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Posted on July 2, 2025

By Carlton Davis Since my Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) surgery, three years and 200 days have passed, but several problems continue to plague me. I fall often. Between 2024 and today in June, 2025, I have fallen about 20 times. No injuries have occurred because I could stand by levering myself up using a bed, […]

Categories: Personal Stories
Posted on April 8, 2019

Each semester, the IETF awards four $1,000 college scholarships to students who have essential tremor through its Catherine S. Rice Scholarship Fund. As part of the application process, students are asked to write an essay on the topic, “how essential tremor has affected my life.” The following essay is from one of our spring 2019 […]