. She must have been chasing rabbits in her sleep. They are her sworn enemies. I got kicked over and over again as a result.&nbs...
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| Day 8 -- the Droolfest |
| 2007-04-19 01:11:14 |
7:12 AMAt last, we reach the end of the Droolfest. Sometime after brekky, Chandler will put me through the paces of the full UPDRS. Then, I guess around 11 or so, Dr. Charles will take care of the Part III of the UPDRS. Then the "opening of the envelope" and we'll find out what's what. This has been a very interesting experience. For one, I didn't know I was as impaired as I am. I must have certainly deteriorated in the months since I went back on the Stalevo... perception is everything, and I might have a different perspective on it now, but I can't imagine that I lived my life every day feeling as bad as I do now. It actually hurts to open and close my right hand. My walk is more of a stagger -- not as b...
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| Day 7 -- the Droolfest |
| 2007-04-18 01:28:16 |
9:17 AMSo far today, I've survived "Lump o' Egg" and the Blood Pressure Torture. Now the rest of the day is mine until about 3:30, when I will begin my shamble to the psych hospital for the cognitive testing. Hope they don't mind that one of the forms has coffee spots on it from the great Coffee Spill of yesterday. Numbers were still kinda high -- but not bad -- with the Arm Purpling Blood Pressure Procedure from Hell. I personally think a big part of it is that I'm not on the Stalevo and my whole body is in a state of perpetual clench. Whatever. Hopefully at or around this time tomorrow, we do the final testing, I get randomized, and I can take a Stalevo and rejoin the human race, walking erect and speaking clearly again.6:27 PMWent to have the cognitiv...
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| Day 6 -- the Droolfest |
| 2007-04-17 02:51:26 |
7:31 AMIt's still a half-hour until brekky. I'm pretty sure "Lump o' Egg" will be back on the menu today. You can't go more than a day with no "Lump o' Egg." No doubt, there are abstracts in medical journals to that effect. I found an occasion for a little impromptu humor this morning. I had just gotten out of the shower and was shaving, when my nurse for the day -- a jolly little lady named Eunice -- came in to check on me. She said that if I needed anything, I should be sure to press the call button, as she would be pretty scarce today ... they have a patient who is getting her blood drawn every 15 minutes. I opened my eyes in faux shock. "A new needle every 15 minutes? Sweet Jesus! Is that a punishment? Did she press the call button once t...
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| Day 5 -- the Droolfest |
| 2007-04-16 03:17:01 |
8:57 AMHow odd. "Lump o' Egg" took the morning off. Chese omelet instead. I feel somehow... empty. It's another dreary, rainy day in Nashville... doesn't look like I'll be getting outside any time today. Even with the Ambien, I had trouble getting to sleep last night... just couldn't shut my mind off. Got up at about 7-ish. Gonna be rough getting back into the routine when I get home later this week. MAN, am I looking forward to getting home. Everyone here is perfectly lovely, especially Christa -- the manager of the place. We always have a nice chat about this, that and the other when we do the 16x blood pressure thing in the morning. Dr. Charles is supposed to come in to do my "field sobriety test" later today, but that's ...
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| Day 4 -- the Droolfest |
| 2007-04-14 22:18:43 |
8:25 AMMmmm. "Lump o' Egg." I will miss my daily "Lump o' Egg" when I'm done here. Does that mean I'm suffering from "Stockholm Syndrome"? Watched "Law and Order last night. The story was about a college student with PD who killed another student while attempting to assassinate an Ann Coulter type for speaking out against embryonic stem cell research. They showed the dude in court in full-blown dyskinesia, and the prosecutor said "hey, he had no trouble sitting still in my office." The dude's lawyer said, "that was him on medication, this is him off meds." Bullshit. That's just the same sort of crap Limbaugh was spreading. One does not get dyskinetic from NOT taking meds. It's a small thing, I suppose, but it spreads the kin...
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| Day 3 -- the Droolfest |
| 2007-04-13 20:55:14 |
9:51 AMSlept through the night like a little angel. Ambien. Good stuff. Not feeling particularly hindered this morning... more "slow" than "tight". The typing is starting to slow down and get a bit difficult. But nowhere near "bad" just yet. There was some sort of power outage early this morning. Got woke up when it came back on and the BP monitor near my bed started going "bee-DOOP! bee-DOOP!" over and over again. It's done something bad to the TV here in the room, too. I have the volume turned up all the way on the bedside remote, and you have to be laying in bed by the speaker to hear it. When you press the "volume" button on the TV... it changes the channel. But at least, you can still tell when you're watchin...
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| Day 2 -- the Droolfest |
| 2007-04-13 03:26:10 |
9:10 AMIt sucks to wake up early here. I crawled out of the sack at about 5:45 because my body still thinks we're on Eastern time. Breakfast doesn't come around until 8 am. So there's 2+ hours with little to do. And the TV reception was crappy... it's cable/Dish TV or something like that, but it was all snowy and impossible to watch. I got cleaned up, watched last Monday's episode of "24" online. By the time that was done, the TV situation had been remedied. At 8, brekky showed up, and it wasn't bad! No "Lump 'o Egg" today... it was a cheese omelet, and it wasn't bad. A couple bacon strips, a tiny cheese danish, cornflakes, orange juice and coffee. At 8:30, my day nurse Christa (she's also the manager of the GCRC) came in. S...
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| Day 1 -- the Droolfest |
| 2007-04-12 16:17:36 |
9:58 AMHey! The computer's working! The IT guy had to come in and add the wireless network to my network connections, but that's done and once again I'm in touch with the world. Crapped out at around 9 last night, woke up at 4 to take a pill, then slept in until about 6:45. Took a shower and laid around waiting for brekky, which showed up at 8. Sausage links, "Lump 'o Egg", French Toast, cereal, orange segments, a tiny blueberry muffin, apple juice. No coffee. Then my nurse of the day, Christa, came in and took my blood pressure. 16 times. I'm not kidding. It's part of the protocol. First sitting, then standing. Then 2 minutes later while standing. Then once each 30 seconds for 6 minutes. My poor arm was pu...
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| The 8-Day Droolfest -- Day 0 |
| 2007-04-11 16:57:18 |
It's Day "0: of the 8-Day Drool Fest -- the first of the several visits to the Vanderbilt University Medical Center for eight days off the meds. Let us keep track of each day's events, say wot?7:16 AMWoke up, as usual, shortly before 4 AM. Time for a pill. Hit the hay quite early last night -- a bit after 8. Was gonna stay up to watch "24" but I was falling asleep on the recliner. Stalevo doesn't seem to have all that much impact on the "fatigue" part of PD. Added to this, the stress of my hillbilly neighbor's dog getting loose again and attacking MY chained-up dogs in MY yard. The cops are now involved. Anyhoo -- we'll head to the airport in a bit more than an hour. Gonna be a lot of sitting around today -- nearly a 4-hour layover in C...
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| Fresh Podcast -- Hot from the Oven |
| 2007-04-09 13:55:00 |
Episode 6 is up and ready. Check it out at http://parky.billywisdom.comI'll do better on the blog this week. I'm leaving for Vanderbilt University Medical Center tomorrow for what I'm affectionately calling the "8-Day Droolfest." Daily updates start tomorrow....
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| Go Poke the Podcast!!! |
| 2007-04-02 14:11:00 |
The newest Podcast is up and ready for download! It includes chats with the lead investigator and clinical trial coordinators in the DBS in Early PD trial at Vanderbilt.Check it out! http://parky.billywisdom.com...
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