A New Option of Prosthesis

Today in one of the newspapers appears some news that interested me in a special way, Wladimir Silva, a guy of twenty two years old have the lucky to could use from now on one of the five prototypes of artificial hands made only with a 3D printer for Jorge Zúñiga, a physiologist resident in the United States. This new kind of prosthesis came to make easier the life to people with problems like the Poland Syndrome that suffer Wladimir Silva. This syndrome means to Wladimir to born without some muscles of the upper right part of his body and the congenital amputation of some of his fingers. Some others good aspects of this creative prosthesis are that were made with ABS plastic, a very light, malleable and cheap material. The last aspect it’s too important because one of this prosthesis cost only 25 dollars, a fifteen thousand Chilean pesos approximately.

The reason of my interest in this new because to me it’s so good to know that some people use the innovation of our technological world to help people like Wladimir who suffer some kind of disability. Personally I knew some cases very near of disability, because my two half-brothers have one, so any chance to make more comfortable and easier the life of people with this kind of problems have my unconditional support.

 

Fourth post - Free post - Favourite artist

One of my favorite artists is Jeff Buckley. He was a great singer and musician in the ninety’s, he born in California in 1966 and died in a strange situation drowned in the Mississipi in 1997. His fame came with his first and unique album called “Grace”. His father was a very popular singer of the sixty’s but he don’t have a real relation him. With the time appeared a lot of albums of compilation of songs from his shows or rare songs. I listen him firstly for his version of the song “Hallelujah” of Leonard Cohen, the most wonderful version that I ever listening in my life. With his great voice he could change the atmosphere and touch the heart of anyone. After that I began to search more songs and info about him, and with each song I like his music more. Songs like “Grace”, “Everybody here wants you”, “Last goodbye” or “Forget her” makes me a real fan and lover of his music. If I have to choose my favorite song of all his music, without doubt I will choose “Lover, you should’ve come over”. This song is the seventh of his album “Grace” and talks about the reflection of a person who lost his love, but he still loving her. I like it a lot because in this song we could appreciate the talent of this singer, in his lyrics, his voice, his music, etc. That’s all… here one of his songs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3adFWKE9JE  

Future Job

    Think in a job that I would like to have it’s a little bit complicated at least these days because it’s my first year in the university, studying the career that in theory will be my job and I’m not sure yet if this is the road that I want. I remember that when I was child I always want to be a job related with help to the people with his health and well, I still want the same, for this reason I’m studying Dentistry. I imagine myself in the future working like now, in other words, trying to do my best in all the things that I do. I want to be a dentist that works in more than one place, I want to have jobs indoor like in hospitals or in a dental clinic but too jobs outdoor like activities of promotion of dental hygiene in schools or similar things because I don’t like to stay a lot of time in the same place. For the same reason I would like to travel so much to carry to any place my help, and obviously to know a lot of places.

   If I think in a major now I would like take in the future, it could be maybe Pediatric Dentistry or Gerodontology, these are the two specialties that I think I would be like because now I see that both are the areas more susceptible and that need more attention. Sincerely I never believe that I would be studying this career, I don’t love it, but if I don’t change the career in the future or something else, I would like to do all the things that I said before (: