![]() ![]() He had surgery to insert a nasogastric tube directly into his stomach so that he can be fed bypassing the mouth as well as the food pipe. It was an absolute honour to chat to and for about how they are working to enable Peter Scott-Morgan to thrive despite his terminal MMD diagnosis #thriveandsurvive #MND #poweroftechnology. His sense of smell and taste have deserted him. Except for his eyes and a few facial muscles, he cannot move. The most extraordinary thing about this scientist, aside from his optimism, is his relentless capacity for joy. Now, a year after doctors had expected him to be dead from motor neurone disease (MND), he is kept alive by high-tech wizardry. He can only speak haltingly, through a voice synthesiser, but the voice is not in a staccato. This also meant that he had lost his speech. He had to choose to give up his larynx to prevent death due to saliva aspiration. He underwent a laryngectomy or removal of his voice box to prevent his saliva from entering into the lungs due to his muscle weakness. He underwent complex surgeries and was in the ICU for a little under a month. This robotic face responds with expressions to body language using artificial intelligence and is not plasticky static. He first developed a life-like avatar of his face before the illness wasted his muscles away. Awesome Science at its best!!! /TKAWpZ4JYI - Dr Peter B Scott-Morgan February 11, 2021 HUGE COINCIDENCE! The guy who gave me my Pfizer vaccine on Wed was the lovely Ray who 16 months ago was in OR at NHS Torbay to hear me say the last words ever to pass my lips… 2 days later I have had absolutely NO side-effects, not even a sore arm. ![]()
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