Posted on 11/20/2008 6:53:22 AM PST by Joiseydude
Doctors in Arizona thought a Phoenix-area woman had a possible brain tumor, but it turned out there was something else penetrating her brain – a worm.
Rosemary Alvarez started experiencing numbness in her arm and blurred vision. She went to the emergency room twice and had a cat scan, but everything came up clear, MyFOXPhoenix.com reported.
It wasn’t until doctors took a closer look at an MRI that they discovered something very disturbing.
“Once we saw the MRI we realized this is something not good,” neurosurgeon, Dr. Peter Nakaji told the news station. “It's something down in her brain stem which is as deep in the brain as you can be.”
Alvarez was wheeled into surgery where Nakaji and his colleagues were expecting to remove a tumor, but they uncovered a worm instead.
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The Botany Bay?
“Wash your hands, wash your hands.”
Isn’t it a shame......most of us grew up with Moms telling us.....”Wash your Hands”! “Wash up it’s dinner time” but we now are reduced to running National Ad Campaigns, telling the populous to “be sure to wash your hands”(and apparently that doesn’t register..oh wait maybe because the ads are in english!. It’s pathetic.......rates right up there with the train ads that are shown (at taxpayer expense) that tell people “if you see blinking lights at a train crossing STOP”. Country seems to be getting more stupid all the time.
Probably picked up at one of thoserest area bacon machines. I never trust those things.
I believe the show was Night Gallery, "The Earwig". It was the owner of a nice house who hired one of the locals to place the earwig next to his guest while he was sleeping in bed, whom he suspected of having designs on his much younger, beautiful wife. At least that is what memory tells me.
Never open attachments from an untrusted source and wash your hands!
The article doesn’t give enough info, but awhile back Discover channel had a show about parasites. In one segment there was a woman with similar sypmtoms, turned out she had a pork tapeworm that had migrated to her brain. She had picked it up somewhere south of the border (Guatamala maybe). It was really interesting, I think the show as called Eaten Alive. We used to show it to our biology students, it was suitably gross but interesting!
They had something like this not so long back on one the cable channels. I believe the woman was from the Dominican Republic originally and had made a trip back to visit. They think she ate some under cooked pork. I don’t know how long it took, but she started getting really bad headaches and then worse symptoms. It seems like it was some kind of tape worm that can infect the brain, eyes, etc. One guy had a big one coming out of his you know what after eating some undercooked fish on a camping trip. Then there was another guy that had some kind of parasite crawling across his eyeballs. He had gotten infected in some foreign country. Lots of nasty buggies out there.
Ha, ha—I just posted the same thing seconds within your post.
Actually if you follow the links, there is video of the worm being removed.
LOL :)
I hate to tell you this, but in most schools today, children go directly from the classroom to the cafeteria with no opportunity to wash their hands in these breeding grounds of third-world germs. With the Nanny State so concerned that children don’t consume a morsel of sugar on school grounds, it looks as though hand washing before eating meals would be mandatory, but then, this is government after all.
Night Gallery. The episode was titled, “The Earwig”.
Parasitology ping
Yeah but bacon tastes good
Added to that sage bit of advice that works as well for adults as it did for children: Don’t put that in your mouth; you don’t know where it’s been!
Added to that sage bit of advice that works as well for adults as it did for children: Don’t put that in your mouth; you don’t know where it’s been!
Sounds like a “House” episode.
Hmm. Didn’t think I hit Post twice. < shrug >
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