My dentist and her entire staff are women.
Posted on 01/27/2017 3:53:18 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
Doctors in India were stunned to remove a tapeworm measuring more than 6 feet through a patient's mouth, according to a report published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Dr. Cyriac Phillips wrote in an email that the 48-year-old man underwent a colonoscopy in 2014 after complaints of "tolerable" abdominal pain that had gone on for two months and test results indicating low hemoglobin concentrations in his blood.
While performing the colonoscopy, Phillips discovered part of the worm.
"It was an undulating, moving piece of the worm, " he said, "This worm segment was confirmation that there was a tapeworm infestation in this patient."
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When I was in the USAF we were forced to watch movies made by the Nazis that had infected the Jews with parasites and then autopsied them to recover the live worms. The military still has these films but I've yet to see them since.
I worked the parasitology lab when the Vietnamese refugees were sent to Eglin the summer of 1975 and got to see just about every parasite known to man.
All I do now is look at dog poop and identify the common parasites they have.
Yes, these non-FDA-approved capsules actually worked! They effective enough to be investigated by the gov’t (FDA I think) and were found to contain the tapeworm eggs. Ha.
My dentist and her entire staff are women.
Those look like Ascarids. See them pointy little tips! Nasty little things!
Too much sushi?
That reminds me of a method for getting rid of crabs.
You go to a movie and feed them salty popcorn. When they get up to get a drink you change seats.
Same where I go. I’m mesmerized watching them walk around.
You guys are
Making me
Gag and laugh
Threads like this are why I love FR.
Wow, I’m dense. I didn’t get the joke untill I read your comment.
I’m
Not
Doing
India
Again
12 days in the hospital.
I hit a boulder and broke the ball off of my left femur, my leg was just dangling...odd thing was that no one believed that I broke my leg.
I skied from my accident site to the groomed slope when I realized that my left ski was not behaving, so to speak. It was crossed over my right ski.
When I tried to lift my left leg a small ‘lump’ would appear to the left of my crotch so I knew I was injured.
Odd thing was that I looked too good to have such a massive trauma.
It’s a long story but even my Doctor did not believe that I had broken my leg: ‘you would have a lot of bruising if you had injured your leg like that,’ he said.
It’s odd, but I only bruise a week or so after I have an injury. Weird.
The X-Ray nurses only took one X-Ray of me and I asked them to take another: ‘You don’t have a broken leg,’ they said.
Then the Doctor whistled: ‘Wow! we only see this type of break from horses and motorcycles!’
The nurses procedded to take many more X-Rays at the direction of the Doctor.
I have been to a number of Trauma conferences since and have come to learn that I was extremely lucky to have survived my break. One session was on injured people who do not seem injured. I spoke with the Nurse that conducted that session. There are actually folks like me who do not bruise right away and it’s a problem for first responders...
I ski much less now and stick to the ‘groomers.’ I don’t ride horses and have sold my Ducatis.
I have a good life and today is our 24th anniversary. I’ll have a nice cigar and take a dip in the hot tub.
May you always be catheter free my FRiend.
Happy anniversary. Enjoy it and may you have many more.
LOL! I love caviar too!
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