On Sunday evening, Luz was celebrated by our community of family and friends at the home of Paul and Megan. About 40 of us gathered to share a great meal and stories. Everyone was in awe of Luz's courage and were overjoyed by her amazing recovery from surgery and her effervescence. She glowed with happiness at the power of the loving presence of this amazing community who have supported her with love, prayers, meals, companionship, celebrations, and rites of passage. Luz says that as she is feeling her strength return and anticipates her ability to regain her independence, she is looking forward to thanking each person individually for their contribution of support during her Parkinson's journey. She is inspired to give back by finding ways to help others who might benefit from her experience.
This Thursday, we will again journey back to Stanford for Luz's Friday D-day during which her Deep Brain Stimulation system will be turned on and calibrated to address her symptoms. Beginning Thursday evening she will again stop her medications so that on Friday, the system can be tuned to her Parkinson's symptoms without the interference of medication side effects.
As Paul said last night, the surgery was like building the airplane and now comes the equally important event of tuning the plane so that it has a perfect flight. Both aspects, surgery and system calibration, must be impeccably performed to achieve optimum results from this whole procedure. Luz has full confidence that this will be so, based upon her experience so far with the amazing team at Stanford: Dr. Jaime Henderson, Dr. Helen Bronte-Stewart, and their key staff members including Traci Hornbeck and Wendy Cole.
John Hawk, March 24
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