When I'm Sixty Four
~ 1 ~ He was an ideal candidate for the process. A healthy sixty-three-year-old man named Joe Murtaugh. He was brought into St. Catharines General with an ecoli growth that had lodged itself in his spine. He was in pretty rough shape but his medical record showed that this was, other than for a tonsillectomy when he was seven years old, his first serious medical problem. He was conscious when they brought him in and started doing all the various tests to determine what was wrong with him. Finally, the E-Coli infection was spotted and the surgeon, Dr. Lawrence Freeland was called in and an operation was scheduled. Dr. Freeland was one of the country’s finest spinal cord surgeons in North America. But he was also one of the majority investors in, a company called Eternus. Before the surgery, Dr. Freeland sat down with Joe to give him a briefing on what was going to happen to him. Joe was pretty weak from the effects of the infection and weary from all the testing that he had b...