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09-18-2010, 06:25 AM
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Ditto to what Homer said. I'm not sure how things are looking better. Yes...he's alive...but he's permanently paralyzed.
Maybe all connections will suddenly turn Democrat and vote for more stem-cell research? 
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09-19-2010, 03:52 AM
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In California, we vote for stem cell anything, I think. Happily so, if it involves research and possible new knowledge and learning, And I usually vote Republican.
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09-19-2010, 08:10 AM
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Two page story in this mornings NY Daily News.
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/mo..._michael_.html
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Felix Unger talking to Oscar Madison: "Your horse could finish third by 20 lengths and they still pay you? And you have been losing money for all these years?!"
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09-21-2010, 06:02 PM
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Stem cell therapy not an option for Martinez..
By Matt Hegarty Specialists at Northwestern University near Chicago have decided that the rider Michael Martinez is not a candidate for a clinical trial using embryonic stem cells to treat spinal-cord injuries, according to the track physician at Golden Gate Fields, where Martinez was severely injured in a fall on Sept. 12. Dr. David Seftel, the physician, said that the neurosurgeons conducting the trial had concluded from Martinez’s medical records that the jockey’s spinal cord had been too severely damaged to consider Martinez for the trial. Seftel and Martinez’s family had hoped that the treatments, which have shown some promise in studies on rats, would be able to mend the rider’s severed spinal cord. Martinez is paralyzed from the waist down.
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09-21-2010, 08:33 PM
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I hope they change their minds.
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09-22-2010, 08:05 AM
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09-22-2010, 02:00 PM
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They didn't even do the MRI.
Thumbs down to the Division of Workers' Compensation. They didn't even give him a chance. "The decision by Dr. Richard Fessler of Northwestern University came late Monday after a tumultuous day in which Martinez was to be transferred from Highland Hospital in Oakland to UCSF for a high-resolution MRI exam. The transfer was canceled when the state Division of Workers' Compensation refused to authorize it." http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...SPFC1FHHGJ.DTL
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09-22-2010, 11:08 PM
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My 18 year old kid tore his ACL in very late July in a freak workplace accident while working with our city in a summer program for kids. Workers comp in California got involved because of where he worked, despite our insurance that would have covered everything. My only call to exert pressure was to his employer just to let them know we needed to get him operated on and functional to get him to college (in the SEC!) by August 15th. He had the full MRI maybe within 72 to 96 hours of the injury. The surgery on August 3rd. California Workers Comp held nothing up or attempted to thwart in our case and we did little if anything in attempts to expedite.
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09-22-2010, 11:53 PM
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