Make sure you sleep with earplugs in.
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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Make sure you sleep with earplugs in.
ICK. But better a worm than a tumor.
Wasn’t there a movie too called “The Brain Eaters” about an invasion of extra-terrestrials in the form of worms that invaded people’s brains?
How can I prevent trashiness's?
Cook meat products until the juices run clear or to an internal temperature of 170 o F.
Freeze pork less than 6 inches thick for 20 days at 5 o F to kill any worms.
Cook wild game meat thoroughly. Freezing wild game meats, unlike freezing pork products, even for long periods of time, may not effectively kill all worms.
Cook all meat fed to pigs or other wild animals.
Do not allow hogs to eat uncooked carcasses of other animals, including rats, which may be infected with trichinellosis.
Clean meat grinders thoroughly if you prepare your own ground meats.
Curing (salting), drying, smoking, or microwaving meat does not consistently kill infective worms.
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Was telling the kids that freezing for 20 days would kill the worms and they were afraid I meant that this woman had to keep her head in a freezer for 20 days.
I remember that, it was Night Gallery, the title was “The Caterpillar” and the culprit was an earwig. Scared the heck out of me.
Rod Serling's Night Gallery. Overall not a very good show but I used to watch it in reruns in the 80s on some UHF channel. Most of the episodes were uninspired and nowhere near the quality level of Twilight Zone but that episode creeped me out; I still think of it occasionally. [shudder]
46 posted on Thursday, November 20, 2008 10:44:38 AM by pepsi_junkie
Beat me by one second! One lousy second! Now I know how that guy in the Olympics who got beat by like 1 millionth of a second by Michael Phelps felt!
The worm obviously did not come from bacon. Bacon is processed, cured, smoked and cooked.
My bet is that Rosemary is an illegal, and ate the pork in Mexico, or they are eating meat from feral hogs.
Pork from the modern commercial hog farms is parasite free and completely safe to eat. Pork from Mexico or from feral hogs is not parasite free or safe to eat if not cooked to the point of being vulcanized.
Oh my, the spell check changed the word trichinosis into trashiness...oops
The doctor on the video has removed 5 of these things in the past few months. Also, according to the video, this problem is increasingly common.
Good question. Most just hold public office.
Goa'uld!
HA! ;)
I think it wasan earwig. But I don’t know if it was Twighlight Zone or Outer Limits, my guess - Outer Limits.
I’ll admit I was puzzled. Thanks for the explanation.
I heard about this yesterday - and couldn’t believe it!
When I worked in Resorts, the main problem I had was getting the kitchen help to wash their hands. I would hear a toilet still flushing, and the salad prep would walk right back to his station, fixing salads! I would insist he wash his hands with soap and warm water, and you would have thought I was a witch with the dirty looks I got.
This is why I very seldom eat out any more, and when I do - I am careful not to order anything that dirty hands will touch. (Soup is usually a safe bet, or anything straight from the oven.)
“What kind of worm was it”?
...they’re calling it a “Franken”.
It’s likely neurocysticercosis, which is from undercooked pork and poor sanitation in Mexico. Saw it all the time in the illegal patients at the hospital I worked at in Chicago.
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