A close up of a former US Army paratrooper’s beaten to shit backbone, first lumbar vertebra. This guy’s a great hero of mine, a Southern gentleman from Tennessee, was in 126 countries, thinks he parachuted into most of those, it destroys the knees, the back and the next slide will be of the old boy’s heart — ugly stuff.
Spinal Cord Injury
Spinal cord injury is the most devastating accident. Beyond possibly being paralyzed for life, there is certainly loss of feeling, movement and years of pain to endure. One visit to the lab / clinic was of an acupuncturist (healing the healers has become a specialty!) who got into this modality after being hit by a…
Have You Seen a Smoker’s Lung?
The RF LAB faces the United Nations headquarters in Manhattan, and since we don’t have WiFi, so as not to upset our many RF-sensitive visitors, I’ll wander outside to that U.N. “smoker’s bench” facing the sun. When their giant rectangle of a building isn’t blocking out the light — or, more precisely, before it is…
DNA Scan
Of course, one of the first things to go in a human is Collagen; this is for healthy skin and that elasticity we like. Our old Paratrooper is still a ruggedly handsome fellow (VIP bodyguard and walk-on movie and TV extra) but that elasticity is going. And the proof in the pudding is in the…
Break a Paratrooper’s Heart!
This old U.S. Army Paratrooper is a pretty fit guy, non-smoker, clean living fella, but all those Army vaccines have taken a toll. We’ll do up a case study on this walking lab specimen, but, over two decades as a pin cushion in the armed forces, ya get poked. A lot. All of it adds…
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