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Wow, impressive!

Side note: I just saw on your Facebook that we have a mutual friend, how weird! Though we're both scouse so it's inevitable but still strange!

Nice, I work in neurosurgery and it's interesting to see a patient follow up. I've seen a fair few DBS implant procedures but I don't see the neuro rehab much, just the surgery. Usually once we get a patient to recovery we don't see them again, it's down to the consultant.

How long were you in hospital for? (Pre and Post Operatively) Did they give you the technical jargon for your procedure, did they describe it in layman's terms, or both?

What were the neuromodulation programming sessions like? I imagine it's somewhat like somebody is hacking your brain (I mostly see DBS patients who have parkinsons, so the results are often dramatic) I don't know what it could be like with epilepsy

How does it feel to have something implanted inside your body all the time, and how often to you have to go get the battery changed? (I assume you've got an IPG).

Finally, do you set off airport scanners? And if so, do you have a card which lets them know you've got a DBS in?

Amazingly, I went into work this morning and our first patient was having their electrodes removed after having deep brain and grid electrodes installed last week! What a weird coincidence! I hope they adjust as well as you seem to have. We don't use neuropace, we use medtronic dbs but it's the same idea.

Yeah, at the time it was hard to tell from the info given but it's much clearer now, we just had a neurostim seminar so it was fresh on my mind (no pun intended) and therefore my first assumption