Posted on 05/01/2015 3:57:05 PM PDT by rickmichaels
Something was wrong with Yamini Karanam.
The PhD student had moved from Hyderabad, India, to Indiana to study computer science. But her new life in America was amiss. Once a brilliant student, she now had trouble understanding simple articles. Friends and colleagues would say things to her, only for the sentences to get mixed up in her mind.
Because that’s where Karanam’s problem lay: deep within her brain.
She went on holiday last fall but returned even more exhausted than when she left. Karanam slept for two weeks straight, missing school.
“Then came the headaches. Slips and misses at work followed,” she wrote on her blog. “There were doctors. First, a couple of them and then more.” Then came the “revelation”: doctors spotted what they thought was a cyst on Karanam’s pineal gland, a tiny pea-like structure in the centre of the brain that French philosopher René Descartes called the “principal seat of the soul.”
(Excerpt) Read more at news.nationalpost.com ...
A friend of mine’s daughter had one of these in her belly. She was about four years old when it was removed. She is all OK now.
This story has been making the rounds for the last week or more. I’m surprised so many are surprised. This sort of biologic tragedy does happen in humans. It’s not all that rare.
The Dark Half.
you are right. At times they are called hydadatea fol mole...consist of just teeth, some hair maybe a bone, but mostly teeth and hair...not a twin or human. My spelling might be way off. might be able to find it in wikipedia..
you are right. At times they are called hydadatea fol mole...consist of just teeth, some hair maybe a bone, but mostly teeth and hair...not a twin or human. My spelling might be way off.
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