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How I Felt After 70 Days of Lying in Bed for Science
I woke up on December 2, and for the first time in 70 days, I stood up. Or at least I tried to. The nurses wheeled me over to a hospital bed that would be tilted vertically, with blood pressure cuffs hugging my arm and my finger, an ultrasound machine pointing at my heart. Then they told me, with the encouragement that you'd give a toddler learning to walk, to try standing for 15 minutes. As soon as the bed was tilted to the vertical position, my legs felt heavier than ever before.
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Yeesh, I wouldn't have gone through all of that for the $18k that he somehow agreed to! But hey, he certainly was brave enough to endure all that torture, and through that give the scientists valuable information that could further enhance the safety & welfare of future space-farers.