To feel anxiety before surgery is normal. I would be more concerned if my patients are not worried about having surgery and I make sure they fully understand what they are going through. And the most frequent thing is the idea of surgery, their concern on the surgery and what is around it and also some questions on recovery. What I do tell them is that this surgery, if you think about it, is quite minimally invasive. Just two thin small wires going into the brain, the opening in the skull is small and the battery itself will go under the skin. In fact, the recovery is fast, so even elderly patients go home within a few days after the surgery and that helps them for many years or much longer. Let me rephrase this, they look forward to what happens afterwards.
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