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Woman believed to have malignant tumor actually had tapeworm growing in her brain
KCCI ^
| Jun 1, 2019
| Kate Malongowski 
Posted on 06/02/2019 12:02:37 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The 42-year-old New York woman had trouble remembering words. She tried calling relatives who had died. She was having hallucinations and would drop things suddenly, WABC-TV and TODAY reported.
My episodes were getting more and more bizarre, she told TODAY. There were days that I didnt know where I was.
After countless doctors appointments, an MRI scan show[ed] a marble-sized lesion on the left side of her brain, which likely was a malignant tumor.
When she underwent a three-hour surgery to have the growth removed, doctors found something unexpected: a baby tapeworm.
"We were, like, overjoyed," Dr. Jonathan Rasouli told WABC. "We were, like, cheering and clapping."
(Excerpt) Read more at kcci.com ...
TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: babytapeworm; itsnotatumor; tapeworm
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To: Hot Tabasco
You/we didn’t build that - the wun.
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posted on
06/02/2019 1:23:26 PM PDT
by
wally_bert
(Disc jockeys are as intwerchangeable as spark plugs.)
To: BenLurkin
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...
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posted on
06/02/2019 1:46:26 PM PDT
by
Kriggerel
("All great truths are hard and bitter, but lies... are sweeter than wild honey" (Ragnar Redbeard))
To: Kriggerel
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posted on
06/02/2019 1:53:02 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: Hot Tabasco
Not to the Canadians. Go to You Tube and see how they go on about their ‘’free health care’’ and how marvelous, stupendous, and just how gosh darn great is is,eh? Not a thought to who and where all the R&D is done and who develops the drugs and medications and medical innovations that are used the world over. And boy, do they hate us for not having ''free health care''.
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posted on
06/02/2019 2:05:03 PM PDT
by
jmacusa
("The more numerous the laws the more corrupt the government''.)
To: reed13k
It’s probably not a direct side view but rather a diagonal “Slice”... we just aren’t used to oblique views.
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posted on
06/02/2019 2:29:42 PM PDT
by
piasa
(Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
To: reed13k
Or it’s a vertical slice but not dead center
more like a slice that cuts through an eye, rather than down the center of the nose. So, there is no spine or nose or chin in this portion to view but we can see a cross section of the brow and cheek.
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posted on
06/02/2019 2:38:23 PM PDT
by
piasa
(Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
To: BenLurkin
How could the egg get past the blood-brain barrier?
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posted on
06/02/2019 3:29:37 PM PDT
by
JohnnyP
(Thinking is hard work (I stole that from Rush).)
To: mikrofon
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posted on
06/02/2019 3:52:03 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
06/02/2019 3:52:32 PM PDT
by
wardaddy
(I applaud Jim Robinson for his comments on the Southern Monuments decision ...thank you)
To: jmacusa
Go to You Tube and see how they go on about their free health care
Don't have to, brother in law is an Oncologist here in Detroit and he gets lots of Widsorites coming to him for treatment........
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posted on
06/02/2019 4:24:45 PM PDT
by
Hot Tabasco
(I'm in the cleaning business.......I launder money)
To: wardaddy
This was a plot line in the very first episode of ‘House’. The condition is called “neurocysticercosis”
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posted on
06/02/2019 6:27:16 PM PDT
by
Pelham
(Secure Voter ID. Mexico has it, because unlike us they take voting seriously)
To: BenLurkin
That's...like... a surgeon...like... speaking? AOC's sister, the brain surgeon.
To: Hot Tabasco
I believe it. Telling you though to hear these Canadians tell it we're a bunch of Neanderthals because we don't have ‘’free health’’.
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posted on
06/02/2019 6:32:57 PM PDT
by
jmacusa
("The more numerous the laws the more corrupt the government''.)
To: BenLurkin
Better a tapeworm than a stroke.
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posted on
06/02/2019 7:02:44 PM PDT
by
353FMG
To: BenLurkin
Gosh - how terrible for a brain surgeon to be human enough to be genuinely happy when a patient isn’t going to die because the problem turns out easy to handle...
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posted on
06/03/2019 3:28:16 AM PDT
by
trebb
(Don't howl about illegal leeches while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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