O'Fallon, Missouri :Dr. Ted Rummel is a successful orthopedic surgeon here.Three years back he suffered a big loss of his life when he lost his ability to walk or stand as a blood-filled cyst on his spine burst in 2010.
It was in 2009 when he was diagnosed with a cavernous hemangioma, a type of blood-filled sac, on his spine.
He lived with the cyst for 11 months until September 2010, when the sac ruptured and the necessary surgery he underwent thereafter left him numb from the waist down.He is half paralysed, he is not able to stand or walk.
But all this did not break his will power. According to the Daily Mail, Dr Rummel said in the beginning he felt that he may not be able to continue with his service, he was shattered as the shoulder surgery he used to perform requires the surgeon to stand while operating the patient.
But the dedicated physician soon came to his senses and decided he would be back in the operation theatre no matter what it took.
In 2012 he again stood up to perform a surgery for the first time in more than two years. The operation on the patient's shoulder was uneventful. The whole thing took just over an hour.
He overcame the hindrance of sitting by utilizing an ingenious stand-up wheel chair.
Now, the tenacious orthopedic surgeon can do virtually everything in the OT he previously could and maintains his physical strength with daily exercise and his emotional strength thanks to a deeply devoted family.
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