Laura,

Please read my post on the Weekly Check in. I was in exactly your position last summer. I too experienced a shock (one of many) when I was being programmed. Medtronic is of no use at all. My neighbor called them last winter when I had a shock that threw me on my kitchen floor. There response was that there is no way I could have been shocked. Total BS? I understand that the Cleveland Clinic is wonderful, but as far as I'm concerned my neurosurgeon at Hopkins walks on water. He seriously wants to fix us. I watched him sitting on the foot of the OR table shaking his head and figuring out how to fix my brain. He did it. Not only is he brilliant, he really, really cares. His name is Dr. Fred Lenz at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore. I would fly around the world to get to him.

Mary