Boston bombings (1 of 2): Night of.

After I finished class, I did a lot of work and admin, and then checked news, and found out about the Boston bombings.

My 2nd bar of 3 that night was the bar of a popular Italian restaurant downtown.

Oddly, the (early 40s) (white) man in a polo shirt sitting next to me drinking a glass of white wine was a prosthetics maker who appears to live in the neighborhood, and we discussed the news a bit and then his profession, but never linked the 2 together.

He said that one of the rare case that you face - he's never had one, in more than a decade of making prosthetics, though you have to study how to do it - is where someone has no pelvis, and you have to create a prosthetic where it's put on someone and keeps their guts from spilling out when they're upright, since your pelvis holds everything in.

"So is that permanently attached?", I was like.

"No," he was like, "They can take it off."

I then said something about how they must be careful when they do that, and be lying down.

He also said he makes helmets to correct the heads of deformed babies, where they wear it and it blocks growths in certain directions and the skull shapes into the others, and then their one eye goes from being on the side of their head to the front, and they look normal in 6 months to a year.

"So are the babies developmentally disabled, or do they just look funny?", I was like.

"They just look different," he was like.  "You have to calm the parents down a lot, 'No no no, your baby is fine, it's just their skull, everything will be all right if they wear this helmet...'".

With some prosthetics, he said, too, that if some are successful, in 7 months they end up in the trash, like if you make a support for someone while they have surgery on their leg and foot so they can walk while their limb heals.