dogs, chiropractors and piglet stem cells; oh my...

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Much like children, dogs are resilient. They love and happily adjust to a

new schedule. Mine is getting a little older and although he could run all

day he is happy on the couch with me stroking his head or following me

around (yes, like a dog). As long as he gets his share of the attention

and a few brief walks all is well. He gets more attention now than when I

was working, so in some way he benefits. Always pick up after your dog.

Although I remain skeptical that chiropractic is a good idea (I think

properly learned exercises are better), in a pinch (pun fully intended) a

highly recommended (I like to see a track record) crunchmaster can be just

the thing. After the initial straightening and loosening of the affected

area is dealt with I'd suggest a good Tai Chi instructor (honestly, my

back kept going 'out' for years, it was popped in but would keep recurring

until I was taught just one basic exercise) not one day goes by I don't do

the exercises and the need for popping my back is entirely gone.

I've seen the video of the man with piglet stem cells, impressive.

However, a one year follow up can be deceiving, many treatments work well

in the beginning only to fall apart badly later. The pharmaceutical

companies don't seem concerned about the animal virus issues when they

manufacture pig insulin for use by diabetics. Some diabetics can't

tolerate the pig version but are unable (in Canada) to obtain the human

insulin without masses of paperwork and then only if supplies are made

available. My mother did much better on the human version, but is not able

to switch back to human insulin. It seems concerns like passing on viruses

is less important when bottom line profits are involved.

A 60 Minutes segment a few weeks agor featured an implated device to pump

blood along with and ailing heart, which allowed the ailing heart to

improve to the point transplant was no longer needed. The interviewed

doctor remarked that if produced en masse it could well replace many

transplants, but doubted that the insurance companies would tolerate the

rush for the $60,000 (don't quote me here) devices. I've noted too that

little about this has been in the press. Now I just would like to find a

microchip to control my autonomic funtions, the rest would likely fix

itself. Just like the pump allows the heart to recover. I like devices,

eliminates rejection drugs, rejection in general. Of course we'd all be

setting off the metal detectors.

Dodie: Glad you could nix the support hose.

aletta mes, vancouver, bc canada

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Aletta,

Sorry, but there has been much in the papers and news here about the

artificial heart. They implanted two as far as I know. The

first person lived 59 days and the second lived much less. The operation

itself was About $60k They never reported the cost of the pump, but

my guess seeing the materails used (and as a manufacturing engineer) would

be far, far, far greater than that. They are hoping to see how they

failed to improve the design, which is standard proceedure for development

) and they will run statistics on every phase of development.

There is no conspiracy to keep the pump quiet. It is no where

near mass production yet. I went through 7 redesigns on one of my

inventions before we had a statistically sound and manufacturable product.

P.S. Dogs are like people, every one is different, my beagle hates change.

She doesn't know where she wants to go since Charlotte is gone and my daughter

moved out. She cries if I shut the door to go to the bathroom.

She does want attention all the time - all dogs love to have their ears

rubbed.

Take care, Bill Werre