Answering a little late again, but I thank you all for your lovely birthday wishes. I probably will not be here so often in the near future because I am having some unexpected problems with my musculoskeletal system in feet and legs - even to be seen on my orthopedic X-ray pictures, photographed the day after my birthday, causing my "clownesc" orthopedist to tell me: "First, he bad news: this really does not look good and you probably will have in some years a really complicated operation of your heel spur and the Achilles tendon. The good news: This heel spur looks so unusual and almost alienatic for me that you might become famous in the world of orthopedic surgeries! You are in the top 5 of the most unusal X-ray pictures I have ever seen in my life and I am an orthopedist for 35 years now!"
Isn't is always nice to hear that you have something almost unique in your life?
Maybe, this was caused by this long standing at hotel receptions and walking at night through long hotel corridors. My bones always seemed to feel much older at night than my brain did and some mornings, I already thought: "I would have rather liked to feel so old in 30 years but not already now!"
In any case, compared to many others, I am really happy because I still can do everything I did 30 years ago, only a little pain was added now ... hrm ... this may also show to you what a terrible weakling and German "Weichei" I have been all my life.
On the other hand, these new problems are really endangering my new job at a new hotel desk and maybe, I soon will have to find another job. But it's also OK because an old Romanian proverb from the Bucovina is saying: "In this world, nothing is so bad that it could not become much worse, so be happy as long as you can!"
OK, that's all for today and thank you very much for you all and all your wishes and greetings!
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Eulalia answered:
Well, congratulations on your unique anatomy! Make sure you patent it and charge a hefty fee to your consultant or anyone else who dares to write articles about it, publish pictures of it, etc.
But, seriously, that's a bit of a downer. At least, if it's a long-term issue, medical science will move on, maybe it will prove less challenging for surgeons if and when surgery becomes necessary.
And now the latest "science fiction" news from my unique anatomy which showed me again how much I seem to be "a chosen one" in this universe (
!) :
My orthopedist recommended to visit a famous German surgeon in another German city and this surgeon surprised me by telling me, I am not yet "invalid" enough to be "operated" on - in his opinion. He recommended a "radiotherapy" I had never heard of before to be used on heel spurs and osteoarthritis.
I returned to my home town and told this to my orthopedist who was a bit surprised, too. He gave my the typical German transfer document for being used from one medical German expert to another one and told me: "Right now, I really do not know where I could send you because there once was a center for radiotherapy in a hospital near this city but last year, they - like many others in this region - had a few problems with a little water which also was mentioned on TV, ... you remember?"
(By the way, I love this German kind of "usually British-style understatements" because I really remembered the "little water problems" of this hospital in 2021: )
There was a very little creek named "Kyll" with a width of about 50
CENTI-metres about 400 metres away from this hospital but unfortunately during only one night, it rained there as much as usually in 4 months and the lowest floor of this hospital was in all German TV - news the day after:
Unfortuntely, there was a center for computed tomography and radiotherapy at the lowest level of this hospital and you probably can imagine the faces of the staff there after their "little water problems".
But German doctors are not so different from most other people around this world after catastrophes. So, they probably went down their staircases in their non-flooded cellars and basements and cursed for some time in solitude like this: "OK, .... damned SHIT! I AM NOW VERY, VERY DISAPPOINTED !!! This simply cannot be true! I am so damned angry about this water catastrophe that I will do everything I can in order to rebuild a completely new house, hospital and tomography center, even if I have to open up the worst hell of German bureaucracy!!!"
And the most surprising thing is the speed in which this really happened. When I called the biggest hospital in my town 2 weeks ago in order to ask if they have again a center for "radiotherapy", they told me: "Hm, yes, but it is so new that we ourselves did not really understand the administrative character of this new division in our hospital. It is located on our ground but it does not really belong to our hospital ... mhm ... but I can give you their telephone number!"
They gave me their number and now, I feel like in a science fiction movie because I am one of the first patients in one of the most modern German centers for computed tomography and radiotherapy. There are only four of them across all Germany and just in my little town, there is now one of these "high-tech-centers".
On the internet, you can even find a short movie how fast it was built and it looks a bit like in the science fiction movie "Elysium":
Elysium:
German reality with brandnew devices for the patients:
There is really a touch-screen on the right side of this "bed" and after the doctors marked the body parts of their patients like on my foot, ...
... the doctors just put their fingers on a few parts of this screen, the tomograph rotates aorund my body, switches on its automatic cameras, focuses on the "paintings" on my foot, turns its radiation segment exactly on my heel spur and starts its radiation on its own. At the same time, this very latest machine also can adjust its focus after small involuntary motions of the patient. I have never seen such a perfect medical machine ever before! And I am surprised that it really works and helps me! After only two radiation sessions, I can move my right foot much better and with much less pain than before!
This is for me like living in a science-fiction movie. Additionally, the movie about the construction of this machine's turning segment during the last months looks a bit like the "erection" of the "Stargate":
You can find the movie here, when you scroll down a bit:
I asked one doctor, how much this will cost my insurance. His answer: "You and almost every German citizen is paying for your insurance as long as you are healthy. Now, you are ill and so: Never ask what you can do for your insurance! Only ask, what your insurance can do for you! But to your information: This machine alone costs around 3.5 million Euros. You do not really want to know what the building around this machine will cost because it is not finished now!"
This country is sometimes only to be described by: "WOW !"