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Roswitha S.

Roswitha S. notices from small changes that something has changed in her, but cannot interpret the symptoms. In 2004, she was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and started a square dance class with her husband shortly afterwards. She finds the dancing extremely helpful in relation to the Parkinson's disease. At the time of the interview, she had been living with the disease for sixteen years. In 2017, she started Deep Brain Stimulation therapy. In the time before treatment, she was very unwell and sees Deep Brain Stimulation as a last resort. At the time of the interview, the surgery was seven years ago. Even before receiving the diagnosis of Parkinson's disease, Roswitha S. had quit her job as a biology teacher. Age at the time of diagnosis: 52 Treatment: Deep brain stimulation

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For Roswitha T., the operation is psychologically exhausting because of the long duration.

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Interviewer: How was the operation? Roswitha S.: It was long. Interviewer: I know that. Roswitha S.: Yes, but today it is only half as long. For me, it started at seven o'clock in the morning, with the preparations and everything, and the stress was already there. And I came to the recovery ward at seven o'clock in the evening. So it was really, really, really long. Interviewer: Was it exhausting for you? Roswitha S.: Yes. It is simply psychologically exhausting and [...] things happened that I don't really remember. I somehow slipped away from them, in fact I almost suffocated. But I don't remember that exactly.

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