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12/16/2009 10:03:47 PM
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evelyn
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As some of you know...my son is an anaplastologist, that is, he makes prosthetic ears, fingers, noses, breasts, etc. for cancer patients who have lost these parts so they can go out in public and be accepted as normal. Last week he was making an ear for an elderly gentleman. The man`s existing ear had many tiny thread-like veins throught the ear. Jay went to a yarn store and bought a ball of wool the exact colour of the man`s veins. He pulled it apart and separated the fibers until he had the tiniest bits of the wool as possible. When the prosthesis was in the "liquid" stage, he added the yarn and floated the strands beneath the surface in a pattern resembling human veins. When the piece was completed and placed on the recipient, he had an ear exactly like his other one.
He was one happy man and no longer felt like people were staring at him.
Neat eh!
Evelyn
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12/17/2009 5:07:23 AM
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bets
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I know where he gets his creativity from!
;-)
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12/17/2009 7:00:47 AM
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Daryl
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Brillian son. Also not only does it demonstrate creative brilliance but sensitivity to note those veins and realize that replicating them was important for the total effect. Kind.
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12/17/2009 7:09:08 AM
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Les
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Genius!
Hope it doesn`t pill! LOL
Les
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12/17/2009 7:41:46 AM
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bri
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A total wow, MacGyver moment. What a great yarny story.
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12/17/2009 10:17:27 AM
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suzann
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What a wonderful story, Evelyn. Your son is certainly creative. But he wouldn`t have known about wool if it hadn`t been for you.
suzann
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12/17/2009 10:36:39 AM
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Guest
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LOVE this story!
-Marie
http://smariek.blogspot.com
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12/17/2009 10:39:13 AM
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Jamie
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Fascinating! Very creative! We are blessed to have doctors like him. You are blessed to have a brilliant, caring son!
Jamie
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12/17/2009 12:04:40 PM
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Sandra D
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Amazing, and so wonderfully creative of your son! Thanks for the story, I`m going to pass it on to the yarn doubters that I live with :-).
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12/17/2009 9:54:25 PM
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evelyn
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Thank you everyone, and just for the record, he`s not a doctor. He`s an artist by profession. A sculptor to be exact. That is what his degree is in.
He`s doing good work and we`re proud of him. He had to move to North Carolina from Canada, our home, in order to open his practise. Too much red tape at home.
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