Early in the morning on August 22, 2022, Jon’s medical team told him that neurologist Helen Mayberg would check in with him just before his deep brain stimulation surgery. “Everybody is like, ‘Dr. Mayberg is going to come in and give you a pumped-up speech.’” She’d explain how everything ought to go and what the team needed from Jon. She didn’t disappoint, Jon says. “She came in and gave me the pep talk: ‘All I need you to do is to be present,’” she told him. “She was really adamant about that.”
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