Shared interests

Showcase on Joseph Merrick, the "Elephant Man", in the Royal London Hospital Museum

Isn't it nice when a couple share their interests? While I visited the Royal London Hospital in the Eastend to get to know more on its history and its most famous patient, Günter visited Erler Klinik in Nürnberg to get everything prepared for tomorrow's operation on his collarbone.

I learned interesting facts on Joseph Merrick, better known as the Elephant Man, who was exhibited in the window of a shop opposite the London Hospital on Whitechapel Road and got in contact with Dr. Frederick Treves, a physician at the hospital who did intensive research on him. Merrick later spent his last few years in the hospital. Some years later, in 1890, he died in his room at the age of just 27. Until today, scientists don't exactly know what caused his deformations.

Meanwhile Günter is back in the profound hands of Prof. Klaus-Dieter Haselhuhn, head of the accident surgery of Erler Klinik. Günter will get a metal plate implanted tomorrow to stabilise his collarbone which has been badly damaged in an accident on the racetrack. Intense physiotherapy will follow; the metal plate will be removed next year. Simular procedure as last year.

Hope soon we also share our opinion about how much risk there should be involved in our regular activities...