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January 07, 2004

Another Cautionary Tale


Meet Bob Hazleton:

Bob Hazelton spent the days before Christmas in a Minneapolis hospital. He had fallen trying to get into a building not accessible to the handicapped, and doctors had to reflap the bone over the muscle above his left knee.      "They had to cut the bone a little bit and repad it with the major muscle in the thigh ... so if I damage it again it won't hit pure bone," Hazelton said. "The bone is soft, and because the bone is soft you have to be real careful that you don't fall or cause any major trauma."      Hazelton knows all about major trauma. His life has been one major trauma.      Hazelton rested in his hospital bed, each of his legs amputated above the knee. He says his condition is the result of abusing steroids when he was a heavyweight fighter.

Hazleton's story comes to us courtesy of Thom Loverro of the Washington Times. Give it a read.

UPDATE: Somebody send this article to Derrick Turnbow. Please.



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