Treatment Day Twenty-Three 12/28/11

I have friends visiting again. Though I can't go home, home is doing a nice job of coming to me. One of my friends went to treatment with me today. Dr. Li told her that they are working on studies to see if rTMS might be effective in helping people to stop smoking. From what I could hear with my earplugs in, it sounded like they've already tried it for treating overeating without success. I guess it can't cure everything.

My friend took a picture during treatment. It's the first time I've been able to see what the device looks like actually on my head. It was in the tapping phase when she took this shot.

She also took a brief video which I will try to upload when I am at a better computer with a faster connection. There's not a lot to see, really. My friend said that the left side of my face twitches a little when it's tapping and the right side doesn't really move at all. The device shows no movement at all (you can't see the tapping, you just hear it).

As we were walking out, I saw on Dr. Li's laptop that someone new is starting the clinical trial next week. I think that I'm the fourth person to enroll in this study at MUSC, so new person should be number five. To the new person, I wish you luck and hope you have the success I've had so far.

Today makes one week since I officially declared myself in remission, and I still think that's where I'm at. I feel happy. I feel patient. I feel calm.