[bukdez]

what?.. is that a look of disbelief?..

i was 17 it was 1993, i suffered a near complete burst fracture of my L1 vertebrate... essentially 75% of the bone was reduced to small chunks and dust... they took bone from my hip (similar to a marrow transplant) and were able to make my vertebrat about 75% of what it was originally, it is now shaped like a doorstop... they then affixed 2 steel rods with four steel screws to internally cast the wound, in a 6-8 hour operation... several months later the internal fixation device broke, and i had to have surgery again...