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Her marathon never happened, and it wasn’t long before the young mother of three from Justin was in a wheelchair.
“I couldn’t walk. And I couldn’t eat things like peas because I’d throw them across the room. I had a very bad tremor,” she said. “In the beginning, I thought I was just going to wait to die.”
After years in that dark place, a surgery finally brought some light. In Deep Brain Stimulation, or ‘DBS,’ doctors implant a pacemaker under the skin, then connect it to electrodes they put in the brain. That procedure can curtail the debilitating symptoms of Parkinson’s.