Posted AT 8:56 AM EST on 28/03/06
Does power corrupt?
Kevin Byrne is a man in the prime of his life who feared he had an old man's problems. Last summer, he was devastated by chronic back pain and thought his hips were about to give out.
"I'm thinking, gee, I'm 47 years old and I'm going to need hip replacements already," he said.
The hip pain was the beginning of a strange personal odyssey for Mr. Byrne, a technical writer who lives in Newcastle, a bedroom community east of Toronto.
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