"Organic superlubricant is slippery stuff."

[unixronin]

OK, so it's not quite organic superlubricant.  But after visiting the orthopedist this morning (details of the reasons here, as well as in a couple of other recent posts also behind my medical filter), I now have bio-engineered high-viscosity synthetic lubricant in my right knee.  (If it goes well, we'll probably do the left too.)

Is that cool, in a sort of cyberpunk way, or what?

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[blackcoat.livejournal.com]

Oooooh. I wonder if I could get my orthopedist to give me some of that.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

You have knee problems too?

[blackcoat.livejournal.com]

I'm missing about 2/3rds of the cartilage out of my right knee from a mountain biking accident. (87 degrees of rotation on the X axis.)

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Ow. I don't know how much it would help with that. But it probably couldn't hurt.

Do you want me to add you to my medical filter? I posted more details there. The specific stuff in question is called Euflexxa, from Ferring Pharmaceuticals.

[blackcoat.livejournal.com]

...I thought I was already on it. But yeah, sure.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Logjam's friend groups list says not. But, you are now.

[http://users.livejournal.com/crossfire_/]

Does it feel better? *is fascinated*

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Too early to say yet, but early impressions are promising. I'll probably have a better idea after I finish the 3-week course of shots.

[cipherpunk.livejournal.com]

<points, mocks> Cyborg!

<only mocking because he wants to be one, too>

In other news, if you haven’t yet listened to Zevon’s When You Gonna Make It Stop Raining, Lord?, you might want to look for it—it’s well worth the time. Hell, most of the Preludes album is worthwhile. It’s one of the only posthumous record releases that I think is actually something other than a brazen attempt to exploit a corpse…

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

I didn't even know it existed. I must investigate this further. Warron Zevon has — or had — Teh Goodness.

Cyberpunk?

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

Yes. In fact, it's called "Enhanced Articulation" in ShadowRun, and I've wanted it since I read about it in '95 or so...cartilage is a great solution for the first 25-30 years or so, but after that, feh.

Re: Cyberpunk?

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

My cartilage was doing fine up until the day some asshat hit me with a full-size station wagon.

What I want to know is when do I get the reflex booster, the cyberoptics, and the auxiliary neural processor?

Re: Cyberpunk?

[ilcylic.livejournal.com]

I want the full skeletal replacement, that's it.

Re: Cyberpunk?

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I want my place in that line reserved, too. I've often wondered what the mechanical effects would be of replacing calcium carbonate in the human skeleton with magnesium carbonate.

Re: Cyberpunk?

[ilcylic.livejournal.com]

Hollow titanium! Just squish the marrow back in there.

Honestly, I guess it's not the bones I care about as much as the joints.

Re: Cyberpunk?

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Replicating the range of a biological joint in a single mechanical joint is, I understand, a really bloody difficult problem.

Titanium skeleton ....... that would be SOOOOO much fun at TSA checkpoints. :) Why, you might have to go to and from the departure lounge several times, just to make their day more interesting.

[tomatoe333.livejournal.com]

You should have a zerk fitting permanently installed on the side of your kneecap. It would make regular maintenance a snap.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Heh. :) "Wanna see my Zerk fitting, baby?"

[ilcylic.livejournal.com]

But Alaric's already kind of a zerk, sometimes... ;)

[ilcylic.livejournal.com]

No, not really, but I can't seem to resist a funny line these days.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately I can't seem to come up with a suitable response right now. Damn. Have to turn in my sardonic-humor license .....

[cymrullewes.livejournal.com]

Aren't we all?

[ilcylic.livejournal.com]

I sure as hell am.

[fatcook.livejournal.com]

Would that stuff help artifical knees? My mom is always complaining about hers feeling "stiff".

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Honestly, I don't know. It might. Have her ask her orthopedist about it.