Doug Winterburn wrote:
He claims to now be pain free. The Doc wants him to consider a shoulder
replacement, but he says no as there is no guarantee of swinging a golf
club after that. He claims it's getting very difficult to swim with all
the metal parts ;-)

I was talking with a friend about this the other day - when they were
writing science fiction thirty years ago, they of course figured that
the first "bionic man" would be some big-deal major replacement thing.
What happens of course, is instead that, piece by piece, Grandpa ends up
being 25% non-organic by mass as parts wear out...

-BAT