Posted on 03/19/2005 6:26:21 PM PST by Servant of the 9
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Shhhh.....Pieces thinks I'm a guy....;)
And you live in the logic free zone too! What do you say about Steele for Senator?
Back in '81, the neurologist insisted I have an MRI every single year for the rest of my life.
[and yeah, I skipped 5 or 6 of them because frankly, they're boring and nothing ever changed]
The last was about 2 years ago and the "empty" fluid-filled space is now *mostly* scar tissue.
Same hole, different stuffing, I reckon.
They always say everything looks okay and I'll probably skip this year's as well.
[unless I can finagle a PET scan outta them, instead]...;)
This is not a ridiculous thread. And there has never been a PET scan. This is not trivial in my opinion.
Sense of smell never returns....:(
Although, just to be contrary, I have an extremely acute sense of taste.
The docs argued that it can't be so, but it is.
The best I can figure is that some "link" between the act of "smelling" and "perceiving" a smell is broken or damaged.
I do, however, know 2 other brain injury survivors who have neither sense of taste or smell.
Weird, but true.
Actually, this court document from the hearing in 2000 only lists the CAT scan as evidence. No other tests.
I don't think that a PET would be all that useful, but my experience is only with CT scans and "regular" MRI's (not functional MRI). So I defer to others with more knowledge/experience/credentials on that one.
I stick up for friends. ;)
Don't make me drag out the "English sparrow, fully loaded or not" conundrum...;)
Agreed. Also another fascinating aspect of the brain particularly in Alzheimer's patients is their knack for recalling things from way back in their childhood as opposed to recent events is that synapses that forward and store events into the memory stop firing. I found this out by asking a doctor about this, because I was fascinated that my grandmother can clearly recall events from years and years ago. It even floors my father and his two sisters.
I live in -western- MD.
It's an entirely different right-wing world out here....:)
If he runs for senator, who's gonna take over his position?
it all depends on what gets damaged.
the sense of smell goes straight into the Limbic, bypassing any initial processing. If that straight routing is damaged, that's all she wrote.
similarly, if the right eye's optic nerve is severed before the hypothalamic cross, that's all she wrote. However, if it is severed between the cross and the occipital lobe, some of the right eye's data will get processed.
let's not get into what happens if the amygdala gets hosed. that's more complex than my knowledge base allows me to discuss intelligently.
I see your sparrow, and raise you a chinese ship sinking fish.
Not too long ago I read the story of a little girl who had the entire right half of her brain removed.
[I can't recall why...epilepsy, perhaps]
They filled the space with a silicon-like gel and sent her on her way.
She's bright, happy and totally "normal".
Sometimes I suspect 'science' doesn't have a clue...:)
Gosh DJ....I'm honored, then...:)
Oh lord...have somebody post a "permalink"...that's an -awful- lot to keep typing, especially if you're a hunter-and-pecker like I am....LOL!
oh, an MRI can be other than boring.
Imagine you have lost your sense of balance, have an hellacious headache, are constantly nauseated, appear to be having thermal regulation problems... and as a consequence get slapped into a hospital.
Due to a comedy of errors (and it IS funny... NOW) you get diagnosed with terminal/inoperable brain tumor and slapped into the cancer "exit lounge".
Then you get an MRI.
You still have that headache, mind you, so that damned GNG!GNG!GNG!GNG!GNG!GNG!GNG!GNG! the machine makes is really horrible.
This goes on for 70 minutes.
THEN, the techs exclaim "THAT can't be right!" accuse you of having moved while being scanned, then lock your head in one of those "halo" abominations, and run it again.
oh, yes: MRIs can be ever so exciting.
btw: it yielded exactly the same results with "halo" as without.
I have that "peculiarity" myself.
I can recall useless minutiae from 25 years ago yet forget that I have the stove on until smoke fills the house...:))
Also, I have to re-read some new thing I'm trying to learn several times before it "catches" in my brain.
Yet I can recall everything I learned pre-accident without effort.
Being in the scanner isn't much fun, I can vouch for that. I hope I never get to wear the halo.
But they are not being systematically starved and deprived of water to hasten their deaths?
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