[Deep Brain Diarist]

Greetings! I just found out about this site and thought I'd come in and take a look.

I’ve been a radio news director, a disc jockey, a talk show host, and I programmed the “On Broadway” channel at XM Satellite Radio from 2001 to 2003. Now I'm a full-time writer-editor, I work from home most days and go into the office when I feel up to it.

I was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease in 2000 and had Deep Brain Stimulation surgery in June 2007 as part of a clinical trial to determine the safety and tolerabilty of DBS in early PD.

As I write this, I’m noticing a deterioration in balance and gait. But for the most part, I’m doing just fine.

I live in Elkridge, MD with my wife, Gail, my stepson, T.J., and our two doggies, Raven and Shiloh.

[Dmom3005]

Hi, and welcome to our site. ITs a wonderful place to find information
and people that are having some of the same things happening.

Donna

[Blessings2You]

Hello, and welcome to the community! Feel free to jump in anywhere...you'll find lots of support here.

[Darlene]

Welcome to NeuroTalk. Great to see you have come to be with us. Just let us know if we can be of any help. We are all here to assist each other as possible.

Again welcome, looking forward to seeing you around.

Darlene

[azoyizes]

Hello DBD, and welcome to NeuroTalk. This is such a nice place with so many friendly, caring, and helpful people!

We're so glad you found us!

Here is a link to the Parkinson's forum, if you haven't noticed it already.

http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/forum34.html

This is a link to the Social Chat forum:

http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/forum35.html

And here's one I like (Games and Such) to take my mind off my problems and have a little fun:

http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/forum104.html

I wish you the best. I have MS, and mostly hang out at the MS forum. Because of the MS, I've developed tremors that my neuro is trying to control with medicine. If you ever just want to talk, feel free to PM me.