Doctors find tapeworm larva in California man's brain

Click On Detroit ^ | Nov 05 2015 | Ken Haddad

[Gamecock]

A California man went to an emergency room with a terrible headache and nausea, slipped into a coma, and was told a tapeworm larva had been living in his brain when he woke up.

The surgery and the aftermath have greatly impacted his life, Ortiz said. He had to drop out of school, move back home and find a temporary place for his dog. He can't drive or work.

"My memory is like a work in progress," he said. "It gets better from therapy," but he has to remind himself to do his memory exercises and other daily tasks.

The worm was forming in a cyst that was blocking the flow of water to chambers in his brain, "like a cork in a bottle," Singel told the Napa Valley Register

Another 30 minutes of that blockage, and "he would have been dead," Singel said. "It was a close call."

[Gamecock]

Lot’s of similar stories around the interweb.

[dfwgator]

But it was only fantasy.
The wall was too high,
As you can see.
No matter how he tried,
He could not break free.
And the worms ate into his brain.

[Feckless]

Burnt toast and a rotten egg....

[HangnJudge]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cysticercosis

[Uversabound]

Ah! Great quote.

Roger waters is coming out with a new albumn. He must need money.

More doom and gloom. OH life sucks so much blah blah blah.

This is what life long socialism does to people.

[Disambiguator]

I think I’ve seen that trichinosis can also end up in your brain.

Doesn’t sound like much fun.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

All you need to do is follow the worms.

[Fhios]

I saw that on an episode of House — no really.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

The surgery and the aftermath have greatly impacted his life,

After they took the worm out in the surgery and his brain started to clear up, he started to vote Republican.

[oblomov]

Yes, tapeworms are a key Democratic constituency.

[Politicalkiddo]

Reminds me of the first episode of House.

[subterfuge]

Nicely done!

[oldvirginian]

Yes you did.
First season, second or third show I believe.

They convinced the patient by showing her an X-ray of a worm in her thigh.

Great show. I enjoyed just about every episode.

[S.O.S121.500]

Epidemic in CA.

[a fool in paradise]

Pleasant dreams...

[a fool in paradise]

Now I understand how Governor Moonbeam was re-elected.

[Slings and Arrows]

On the bright side, it's jump-started his music career.

[Daffynition]

When the tapeworm has cancer ....

Man died with 'tapeworm tumours'[BBC]

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

DANG!