I receive a phone call from the DBS speech therapist that I saw at the NHNN yesterday – he tells me that he has discussed my speech problems with his colleagues, and they think that adjusting the “pulse width” of the stimulation that I receive from my neurostimulator could be beneficial.
There is just one problem – the neurostimulator that I have implanted does not have a “pulse width” setting. I feel my heart sinking, but then he tells me that Medtronic (the company that manufactured my DBS hardware) can provide my clinicians with a code that will enable this setting on my neurostimulator, so that’s a result!
Apparently it takes one to two months for them to get this code (which seems ridiculous to me), so I won’t be having any adjustments just yet, and I was really hoping that I’d be returning to the NHNN sooner rather than later…