A Crash Course In Brain Surgery

The DBS implant process and how I got my horns

Anthony Overs
Writers’ Blokke
Published in
11 min readSep 5, 2023

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Photo by Milad Fakurian on Unsplash

The workup week

Raymond rose from his chair opposite me, came around, stood behind me, and proceeded to put his hand down inside the front of my shirt. “Oooh, that’s a big pec,” he said, as he felt my pectoral muscle. Don’t you have to buy me dinner first, I thought but didn’t say. He went on…

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Anthony Overs
Writers’ Blokke

Australian. Varied interests including music, wildlife (especially birds), food, baseball, taekwondo, drums. Person living with Parkinson’s.