Happy Day to you. My name is Daniel Cook, tho my friends call me ‘Spin’. This is my story and the reasons my daughters started this Go Fund Me for me. Thank you for your time looking at this.

I have 2 defective hips, both have been recalled. The manufacturers are Biomet, now Biomet/Zimmer and Depuy. Every step or movement of the hips create wear debris that are from heavy metal. The main two are Cobalt and Chromium. My life has been made miserable by the 2 defective hips and the toxic debris in my hip and pelvic region. Everywhere my blood flows has the toxic metals accumulating. In my organs, brain, eyes, everywhere.

This has impacted my way of life. I am in pain every waking moment. It interferes with my sleep and limits my activity. The more physically active I am, the worse the pain becomes. the worse I physically feel, the worse my symptomology becomes. My pain continually increases until every step lands upon a floor of agony and handcuffs me to my bed.

Cobalt is a nasty heavy metal (thick mercury, arsenic or lead), and it kills everything. The amount in my blood is considered toxic levels. Anywhere my blood flows, microscopic pieces of cobalt accumulate.

Exposure to these heavy metals ate my bones away in my hip, femur and pelvis. It required multiple areas to be debrided and repaired with cadaver bone. The damage to my bones caused my hip revision surgery (where they were to take out the defective product) to fail, instead putting in replacement parts that gave me a full new dose of the toxins. The first 5 years of wear on a new hip expels more cobalt particles. I can’t remove the defective product , the source of the toxic heavy metals which has been slowly poisoning me.

The cobalt debris cause my body’s biological functions to combat the toxins. This is what caused the lytic lesions that destroyed my bones, similar to certain bone cancers.

The FDA’s fast track approval processes is what made it so that the Biomet and Depuy defective medical processes made it to market. Zero legal action can be taken against the FDA. Biomet and Depuy’s defective medical products were implanted into me and cannot be removed. There are no current treatments other than to manage my pain and symptoms.

These medical device manufacturers preyed upon desperate patients with their negligently designed and defective hip replacement products. This is a human made affliction disguised as a safe option to improve the quality of my life, improve my mobility, and relieve my pain. The opposite of what has happened to me in reality. My life expectancy has been shortened. I was never informed or warned about the medical issues that the defective devices caused. I am condemned to an existence of poverty surviving off of $1,282 a month from social security disability payments. I am unable to work, due to the pain from the 2 defective hips.

As far as I can discern from seeing Dr.’s all over Ohio (including the Cleveland Clinic), no medical care professional I have seen has ever encountered a patient with my specific medical issues. Dr. Steven Tower, out of Alaska, whose efforts exposed the defective hip products leading to recalls and legal actions against the various manufactures. One of my goals is to be able to see him, but I live in Ohio. I am hopeful for experimental treatments to help, they are still in the beginning phases. I am hopeful that when they move to human trials that I could be included.

If nothing else I hope this will raise awareness on defective medical products. If something like this could happen to me, unfortunately it could happen to anyone. I humbly ask for your help in my quest to hold these medical device manufacturers accountable. Anything that is donated will go to my continued medical care, transportation and legal fees. Thank you for your time and thank you for anything you may send my way. Anything will help to improve my situation, even a positive thought or prayer sent my way.

Lab results showing cobalt above normal levels and according to Mayo Clinic in toxic levels

Physicians report from my failed revision surgery where they were not able to take out the defective hip due to osteolytic lesions on the bone.

Study of cobalt toxicity by Richard Chen

Dr Tower LinkedIn profile

Dr Tower’s PowerPoint for chrome-cobalt toxicity

Dr Steven Tower’s Ted Talk on cobalt toxicity

Mayo Clinic Cobalt levels in blood

TLDR: I have heavy metal poising from my recalled and defective hip replacements. I am asking for help for medical expenses (continued care, transport to and from offices, visiting specialists in other states, experimental treatments, potentially replacing the defective product if a doctor thinks it could done, etc.). I may also use the expenses for legal purposes if a case can be brought against them. Thank you for reading.