NORTH CAROLINA WOMAN TO RECEIVE BRAIN PACEMAKER AND RAISE AWARENESS FOR PARKINSON'S DISEASE

CHARLOTTE, N.C.--DECEMBER 7, 2001— Local woman fighting for her life and the lives of others.
Deborah Setzer, Financial Consultant for, and active member of an online Parkinson's non-profit organization PLWP, Inc., People Living With Parkinson's, is living a life of quiet deterioration and remarkable courage. Deborah is 39 and lives with the terrible knowledge that her disease is killing her rapidly, much more quickly than regular Parkinson's. You see, she has M.S.A. (Multiple System Atrophy). Rather than sit around and feel sorry for herself, this human dynamo has sought out the talents of Dr. Stephen B. Tatter of Wake-Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C.

Residency/Fellowship:     Neurosurgery
Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard Medical School   
MD/PhD Degrees:     Cornell University Medical College/
The Rockefeller University   
Undergraduate:     The University of Michigan
Ann Arbor   
Together these brave people, along with Deborah's caregiver and supportive husband, Robert Setzer,Sr. and her family, have decided to face this disease head-on (so to speak!!). On December 21st of this month, Deb will undergo a type of experimental brain surgery-a DBS (Deep Brain Stimulator) for MSA.

Deborah will be raising money for PLWP, Inc. which has an on-line support group at www.plwp.org, and who's primary mission it is to maintain quality of life both for the person diagnosed and they're family and friends. After the risk of infection is over, she will be accepting donations to autograph her bald head. She is also donating her hair, which has to be removed prior to surgery, to the Children's Cancer society, giving some little girl a brighter outlook on life.

Contact Deborah Setzer at (704-588-9797) or one of the two Co-Founders of PLWP: Nancy Abraham (716) 671-0649 or Brenda Tucker at (865) 932-7624.




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