Surgery for Parkinson's

You mentioned surgery for Parkinson's, what is that? It's DBS, deep brain stimulation, and what they do is they whack a couple of wires into your brain, well they probably be more precise than that, but they, oh no I whacked a couple of wires and it wasn't bad actually, I've got one on target. So yeah, it's not without its complications, it's not without as dangers, obviously. Oh wait, as you know, also as you can have potential complications and dangers. But it's, they put like two electrical wires into your brain, into, I can't, I just can't I can't remember where exactly, but hopefully they will know. And then you have like a little battery packs on the end of your skin. You know, like the internal defibs. It's that sort of size. And then they turn it on and it stimulates the brain to fool it into thinking that it's got dopamine and stuff. And people say that it's, the people it's worked on say that it's miraculous, it takes them back 10 years. So, there are also caveats to that, because you have to, I mean, I'm still exploring it in Greece. And it's a worldwide thing. When I explored it in England, you had to be selected. A doesn't work for everyone. I met the age requirement because I was quite young. They tend to put in younger people, rather than sort of really old people. In which, I don't really understand. understand it's expensive you kind of you have it on you can't but it is it is on the nhs but if if you're a private in england uh you're looking at sort of 40 40 000 pounds but it's expensive but it is on the NHS but because the cost that there's like it there's a whole like it's like in a bariatric surgery you have to you have to this criteria you have to meet before they do it and same assuming same with DAB surgery there's a lot of there's a lot of criteria you have to to me before you, before you, how bad your symptoms are. Mine, when I was tested in the UK before I left, my symptoms weren't bad enough to warrant it. Because I can still function, I can still, I can still get dressed in under half an hour, which is, it sounds ridiculous, but that's what they give you. They give you half an hour to get dressed. If you can dress yourself in half an hour, then you know you did pretty good. So I didn't meet the criteria at that point, I was too well. In Greece they're not quite as fastidious, but there's still lots of hoops I have to go through to get it. And also, it's not something I, it's not something, you know, they can, if they're placed in the wrong, if they're in the wrong area or they get infected, you know, you can't, there are, there is a risk of dying. Or at least, you know, being turned into some sort of vegetable, which is not particularly, you know, I don't think I'd want that. So, you know, there are risks and also there's also a risk that it doesn't work. And then you have to actually check it out. So, you know, there's that. And there's that element, it doesn't always work. Like everything in Parkinson's doesn't always work. And you try Parkinson's, it either works really well or it doesn't work at all. There's no kind of in between thing. There's no sort of, well, it's a bit mediocre, but I'll live with it. There's no mediocre in Parkinson's. It works, it doesn't. In my experience, people might be thinking, well, that's not true, I've got mediocre drugs. But in my experience, for me, it either works really well or it doesn't work at all.