Dr. Kevin Tracey

And it's an open question, but yes, she is symptomatically relieved and takes no medications and is doing great.

So Pero lives in Mostar, Bosnia, in the Dinaric Alps in the west of Bosnia.

And that was a trial site.

And as it turned out, as you know, doing clinical trials, you set up a multicenter study and someone's first somewhere, and it happened to be Pero.

So this was back in 2011.

And I got word through Setpoint that Setpoint had launched the trial and flown a neurosurgeon over to do the surgery in Mostar.

And I said, can I go meet the patient?

And they said, the patient would love to meet you.

So it was Thanksgiving week of 2011.

I flew over there and learned that the patient had received his Gen 1 vagus nerve stimulator on Labor Day of that year.

So the first Monday of September.

And he had spent, he told me, years homebound on his couch.

He was a young guy at the time.

And

and had young kids, but he couldn't play with his children, couldn't drive his truck, couldn't work.

And his doctors at that time in Bosnia, and so he had not responded to steroids and methotrexate.

Well, he had a very significant clinical benefit from his implant, vagus nerve stimulator implant,

And was out playing ping pong a couple weeks later.

I didn't know until then.

Ping pong is huge in Bosnia, apparently.