I pray you are able to have your "test drive" just as planned. I think I referred to it as a test drive in the article I wrote for my Doc to place in a med journal..... yeah, I think that was the case, alluding to the patient taking the wheel at the stage of permanent implant just like I was allowed to program the device under the watchful knowledgable gaze of the Boston Scientific rep as my Precision Plus SCS was given over to me to fine tune it to MY BODY just like the product branding says..... Precision Plus. How more Precise can the programming be than to have the patient FEEL exactly what happens with each program tweak they initiate????

For me programming was that ultimate God Sign this was absolutely right, as thusly programmed I have now gone two years without any tweaking sessions or revisions surgeries at all because the Precision Plus is finely tuned to my very personal needs. Maybe when you get past the test drive with hopeful outstanding results, you will face the permanent and be allowed to sit at the computer to manipulate the keys. It was not a frightening or overwhelming process at all...... quite natural actually, as though one is sitting at the edge of their bathtub drawing water for a relaxing bath, testing teh temperature..... needs a little more hot.... evening out, testing again and noting the water is just right before you shut off the water and go AHHHHH because you have drawn a bath which is as YOU like it.

Even so with programming the stim under the practiced supervision of the rep, you are not engaging in a guessing game with the rep at the controls... instead, the rep makes sure you are not hurting yourself as you cause stim to flow within your body knwing full well exactly how it feels. A little too much there in the lower leg, and not enough up higher? You vary the signal yourself to fine tune according to your subjective feelings, and finally you arrive at the AHHHHH moments of selecting each of several programs necessary to allow you the care you need with the device.

I am so glad to have it work as I needed it, and I know Coral Toe is the same! We are a small club, self programmed unit holders, but it just makes sense. Hi Ho Boston Scientific for allowing us to program it for our needs!!!

Fires down near Colorado Springs have been devestating and disruptive to so very many, among those friends of ours as well, one of whom I have knewn since we graduated highschool together. He also a lawyer has done well in practice, and has a fome for his family in the very heart of where fire has stricken in teh hills to the northwest of the city. I wait to see, not wanting to burden him with a call at this time.

Prayers for all so affected are definitely appreciated!

Jan, you are keenly in my prayers as you approach the Trial/test drive as I hope you are able to get instant relief such as I knew the day the Trial unit was inserted for me.

Praying,
Mark56