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I will post an update before unsubscribing. The only things I've seen in this sub are people begging and the mods allowing it to happen so I'll leave something beneficial before I leave.

I used MedicalMex, a medical concierge service in Tijuana Mexico, for a stem cell treatment for my neck and back. It was under $8,000 in cash, it included an MRI, a meeting with the doctor to go over everything, and then the procedure the next day where they injected 70 million stem cells divided between my neck injuries and spine injuries. It is a month later and I feel like my back has not felt this good in 20 years.

I was in the military and survived three combat tours with a plane crash and being blown up by IEDs multiple times. When I got out of the military I did physical therapy and all of the visible injury area was no longer visible on MRI but the pain was still there. I looked relatively normal other than the fact that I carried a cane with me in case I fell, but the pain was pretty extreme. I previously received 8 sessions or so facet injections over the past 20 years and the Department of Veterans Affairs was going to start cutting nerves so that I felt less pain, but which meant muscles would degrade and I would not be able to walk straight again.

Stem cells seem to have fixed everything. I'm in my '40s and my back feels like I'm 20 again (before the plane crash). 🤣 I didn't see much about MedicalMex when I was signing up for them except for people doing gastric bypass surgeries so I wasn't sure, but I couldn't be happier and I'm going to go again if I have any more issues.

Supposedly this stuff is supposed to get better and better in my back is going to keep healing. This really was life-changing for me. I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop as if it's going to wear off like the facet injections, but there's no pain killer in me or anything. I just don't hurt because I'm healing.

I am pro se in a civil case that was stayed due to Younger abstention for the past year over a misdemeanor which has recently been reversed by the appeal court. I was suing the local government when they used the arrest to pause everything. I am looking at two years of discovery before the case even starts (well before it's in front of a jury), and discovery isn't starting today.

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Which brings me to my question, should I go to law school during this time. Will the overlap help me?

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I'll admit I'm not good in school in general even though I am an intelligent person. I know through my career that my weaknesses are language and memorizing facts. I keep lists. But it seems like law school is a language program where you memorize facts. Maybe that's just my outside perspective and my anxiety messing with me.

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So lawyers, if you hadn't gone to law school and had a constitutional violation happen to you that you wanted to fix, would it be law school or something else to prepare you?

I'm just wondering about "fun" laws. Not like outdated laws on the books about marrying horses and stuff but like what I just discovered, California appeals judges have to make a ruling within 90 days or they don't get paid. Apparently that's in the California Constitution which is funny and badass to me.

What are some interesting situations that you've run into where laws actually have teeth against the institutions maybe in ways that a lay person wouldn't expect?