Teresa - Thank you for the warm welcome. I am also very interested in the answer to your wireless connection question....
Mkane - I cant really answer your questions - I'm an Australian,and aware that our health systems are very different... but I can tell you that you know you are ready for DBS when you start to look forward to it- rather than fear it, when the pharmacological cocktail we swallow to enable us to move - no longer brings us the effective symptomatic relief it previously did, and the side effects of such cocktail are almost as bad as the disease itself.
So when your life sucks, there is still some hope.
Cheers
Take care
Cate