Name: The Real Bionic Man
Uploaded: 2017-10-16T11:11:07.000Z
Duration: 8 min 37 s
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Thirty-nine radiation treatments 
trying to burn it out.

My cancer doctor told me that 
they had done everything in their power

At that time I just called myself an 
old backwoods country hillbilly

and now they tell me that I’m the most 
technically advanced man in the robotic field

I’ve never been a rich man but 
I’ve been a hard worker all my life.

A little bit of caffeine keeps me 
from getting mean.

Everything that I do I try to do the best I can.

I’ve been told you know with one arm 
you can’t do stuff.

You know, there’s lots of things you can’t do.

Well, I’m not saying you’re going to do it fast, but eventually you’ll get it done.

When I got cancer and 
then lost my arm, you know.

I mean it blew my mind, I mean, you know.

Now, you know, I can’t go out and 
take care of the family like I used to.

But you know it’s there, so I’m 
going make the best of it.

I got introduced to Johns Hopkins 
Applied Physics Lab.

They had a project to build the arm 
that was said to be revolutionizing prosthetics.

They wanted everything to move just like your 
natural hand, wrist, elbow, shoulder can do.

And they needed the human factor now to come
 in and start testing and working with the arm.

I got a chance to meet with Dr. Albert Chi 
at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Dr. Albert Chi found the nerves 
that use to go to Johnny’s hand

and moved them to healthy 
muscles in his remaining limb.

He introduced me to Targeted Muscle Reinnervation.

And that is the surgery and 
technique that you use

And I never in my wildest dreams 
thought that I would be the one.

I mean, why would some backwoods 
country hillbilly be the chosen one?

Courtney, as much as we 
have worked together now,

it’s more than just as a tech-prosthetist 
relationship. We’re just like a family.

is that he has the osseointegrated implant.

Osseo means bone...integration with the bone.

and it’s implanted into the 
medulla of the bone, the inner core.

He’s the first person to get the 
implant in the United States.

The first time they told me 
“Johnny, I want you to think close your hand.”

So I think “close hand” and that 
robotic hand went close like that.

Man I come by… YEAH! 
I wanted to come out of that chair so bad!

The biggest motivation is I have a second 
chance on life. I could have lost my life with cancer.

I had three of my children that were in the 
service come back with all their extremities

I want to be the best role model 
to forward on the prosthetic field.

Sometimes the biggest challenge 
is slowing Johnny down.

Every single time we work
 together he shows me

that there’s far more by pushing the envelope 
that results in practical application.

And it’s forcing me to adapt things 
that I might not have thought of before.

Right now with kind of the man-machine integration,

Johnny has narrowed that gap to 
the smallest distance that it has ever been.

Right now, the modular prosthetic 
limb is an in-lab arm only.

If I was able to bring this 
arm home on a regular basis,

it's unbelievable what I could 
probably accomplish with this on.

I’m going to push it as far as I can push it.

I want to introduce you to the place that I stay 
each and every time I come up to Baltimore.

I can’t believe we’re here in this setting.  
Everything we’ve done so far has been in the lab.

And to see Johnny right now with the system in-place, 
it’s just so incredible and so moving for me.

This man means a lot to me. I mean, I put 
my life in his hands and I mean literally.

He’s beyond being my doctor.  
To me, he’s just like my brother.

Remember we were talking about how 
it’s Johnny that challenges me?

There’s times when Johnny pushes the envelope 
in a way that I don’t feel comfortable with.

Give me a towel, real quick.
Give me a towel. Give me a towel.

"and the researcher, Courtney, is visibly 
uncomfortable during cooking dinner."

I have to put a glove on this hand 
or at least make an attempt to.

You’re going to give me something? You want 
to find out if it’s going to work? I’m going to work it.

The cooking was, I mean, nerve wracking 
but now in hindsight, I mean, it was amazing.

We didn’t practice at all. 
He was trailblazing it today.

It’s just that one step closer from this being a
 research system to something deliverable.

I really do feel like we're at this crossroads 
between breakthrough surgery and breakthrough technology.

Really we’re seeing this evolution of 
man and machine.

It’s going to be light years beyond 
what is available out there.

Like I said before, you know,
I don’t know why I was chosen for this.

I’m not the most intelligent man in the world.

I’m not the most physical, 
strong man in the world

but it has given me a new sense of purpose.

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