With my
MetalHead exhibition showing in Vancouver, Canada it was coincidental to find another "
metalhead" on the BBC Web News today entitled:
Man Grows New Skull After Decades.
The
severely damaged skull of a
Northumberland (UK) man involved in a car crash 50 years ago has regenerated itself, a process thought to be rare. Mr Moore said the plate had never bothered him, but he was relieved he would no longer "set the alarms off at the airport".
If you have not yet seen the
MetalHead exhibition, it is on until October 29 at the Lookout Gallery at Regent College (
UBC campus). For more details go to the
gallery website.
I have put the exhibition up on my website now too although you can't enlarge them yet. But soon!
www.michal.ca
The severely damaged skull of a Northumberland (UK) man involved in a car crash 50 years ago has regenerated itself, a process thought to be rare. Mr Moore said the plate had never bothered him, but he was relieved he would no longer "set the alarms off at the airport".
If you have not yet seen the MetalHead exhibition, it is on until October 29 at the Lookout Gallery at Regent College (UBC campus). For more details go to the gallery website.
I have put the exhibition up on my website now too although you can't enlarge them yet. But soon! www.michal.ca
Hey Michal, I wish I was in Vancouver so I could go to your exhibition. Your post reminded me of a neurosurgery conference I was at a few weeks ago. I got to look at a number of new "plates" and prosthesis they now have for people missing a bit of skull. In addition to the old titanium mesh there are ones that look like styrofoam and even made-to-order clear ones. I was trying to imagine what the clear ones would look like in place - once you take back the scalp you would be able to see through directly to the brain. Not quite a window into one's soul but something close.
ReplyDeleteI wish so badly I had thought to ask for my x-rays just before my plates were put in. I thought of it about a decade later and was told they only keep them in Canada for 8 years. The sad thing is one of my future brother-in-law's family's business is processing those very same x-rays for metals once they are discarded. He told me he probably had mine at some point. I didn't know him yet though.
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