Here is a guy who has had a bionic bum fitted after a car accident left him badly injured. Read here.
I can understand him not wanting a colostomy bag and this surgery being an improvement but it is the method used. It will have to be replaced in five years. That must mean that those muscles are special like the heart and ordinary muscle just won’t cut it. That must mean something profound but I’m unable to process it.
All I can say is there must have been a better way. With all the plumbing and biological technology we have now how can performing surgery on his working body and using his own muscles to simply open his bowels by remote control be the best solution? Couldn’t we have built a replacement unit? One that doesn’t need surgery to keep going and if they can graft artificial hands on surely providing an artificial bum must be easier.
It just doesn’t seem right to me that we use a technique I would have thought was obsolete in this day with our technology. Seems tome he got a bum deal here although he was happy with it.
It is not the strongest of the species that survives… nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change. — Charles Darwin (1809 – 1882)
A bum deal
Here is a guy who has had a bionic bum fitted after a car accident left him badly injured. Read here.
I can understand him not wanting a colostomy bag and this surgery being an improvement but it is the method used. It will have to be replaced in five years. That must mean that those muscles are special like the heart and ordinary muscle just won’t cut it. That must mean something profound but I’m unable to process it.
All I can say is there must have been a better way. With all the plumbing and biological technology we have now how can performing surgery on his working body and using his own muscles to simply open his bowels by remote control be the best solution? Couldn’t we have built a replacement unit? One that doesn’t need surgery to keep going and if they can graft artificial hands on surely providing an artificial bum must be easier.
It just doesn’t seem right to me that we use a technique I would have thought was obsolete in this day with our technology. Seems tome he got a bum deal here although he was happy with it.