DutchmenSport
Senior Member
On July 31, 2017 I became a member of the Bionic man / woman's club with a total knee replacement of my right knee. It's hard to imagine that was 8 years ago, seems like it was just yesterday. My knee is 100% fine now, by the way.
My wife has been having some serious back issues for years now. The last round of injections did not last very long and now she is facing a joint fusion procedure with some kind of rod that looks like a torture device from the days of the Inquisition!
My son had a motorcycle wreck some 20 years ago which resulted in him having a plate put in his wrist to hold smashed bones together. That plate will forever be a part of him now.
My mother (at age 90) feel and ended up having a metal rod implanted on the inside of her leg bone.
My mother-in-law and father-in-law both had pace makers.
My sister has fused bolts in her back also.
My dad had false teeth as did my mother.
Now, I've had more body parts "removed" from my body than were added to it, like wisdom teeth, my appendix, things like that. I've had broken bones, and surgeries of different types. But, my artificial knee is he only part that is not "native" born in me.... well ... maybe some of those self-dissolving sutures may still be floating around.
So, with my wife's Doctor visit today, talking about the "implant" for the fusion in her back, it got me to thinking ...
How many others on these forums are walking around today with artificial body parts inside you?
So, how about you? Anyone else "dare" to share if "YOU" are not totally the original "YOU" you were born with? What part? (If you dare to share?)
My wife has been having some serious back issues for years now. The last round of injections did not last very long and now she is facing a joint fusion procedure with some kind of rod that looks like a torture device from the days of the Inquisition!
My son had a motorcycle wreck some 20 years ago which resulted in him having a plate put in his wrist to hold smashed bones together. That plate will forever be a part of him now.
My mother (at age 90) feel and ended up having a metal rod implanted on the inside of her leg bone.
My mother-in-law and father-in-law both had pace makers.
My sister has fused bolts in her back also.
My dad had false teeth as did my mother.
Now, I've had more body parts "removed" from my body than were added to it, like wisdom teeth, my appendix, things like that. I've had broken bones, and surgeries of different types. But, my artificial knee is he only part that is not "native" born in me.... well ... maybe some of those self-dissolving sutures may still be floating around.
So, with my wife's Doctor visit today, talking about the "implant" for the fusion in her back, it got me to thinking ...
How many others on these forums are walking around today with artificial body parts inside you?
So, how about you? Anyone else "dare" to share if "YOU" are not totally the original "YOU" you were born with? What part? (If you dare to share?)
