Deep brain stimulation was a lifesaver for my husband with Parkinson’s

Deep brain stimulation was a lifesaver for my husband with Parkinson’s

My husband, David, and I married joyfully in 1981 after a year of unexpected courtship. Although we’d attended the same high school in our small town in Pennsylvania, we had not interacted, but we were aware of each other’s families. Ten years later, as young adults, we serendipitously found ourselves in the same upstate New York city when fate intervened, courtesy of our mothers playing Cupid. Our wedding vows included the words “through the be…