‘Oh my God’: live worm found in Australian woman’s brain in world-first discovery | Health [The Guardian]
‘Oh my God’: live worm found in Australian woman’s brain in world-first discovery | Health [The Guardian]
Woman complained of forgetfulness and depression before doctors pulled out an 8cm roundworm normally found in pythons
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It's too bad that the brain doesn't have the capability to feel itself. Imagine the fun of having a little buddy wiggling through your thoughts.
Maybe it'd even tickle :3A past team member of mine had a client who kept telling providers that she "has worms in my brain." Multiple providers discounted the medical relevance of this individual's claims as delusions due to her schizophrenia-spectrum disorder and her low level of function.
My team member fought the providers like hell to get her an fMRI. Well the fMRI showed her brain was riddled with at that point inoperable tumors, and she died not long afterwards.
I'd heard other accounts of similar stories, but that was the first real-world example I had. If I had a client telling me there were ants in his belly, I'm not going to believe that's accurate, but I made damn sure we addressed it with providers.
People can describe physical symptoms in seemingly bizarre ways. Even if the exact scenario they are describing is clearly false, it doesn't mean they aren't experiencing very real physical symptoms.
Reminds me of an episode of one of those medical shows where a nonverbal autistic kid keeps trying to tell everyone he's got worms in his eyes but he can only tell them by drawing the worms so it just looks like a bunch of squiggly lines on paper.
Or shutter island when DiCaprio is talking about his dead wife saying she had a bug in her brain before going crazy and killing their kids.
I remember that! I'm pretty sure that was an episode of House.
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Oh god you just unlocked ptsd I didn't even know I had
Damn this a bad memory
Chomp :)
Hey thanks buddy have some thought juice to go along with that
Therapy-worm just munching away on all your trauma.
I, for one, welcome our parasitic overlords!
I hate you 😵💫
"I ate you"
I felt that just by reading it, thank you very much.
Then they'd have to use anesthesia when doing brain surgery