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It's Not a Tumor - Doctors Find Worm In Woman's Brain Instead
FoxNews.com ^
| Thursday, November 20, 2008
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 wasnt 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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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: eww
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To: Joiseydude; mikrofon; Charles Henrickson
To: Travis T. OJustice
Dude, that's no earwig. THIS is an earwig... That looks like a misplaced merkin. You will never regret the time you spend looking up the word "merkin." I will use it in a sentence for you: I was practicing omphaloskepsis when I noticed my merkin was slipping.
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posted on
11/20/2008 10:08:45 AM PST
by
Bertram3
To: Hyzenthlay
I get that. People travel. What I meant was, absent exposure to some 3rd world destination, your average American will probably not get a brain worm.
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posted on
11/20/2008 10:10:52 AM PST
by
radiohead
(Buy ammo, get your kids out of government schools, pray for the Republic.)
To: Sloth
They also used these parasites or something similar in a sequence on Startrek-TNG in an early season in which the little suckers were being used to take over Starfleet one Admiral at a time.
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posted on
11/20/2008 10:13:24 AM PST
by
Lucius Cornelius Sulla
(So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.)
To: Kackikat
There is no treatment for trichinella in the larval stage. Once you get it, you got it.
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posted on
11/20/2008 10:26:04 AM PST
by
Bertram3
To: beaversmom
Oooo yes, sounds like the same show. Remember the guy who had a fish jump into his....well....never mind... ;)
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posted on
11/20/2008 10:53:53 AM PST
by
brytlea
(You can fool enough of the people enough of the time.)
To: brytlea
Yep, I’m not even a guy and that hurt.
To: Bertram3
I wasn’t referring to that specifically, but most parasites and some worms (not larvae) can be killed by doing a parasite cleanse.
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posted on
11/20/2008 12:52:44 PM PST
by
Kackikat
(.It's NOT over until it's over and it's NOT over yet....The Trumpet will sound....)
To: Joiseydude
Looks like the U.S. just got one.
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posted on
11/20/2008 12:54:08 PM PST
by
aruanan
To: Bertram3
I don’t know about the one you are stating, but most larvae can be killed by a prescription drug from the doctor...but it requires two or three different applications.
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posted on
11/20/2008 12:55:32 PM PST
by
Kackikat
(.It's NOT over until it's over and it's NOT over yet....The Trumpet will sound....)
To: radiohead
ROFL..you would be amazed what doctors, nurses and hospitals see on a regular basis. AND more so now than ever, since people are so nasty, and behavior so disgusting. In fact, there has been a huge return of bed bugs to hotels and motels that has not been seen in years. Travel is scary anymore.
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posted on
11/20/2008 12:58:12 PM PST
by
Kackikat
(.It's NOT over until it's over and it's NOT over yet....The Trumpet will sound....)
To: Joiseydude
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posted on
11/20/2008 1:19:08 PM PST
by
aruanan
To: Lancey Howard
Rod Serling’s “Night Gallery” and it was an earwig.
[pardon me but I have to scream now]
;]
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posted on
11/20/2008 1:33:18 PM PST
by
Salamander
(Welcome to Obamageddon! The best apocalypse foreign money can buy!)
To: Joiseydude
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posted on
11/20/2008 1:40:58 PM PST
by
x
To: Darnright
I looked at the video. Unfortunately, my home computer can't download the entire segment but it is flat in the frame I see which is reminescent of Taenia solium. Other parasites from pork could be the ascarids which have a tendency to migrate to wierd places or a renal worm of hogs which would be unlikely. Parasites in a specie that they are not usually accoustomed migrate to abnormal places because of the unfamiliar orientation.
To: Sacajaweau
House rules in our house. Great writing and acting.
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posted on
11/20/2008 4:57:55 PM PST
by
mcshot
(Bitterly Loving God, Family, Life, Guns and our Constitution - as written!)
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