Posted on 06/02/2023 5:34:34 PM PDT by algore
A woman trapped in her own mind for two decades has woken up and is able to be with her family again thanks to a revolutionary new treatment.
April Burrell was just a 21 in 1995 when she suffered a traumatic event while studying accountancy at university in Maryland, US, that left her suffering from constant visual and auditory hallucinations.
She was diagnosed with a severe form of schizophrenia, a devastating mental illness that dramatically alters sufferers' sense of reality.
April spent the next 20 years trapped in a cationic state, unable to recognise her family and having her every need cared for in a psychiatric hospital in New York.
Until one day, she woke up thanks to a team of medics who treated her for lupus — a disorder that they discovered was causing her immune system to attack her brain.
Her doctors hope the discovery could help treat hundreds of patients in a similar situation.
'She would just stare and just stand there,' he said. 'She wouldn't shower, she wouldn't go outside, she wouldn't smile, she wouldn't laugh. And the nursing staff had to physically manoeuvre her.'
Almost two decades later Professor Markx would meet April again
Shocked there had been no improvement in 20 years, Professor Markx spoke to her family and gathered a team of experts to run a full analysis on her condition. Professor Sander Markx, director of precision psychiatry at Columbia University, was one of the team of medics who treated the woman, and said there could be other 'forgotten' patients who could be similarly helped
The process was long and arduous. April needed to undergo immunotherapy treatment using powerful drugs to bring her immune system back into line.
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Studying accounting will do that ****************************************************
It was probably the mandatory statistics courses. ;-)
I was very lucky and found a vintage pre-Fiorina hp calculator with a proper enter button instead of an everything is = key the other day :)
I know a lady right now with lupus who also caught Covid for the first time and has to isolate at home for two weeks.
After 20 years I hope she is well rested.
This is good news, maybe we can get our country back.
I’m still using my HP 32s that I bought in 1990. No one else around here will use it because it’s RPN.
I never got covid, never took HCQ.
Before this one I saw one in a pawn shop
Asked to see it
Told them possibly it was broken.
I pushed some buttons and said I tried like 6x5 and i can’t even get an answer
I figured the odds they could work it were an almost almost infinite improbability but 40 years ago there were 2 genders and two types of calculators
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