Everybody Lies

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Perhaps we do not want to believe it. Perhaps our own understanding of reality dictates this, and many other phenomenon, impossible but everybody lies. This is not necessarily a “bad” thing but jus needs to be understood. Not only is our self image a reflection of the psychological construction but the entire landscape of reality. [...]

In the year 2009 an article was published in Vascular Surgery. Although rumors were already floating around, the article explained in detail the consequences of the discovery. No, its not a drug, no its not a breakthrough therapy, it is a discovery of an existing defect causing a medical mystery. In the beginning of 21st century, medicine [...]

Walter Benjamin Conception of Hero of Modernity Walter Benjamin was a German literary critic as well as a philosopher, although he himself never referred to himself as a philosopher.  His thought intertwined elements of Jewish mysticism with Marxist theories, specifically historical materialism. Born in Berlin in 1892, Benjamin left in the 1930s and lived in [...]

Life

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I sat at the outside table of a cafe overlooking a busy square with a cup of coffee, a biscotti and my journal. The city noise was minimized by the plastic partitions hanging around the sitting area of the cafe and the prominent buzz became the clinking of utensils on the plates and the conversations [...]

It was December 2009. Barack Obama had become the first black president a year before. United States was engaged in two wars with no end in sight. Economy had collapsed and I eagerly awaited the improvements of a stem cell treatment I had in Germany. I had gone to a Multiple Sclerosis Specialist in November [...]

Awakening I was surrounded by water, the stench of which was only worsened by the ghastly sight of bodies and rats floating around me. All I could see in either direction was water, and death. Helicopters flew over my head constantly yet to them I was no different than the countless dead bodies around me. [...]

15,555,000

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The hospital on the Rheine that treats 10 Americans a week has completed its treatment of me. The lumber puncture or commonly known as spinal tap was performed faily painlessly and the 15,555,000 viable stem cells were injected within a few minutes. While the clinic aims and hopes for 5 million , my sample had [...]

The Extraction

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The Dominicus Hospital was more 200 years old, and although remodeled multiple times i am sure, carried a very old feel. The center operates on three floors that they have remodeled in their orange colors and Ikea furniture. The Imacs adoring every desk gave a warm feeling in my gut being that i have the [...]

The Arrival

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After almost 9 hours of stuck in a tiny seat with almost no movement, we arrived in Deutschland. After getting our bags and walking into the public area we met up with our orange vested driver. A very nice German man, who did not hesitate to play a bit of a tour guide as we [...]

6 Days Until

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I am having extreme heat sensitivity. Part of the problem is that it is extremely hot right now. I try to avoid going to the bathroom in order to eliminate the awkwardness of my gait worse yet, to eliminate the possibility of a fall. I look forward to Germany not only for the main event [...]