Why Choose The Home Referral Service Center

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I originally wanted to wait until after our upcoming family vacation to Yellowstone in June — I was taking the grand kids, and hiking with them was something I didn’t want to miss. But the doctor convinced us not to wait. That surprised me — I don’t usually trust doctors. But this one? Something felt different. So I said yes.

I had the surgery in April — just two months before Yellowstone. And yeah, it was scary. Someone was going to drill into my head. Even stranger? I was awake during the whole procedure. Talking to the doctors and nurses. Moving my arms and legs as they fine-tuned everything. It was surreal. But the craziest part? They gave me pain pills, and I only took one. That’s it. One pill. And I’m the kind of guy who doesn’t do pain.

And the results? Nothing short of life-changing.

Two months later, I was hiking Yellowstone with my grand kids. No shaking. No pills. For the past five years, I haven’t taken a single Parkinson’s medication. Zero. After needing 300 pills a month just to function, that’s nothing short of a miracle.

Would I do it again? In a heartbeat. I had nothing to lose, and everything to gain.

• If you're considering DBS or know someone who is, I encourage you to watch the video of the moment they turned on my right-side simulator. (They had already done the left side.) Watching the tremor disappear instantly — it’s like flipping a switch. It still blows my mind.
• DBS didn’t cure me, but it gave me something I thought was gone forever: my life. And I’ll never stop being grateful for that