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What they’re doing is grabbing
cells from the nape of the neck with a small biopsy and injecting them into damaged areas. This seems to be a wonderful advancement if only because the nape of the neck serves no real purpose other than being able to use the word “nape,” which is otherwise useless. The biopsy part isn’t so exciting though. I had some for my prostate, and I still get weak at the thought. Mind you, it was a slightly more tender area of the body. You can’t just biopsy the nape of a prostate.
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Apple, and the big time! The Goose’s version of Jackie
Wilson’s hit “Higher and Higher” hit the Top 10 in several American and Canadian markets, and even led to a performance in front on U.S. President Richard Nixon. In case your memory needs to be jogged, you can hear the song here:
https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=1GA6AmQ4bFI But international fame and
fortune was not to be. Canada Goose fell apart just before a major tour of the States, and Gary returned home to Ottawa. He toured with David Wiffen and worked on his newly acquired pedal steel guitar. In fact, it was his prowess on pedal steel that earned him a spot in James Leroy and Denim. You can hear Gary’s wonderful work on pedal steel here:
https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=LENYhdZ4pFQ In 1975, after 15 years of
recording, touring with people like The Beach Boys, Roy Orbison, The Dave Clark Five and Glen Campbell, and playing with many
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The company is also looking at
using healthy cells from hair follicles. This is because hair follicle fibroblasts are particularly effective. You might want to think about that next time your barber does away with your scalp covering. The lovely irony in the treatment is this: it could also help eliminate pattern baldness. All of this is called regenerative
medicine. According to the Mayo Clinic, “regeneration involves delivering specific types of cells or cell products to diseased tissues or organs, where they will ultimately restore tissue and organ function.” Stem cells are a form of it. Now this wonderful research, if
all comes to fruition, does make me wonder. Let’s say I’m hobbled next
of Ottawa’s most successful bands, Gary Comeau returned to Ottawa to settle into a more normal life. He wrote commercial jingles for radio and TV, did some production work and occasionally traveled back to the States to do session work in L.A. and Nashville. His official retirement
from playing came about seven years ago, and since then he has been taking it easy, helping out young bands with sage advice and working on a book about his career and travels. Recently Gary and the surviving
members of the Esquires got together to celebrate the 50th anniversary of their album release. That album, the first by an Ottawa Rock Band, is now available on CD and can be purchased through the Esquires website. (http://
spotlightheroes.com/Esquires/) Throughout his career Gary
Comeau set down stakes, made wonderful music, then moved along and did it again on fertile ground. Perhaps it was partly a restless spirit, but I think it boils down to that “respect” thing. Gary Comeau was always in demand because he
by, oh, an Achilles tendon strain. Do I limp into a local clinic and demand someone stick a needle in my nape? Or should I just produce a pair of scissors, lop off a few strands of my ever-thinning hair, and ask the doctor to please help himself to whatever number of fabulous fibroblasts he can find? How long it will take for clinical
trials to become reality is anyone’s guess. I’m betting it will be longer than a month from now which is about the time I expect my physio treatments to be over and I can return to running. But just in case, I’ve asked my
barber, George, to save my cuttings. A future hamstring injury’s recovery counts on it.
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was that good. He could write, sing, play
guitar and make people happy. Today I look forward to his many postings on Facebook with music and photos of a time long ago when the Ottawa music scene was really cooking. Just search him out on Facebook and re- connect with a really special time and a real Ottawa music legend:
https://www.facebook.com/gary. comeau?fref=ts “I look at everything I’ve
done in music as a two way street. I had a ball doing it, and people on the other side of the stage had a ball too”, he says. “It was connection. I’d have done it for free.”
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