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I am pleased to report that I have in the last few days finished my new book
entitled A Novel; Quadriplegic Aspirations and Stem Cells. In
the past I have published at LuLu, self publishing; but with this writing I
will endeavor with perhaps greater fortitude to seek a publisher otherwise.
This explains why the book is not yet offered for sale. Is this writing a novel
or a non-fiction; that is a good question? Please note that the title of the
book entitles it a novel, endeavoring to put the reader from the beginning on
the right tract. Yet the happenings in the book entail perhaps eighty or ninety
percent non-fiction, real happenings. This of course has been done purposefully
with fictional characters starting in the beginning of the book It is an
endeavor to develop a new structure in the field of literature. Thus, the novel
begins with characters, fictional, in the beginning. Then after a fixed moment
in time the writer as in the usual novel, no longer in near all instances,
presents the developing plot; because instead daily happenings are allowed to
present the plot as things occur.
Hence, in this writing two young people, a man twenty seven and woman thirty
one, find much enjoyment in riding motorcycles, each their own, when an
accident transpires, when the injured suffers quadriplegia, where the injured
is deemed unable to move neither upper nor lower extremities, and so doomed for
life. The moment in history in this writing commences in July 2011, when the
two still together, one injured one not, both very educated, commence tracking
to behold what might aid the injured. Stem cells of embryo nature turn out to
be of no utility. Then they ride the sanguine, optimistic expectations of adult stem cells that
gave vent for the spinal cord injured around the world that they might find
succor, then after many, many months have such all come crashing down at their
feet. Reboot technology then came the story that circulated
worldwide, published in a London paper that reported recently, “Six years ago, professional horse-rider Claire Lomas
was told that she would never walk again but now she is attempting to walk more
than 26 miles (42km) at Sunday’s London Marathon
A Novel; Quadriplegic Aspirations and Stem Cells by
Gerald J. Brown, MD
thanks to a pair of “robot legs”, which have transformed
her life. When Claire was told she would spend the rest of her life in a wheelchair
after a spinal injury, she wanted to get back on her feet as quickly as
possible and regain her independence. For the past three months she has been
training intensively for the marathon using a robotic walking suit to prove she
is just as determined as in her sporting days.”
With the work being
done at the Georgia Institute of Technology (GIT), our protagonists were able
to read, “Those unfortunate enough to suffer from severe spinal cord injuries,
the tongue is often the only extremity still under their control. To take
advantage of this fact, engineers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have
developed what they call the Tongue Drive System (TDS), a wireless, wearable
device that allows the user to operate computers and control electric
wheelchairs with movements of the tongue. The latest iteration”, spoken of
February 2012, “which resembles a sensor-studded dental retainer, is controlled
by a tongue-mounted magnet and promises its users a welcome new level of
autonomy with both communication and transportation.” They have of course kept
searching for new areas of stem cell technology to come forth and give new
hope.
As a family they live together and utilize all modalities of intercourse
available to them including wheelchair sex. They were able to beget what they
had strove so hard for, a boy Willet and a girl Audrey, whom they both love
dearly. They are followed in the novel as they lived, looking at movies and
listening to music on UTube and indeed much more. Finally the uninjured could
countenance the stress no longer and takes up running, joins an
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There is
substantial need of society to afford increased scope to support the one-fourth of a million Americans who live with spinal
cord injury. Fifty-three percent of these have lost the ability to use their
lower extremities. The remainder 118,000 like Wade has been deprived of their
natural use of arms and legs, most likely gunshot and
knife wounds; vehicular injuries; sports injuries with diving and trampoline
mishaps; therapeutic manipulations in the cervical region.
It has occurred to the author that the spinal cord injured
could find interest in reading about the injured and so too other members of
their family, cogitating but four to be additionally considered in a family
group, this would produce a niche group of strong interest, hovering around two
million and this would be only in the
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Medical Care Just and Equal by Gerald J. Brown, MD
The
following is Chapter Nineteen from Medical
Care Just and Equal which the
writer published in 2007. The author herein gives all the right to distribute
it in all manners legal; and such a right shall pass onto any person who
receives it in the first instance.