Thursday, May 10, 2007

EPILOGUE 6

Here is the before and after video I've been working on. Before leaving for China last year, I took a bunch of video of me getting out of bed, trying to play guitar, writing, walking, etc.

Of the improvements to date, walking is the most profound. One thing I should mention: although the before and after shots were done in a single "take" both were on "good" days. I wouldn't have even attempted walking outside "before" on a bad day, which was most of the time. Although I look pretty solid, a strong wind gust would have sent me sprawling, ifn fact I broke my ankle in a fall a few days after the "after" video was shot.

Other improvements include me getting a little hairier. I'm not a hairy guy, and am balding, but my barber and my wife, Sally have both noted dark hair growing on my head and beard.
It's not my red-brown former color (I'm completely gray now), but Chinese black. Another patient at Nanshan developed a black streak in her gray hair after 8 injections.