A little while ago I mentioned that our television station has been running ads for TS. Well, I'm pleased to say those ads are continuing, but the reason for my post today is to let you know of another program they screened last night with reference to TS.

It was one of those lifestyle programs such as Backyard Blitz.... where they do a garden makeover. In this program last night, they did a whole house makeover for the family of a teenager with TS.

The lass had a severe form of TS and had been very violent. Every room in the house had been almost destroyed with huge holes in the walls, and broken bathroom fittings, etc., etc.

She had been referred to one of our top neurologists who successfully performed deep brain stimulation on her. This neuro is just fabulous and it turned out to be the same one I was seeing for MS, before we moved states a while back...... and he's certainly the best I've ever seen. (I've even considered flying interstate just to see him, he's so good). He's also a nice person, and you don't often get that! It was so good to see him on TV talking about this.

Since having the deep brain stimulation surgery, all this girl's violent behaviour has stopped. She still has tics, but none of the violence that they had shown earlier in the program, and they did show some of her violent behaviour which was recorded prior to the surgery.

It was so wonderful to see such a huge change in this lass and her family, and I truly hope that many Australian's saw what this girl and her family had been through.

I'm sure it's probably not for everyone, and I wouldn't want to falsely get any TS sufferer's hopes up, but I did want to let you know what they'd achieved.

I commend Australian television stations for highlighting this condition, and increasing public awareness. Hopefully by showing more programs like this one, fundraising might become easier as time goes by, and that can only benefit each person with TS in the long run.

Oh...... they ripped out the whole interior of their house and rebuilt the house interior from scratch, and they refurnished it as well. Gave the family money in trust funds for their two children, and completely restored the vintage car the father had in the garage, but never had time to work on.

What a wonderful feel good program it turned out to be.