The photo above is from 1999. Vern Houston, PhD and I were at the United Nations to talk about landmine amputation wounds as it related to our research at the VA. You see how bad the cameras were. Years later, I learned that he had a degenerative disorder of some sort. He could not focus the camera, as you see. I feel bad because I used to get very upset with him. He was slow at tasks. The poor guy’s brain was freezing up. Nobody knew. I tried tracking him down a few years ago, but nobody I could find knows what became of him. Anyway, those were the days when I was a VA employee conducting a clinical trial that I designed to test negative pressure wound dressings. We were awarded two different grants totally more than $600,000. I was just an R2 resident.

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