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From: Sheila.Fava@f3.n157.z1.fidonet.org (Sheila Fava)
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Subject: Operation?
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Date: 30 May 91 13:12:09 GMT
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[This is from the Spinal Injury Conference]

Quotes from the computer of Keith Jones.......

KJ-> what kind of an operation you had ten years ago?  Did it result in
KJ-> your injury? I had an operation 7 years ago and it resulted in my
KJ-> injury.

     Keith, I had a malformation of my cerebellar region that I was born
with.  It was diagnosed in 1977.  I had a second opinion at the
University California, San Francisco and a third opinion at Stanford
University Med. Center.  All the doctors agreed that it was inoperable.

Since I felt I was too young to buy the farm, I went on an active hunt
for the -right- doctor who could excise the offending malformation.  The
hunt led me to the University of Texas at Dallas.  The examining
neurosurgeon warned me that the cerebellum is the mobility center and
that -for sure- I would be disABLED.  I felt that was better than being
dead so, on March 24th, 1981 I was operated on.  Seven months later I
departed for home.  So you see, I -deliberately- had that operation and
fully knew the consequences.

Was your operation deliberate?  No choice?  What?

          ---Sheila.

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