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She lived for 99 years with organs in all the wrong places and never knew it
CNN ^ | April 8, 2019 | Sandee LaMotte

Posted on 04/08/2019 8:40:33 PM PDT by EdnaMode

On an early spring day in 2018, the faint smell of formaldehyde floating in the air, 26-year-old medical student Warren Nielsen and four of his classmates prepped a cadaver in the chilly dissection lab at Oregon Health and Science University in Portland.

Similar groups of five gathered around bodies on the other 15 tables in the anatomy class, all eager to explore the mysteries of the human body they had seen only in textbooks.

The cadaver assigned to Nielsen's team was a 99-year-old woman who had died of natural causes. Her name was Rose Marie Bentley, but the students didn't know that then. To honor and respect the privacy of those who offer their bodies to science, no further details are given medical students about the person who had once inhabited the body lying on the silvery slab before them.

But as the students and their professors were soon to find out, Bentley was special, so special she deserved her own unique spot in medical literature and history books.

The reason? A condition called situs inversus with levocardia, in which most vital organs are reversed -- almost like a mirror inside the body. That, along with a host of other weird but wonderful abnormalities, made Bentley a sort of medical unicorn.

"I think the odds of finding another person like her may be as remote as one in 50 million," said assistant professor Cameron Walker, who teaches the Foundations of Clinical Anatomy class at Oregon Health and Science University. "I don't think any of us will ever forget it, honestly."

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


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KEYWORDS: anatomy; bentley; levocardia; oregon; organ; organs; portland; rosebentley; rosemariebentley
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Imagine if her organs had been in the right place. She might have lived to be 120.
1 posted on 04/08/2019 8:40:33 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: EdnaMode

I’m sure her heart was in the right place all 99 years.

So, were her Big Toes where her Little Toes should have been? Were her Thumbs and Pinkies swapped? How far does this “reverse” go?


2 posted on 04/08/2019 8:43:23 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: EdnaMode

or maybe that’s why she lived so long :)

our organs are in the wrong places!! :)


3 posted on 04/08/2019 8:44:20 PM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know if.. Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR)
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To: dp0622

I only have a piano.


4 posted on 04/08/2019 8:46:32 PM PDT by pax_et_bonum (Never Forget the SEALs of Extortion 17 - and God Bless The USA and President Trump.)
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To: pax_et_bonum

LOL

It won’t fit!


5 posted on 04/08/2019 8:47:02 PM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know if.. Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR)
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To: dp0622

Haha. That would explain it. :D


6 posted on 04/08/2019 8:49:57 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: EdnaMode

7 posted on 04/08/2019 8:50:09 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
So, were her Big Toes where her Little Toes should have been? Were her Thumbs and Pinkies swapped? How far does this “reverse” go?

The entire body layout is reversed (left/right) as in a mirror image.

As you may have noticed when viewing yourself in a mirror, this does not affect the perceived configuration of your big toes and little toes.

Nor will your mirror image appear to be "standing on its head."

Regards,

8 posted on 04/08/2019 8:50:25 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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I’ll have to check my mirror tonight. Could have sworn it flipped finger and toes.

Maybe I’ll also check the mirror in the hall bathroom. The Master Bedroom mirror might be up to its old tricks. I hope those guys are conspiring when I’m sleeping.


9 posted on 04/08/2019 8:52:13 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ProtectOurFreedom; EdnaMode; dp0622; Gamecock; SaveFerris; PROCON

Long as she didn’t have man hands.


10 posted on 04/08/2019 8:54:08 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Larry Lucido

Like George the Animal Steele!! :)


11 posted on 04/08/2019 8:54:46 PM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know if.. Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR)
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To: Larry Lucido

She grabs his hand and squashes it when he goes in her purse lol


12 posted on 04/08/2019 8:55:15 PM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know if.. Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR)
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To: grey_whiskers

Are those three going to be next week’s Democrat candidates entering the race for 2020? They need to buy some three piece suits first. No one holds a rally in a long, shiny aluminum gown.


13 posted on 04/08/2019 8:55:35 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: dp0622

Was thinking the same. If she made it to 99 with the “wrong” anatomy, not sure how thrilled the rest of us should be about being “right.”


14 posted on 04/08/2019 8:55:51 PM PDT by irishjuggler
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To: EdnaMode

Sometimes I tune into CNN, then realize my brain is reversed but soon as I view the b.s. and lies, I snap out of it.


15 posted on 04/08/2019 8:57:01 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie ("The media is the enemy of the American people." Democrat Pat Caddell)
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To: dp0622

Yes!


16 posted on 04/08/2019 8:57:07 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: dp0622

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SLQRW7J_D0U


17 posted on 04/08/2019 8:59:46 PM PDT by pax_et_bonum (Never Forget the SEALs of Extortion 17 - and God Bless The USA and President Trump.)
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To: EdnaMode

I remember reading, quite a few years back, of a man who had his organs just opposite of where they should be. So it has happened before.


18 posted on 04/08/2019 9:02:39 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

My digestive tract is completely reversed, but heart, lungs are normal. It’s been an issue a couple of times, the docs don’t believe me until they’ve seen it for themselves (don’t ask, it’s not pleasant).
I also have an appendix which runs the width of the abdominal cavity, from the wrong side; very unusual I’m told. Doc told me to pay attention to pains coming from anywhere, and to tell the ER.


19 posted on 04/08/2019 9:10:41 PM PDT by cephalopod (I am a Viking of some note, Knut's my name and here I float.)
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To: grey_whiskers

Captain Pike lives on!


20 posted on 04/08/2019 9:19:07 PM PDT by Free in Texas (Celebrate diversity. Own firearms of every caliber.)
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