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Doing the least to save your life...

Hey Fowlsound,

I just recently joined the forum. I know about zero about medicine, but am grateful for modern medicine and hope it continues to work for you. I reach your paper and it was powerful. Can we quote it freely?

(P.S., off topic, but I support stem cell research. I hope to live long enough to develop dementia.)
 
Rachel1031 said:
Hey Fowlsound,

I just recently joined the forum. I know about zero about medicine, but am grateful for modern medicine and hope it continues to work for you. I reach your paper and it was powerful. Can we quote it freely?

(P.S., off topic, but I support stem cell research. I hope to live long enough to develop dementia.)
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Quote all you like! Glad you liked it.



PS I agree with you.
 
Hi fowlsound,
Can you tell us a little more about the actual hardware? It looks like a Medtronic product.


This is a specialized field, but links a lot of different technical and medical disciplines to make it all happen. This short article describes what happens for a lot of semi-custom medical devices:

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Foulsound...

You were among the first members here to welcome me to the boards (technically, the 4th one... but I am sure you would have been the 1st if you weren't out late that night shaving wombats with a rusty razor. By the way, Tim, that reverse mohawk he gave you really looks good on you. No, seriously. Ick...):p

I want to offer you my most sincere hopes for a full and speedy recovery. Whenever you hear the Garth Brooks song "Friends in Low Places", think of me.:)

Big hugs,

Jen
 
fowlsound, I must add a note of support after reading your paper, this thread and some of your blog.

I thought you seemed a cool guy just from your posts here, but after finding out you are coping with all this so - what's the word for "gracefully with appropriate anger"? - I am blown away with respect.

Sorry to seem to gush, but please know you have significantly affected me, and it would seem, others. I will follow your progress with good wishes and confidence in your treatment.

Wondering if the sound this fowl makes when meeting sCAM practitioners is "Quack!!! Quack!!!"...
 
Wow. Thanks guys! lessee...

Kopji: I don't know who specifically made it. I can sure find out though. I was only told it was titanium. I know the bone graft to rebuild height was surrounded in a titnaium cage, and that is probably very similar to the products described in your link. I would not be surprised if it was Medtronic, though.

Orangutango: Thanks so much. :) Recovery at this point is really only watching to see it doesn't come back and maintaining the dull aches I get from time to time. I am walking without pain and without assistance, and I can run (the guys that mugged me for my laptop a few months ago got a good chase before they slipped away.) Thank you for your thoughts.

orphia nay: You made my day. Thank you. I have tried to maintain as positive as I can be, and yet still as expressive enough as to get the sCAM folks to know to leave me alone. I would like to think I was graceful, but there are many nights over the past few years that were filled with swearing and anger and tears. It gets easier to cope with cancer once you hit the remission phase, but I still fear a return of systemic myeloma. When that comes, rest assured I will place all my efforts into therapies that are proven to treat cancer. There are a couple new drugs like Revlimid and Velcade that are very promising. Multiple Myleoma is not as well documented and studied as other cancers. I will update my blog and this forum with new writing on my progress as it happens. For now, I am on a hiatus waiting for the next round of tests and bloodwork and bone marrow biopsies to check for recurrence.

You friend in battle of woo and cancer:

FS.
 
fowlsound said:
Wow. Thanks guys! lessee...
Kopji: I don't know who specifically made it. I can sure find out though. I was only told it was titanium. I know the bone graft to rebuild height was surrounded in a titnaium cage, and that is probably very similar to the products described in your link. I would not be surprised if it was Medtronic, though.
You friend in battle of woo and cancer:
FS.
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The technology in your spine is really amazing. Not as amazing as the real thing but still pretty good. Not everyone does well mentally with major surgery like this, so give yourself some major credit too. Not very many people feel comfortable enough about these things to post their cat scans on the internet. :)

I only ask because the company that made it might really like to hear from you. (your doc would know) Due to privacy laws they only know you by a case number. There are probably hundreds of people who worked on it as a project without ever hearing or seeing the end results of their effort.
 
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