Hello
Hi!
How are you?
Good thank you
One question about hairdying
I forgot, I said two to three months
and I can't remember if that was underestimating
I've never been blonde before but I've got a posh do
I'm going to in October
I've been nominated to attend Woman of the Year
Woman of the Year!
Crikey!
May I have a wee look now?
We're going to need to dismantle the hair a bit
Do you want me to take my clips off?
Yeah sure
Let's just have a wee peek
That's healed brilliantly
You wouldn't know we'd been there
Are they itchy at all or hurting?
They were a bit sensitive at the time
The lumpy one at the back
That's the low profile one would you believe
But superb, you can...
Everything alright in this one?
Yeah, it's amazing
Good, I don't need to poke that
That looks great
Excellent
So yes you can do your hair
Now buttons wise, what are we on?
Okay
Did you notice anything sort of post op?
Any changes one way or the other in the control of your symptoms?
Not noticeably
Okay
That's fine I wouldn't necessarily of expected you to
Sometimes people do
but not usually when it's the target that we used with you
It's been a bit homeopathic for the last few weeks
That's just the setting to let your brain get used to the
fact that it's there
Um...
Recharging?
How often does it?
Just an hour a week
An hour a week, it's saying at the moment
Not too onerous
And what we plan to do is
If you're alright
Get you from sort of
1 million, perhaps to 1.5
and when we're about 1.5, that's when we're beginning to expect
that you might begin to notice some benefit from it
and what we'll also do
is get you putting your stimulator up yourself
as well, in a very controlled way
We'll set the limits on it
so you won't be able to press any buttons that cause any problems
and that just means that we get where we're trying to get to quicker
Brilliant
Alright, any questions?
For us at all
Flying we've covered
Yep that's fine
And... yoga
Yes, fine
My friend Paula wants to know why am I being trusted with a device?
She said I can't find my phone half the time
That's just a joke!
I'll delight in telling her that I actually spoke to you about it
because she was like, for goodness sake Jo, have they not met you?
All joking aside
Is this?
It looks pretty robust
so I'm assuming...
I don't need to be anywhere near this
This can live at home
It can live at home
Obviously if you're going away anywhere
even if it's just overnight
take it with you
but yes, it can live at home
You don't have to take it shopping or whatever
That's fine
and obviously if you going abroad
take it in your hand luggage
in case you're hold luggage gets separated from you
Right okay
Okay, yep
Good to know
If you leave the charger at home if you leave the charger charging never
If you leave the charger charging
You never want to be in a position where your battery charger
is running flat
And if you ever have technical problems with that kit
Then if you get in touch with us
then Boston Scientific will replace it for you
Ok, perfect
They don't last forever
It's like the connections on your phone
it's always the wee connecty bits that fray and give up
and eventually they do
but we'll just give you another one
Brilliant
So the plan is that incrementally the pulse will be increased
from the pulse generator
until it gets to place when I can hopefully have
Jack Sparrow can leave the room
That would be nice
Yes, pretty much
Yep
Excellent
thank you both so much
It's been a really good morning
I've come up to Newcastle to have my device programmed for the first time
And to see the surgeon and specialist nurse
So it's been...
Quite a lot of information has been provided
Some of it's about lifestyle and
some of it is about looking after the device and charging it
Helping me to work out how to use my remote control
I think there's an expectation
If you look at the internet and you can see somebody who has got a tremor
The device gets switched on, the tremor goes away
It's instantaneous and it looks like a miracle
If you want an immediate fix
an immediate improvement
an immediate anything
this is not the journey to take
but if you're prepared to wait and have some patience and...
and hang fire just breathe through it all
then I think it's all gonna be worth it in the end