ok I know this is way off topic but I wanted to share this with the rest of you. As some of you know, I've been dealing with serious illness and suffering for the past 6 years...the positive part in all of this (if there is any), is that they finally think they might know what's causing it. I have a ruptured disc in my lower back (L5-S1) which has screwed up a lot of the nerve roots and has completely affected every body/organ functions. I don't know if any of you follow the scientific stuff on Discovery, etc..but there's no real way of fixing this except for taking the damaged disc out. Now the good part is that Europeans have been doing Disc Replacement Surgery for about 15 years (yes they're way ahead of the US!) whith great results. Since I'm from Europe originally, I was going to go back to Germany to get this Artificial Disc surgery, but at the last minute Cedars Sinai in Los Angeles called me and told me that they are performing the same surgery, but it's not FDA approved yet, and after meeting with the surgeon, he agreed to perform it on me because I'm a great candidate. Besides the fact that I'm going to be a human guinea pig, the best part is that the most used artificial device in the world made by a company called Link, is German (Yeepee) and created by a Dr. med. Karin Buttner-Janz in Berlin. I actually got to touch it and the back says "Made in West Germany"!!! It was like looking at 911 part..I'm almost tempted to have a Porsche crest put on the device so when I go through airports, the Porsche logo will show up on the X-ray!!
Anyway I thought you might get a kick out of this one...I'm very proud that I'm going to be at least 0.1% German made now!! Damn Germans are awesome!
Now if I could replace the rest of my body with German parts, I'd be almost indestrutible! Here's a picture of what the artificial disc looks like..
Hope things go well, if I don't make it and you don't see me posting in 2-3 weeks, at least know that I'm not suffering anymore, and will be hanging out with Dr Porsche and Jimi Hendrix...
