Alien Hand Syndrome

"Karen Byrne, 55, suffers from Alien Hand Syndrome. The condition began after surgeons snipped her corpus callosum, connecting her brain's two hemispheres, to treat her epilepsy."

Apparently her left hand will spontaneously start undressing her or other things...

Via: Boingboing.net
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Rotationplasty

Great googily moogily. This is real, and sometimes very necessary. I had no idea it existed though. With all due respect to people that have this.

Via: Reddit.com

Lizzie Velasquez: Living with Neonatal Progeroid Syndrome (NPS)

"Most of us struggle to keep our weight down, but not Lizzie Velasquez. The 21-year-old woman from Austin, Texas actually has to eat every 15 minutes to say alive:

Miss Velasquez has a rare condition which prevents her from gaining weight even though she eats up to 60 small meals a day.

Despite consuming between 5,000 and 8,000 calories daily, the communications student, has never tipped over 4st 3lbs.

"I weigh myself regularly and if I gain even one pound I get really excited," said 5ft 2 ins Miss Velasquez, who wears size triple zero clothes."
...and she lives with this condition with courage and grace. Good for you Lizzie!

Via Neatorama.com
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The Bionic Kitteh

We'll make him faster, stonger, better than before...
"In a three-hour procedure, the veterinary surgical team inserted the pegs by drilling into one of Oscar’s ankle bones in each of his back legs. The implants, which are attached to the bone at the amputation site, were coated with hydroxyapatite to encourages bone cells to grow onto the metal."
Via Neatorama.com
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Surgically Implantable Bra

Gah!
“Breform is like a bra cup without the straps,” plastic surgeon Dalvi Humzah told The Daily Mail. “Over time, the mesh gets incorporated into the breast as the body produces a fibrous tissue that holds the structure in place – like a permanent bra under the skin.”
Via Neatorama.com
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9 Year Old Autistic Child Prescribed Pot Brownies for Pain

..and his problems with aggression have disappeared, AND, he is starting to excel in school!
Via Neatorama
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Life Saving Tongue Pulling

At one time in history, a man was hired to pull dead peoples tongues in a mortuary, in order to bring them back to life (if possible).

Via Boingboing.net
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New Way to Treat Dementia:

Or a new way of making people who suffer from dementia feel more comfortable anyway:

"...when a well-meaning carer points out to the person that they have forgotten something — say, to post a letter — they feel embarrassed and agitated. They have been unable to store the new information about needing to post the letter, but because they have been confronted with this fact, of which they have no knowledge, their overwhelming feeling is that they are not in control. Penny’s therapy is designed to cut out the confrontation that causes the person with dementia to dwell on negative emotions, so that even though they can’t remember what has just happened, they feel content."
Neatorama
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New Artificial Bone Made of Wood

Now a tree can be part of you:
"To create the bone substitute, the scientists start with a block of wood — red oak, rattan and sipo work best — and heat it until all that remains is pure carbon, which is basically charcoal.

The scientists then spray calcium over the carbon, creating calcium carbide. Additional chemical and physical steps convert the calcium carbide into carbonated hydroxyapatite, which can then be implanted and serves as the artificial bone."

Do this, and I'll tie yellow ribbons around you...

via Neatorama.com

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Heart Beating Machine:

Organ theives pay attention:
This machine keeps a heart beating OUTSIDE of the body.
"The computer-controlled machine, which operates using pressurized saline solution, also allows researchers to film the interior workings of the pumping heart - enabling them to ascertain exactly which surgical technologies and techniques perform best for repairing heart valves."

via neatorama.com

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Metal Gives Him Heart Attacks:

A musician with a heart defect has been warned his passion for extremely loud thrash metal could put his life in danger after he suffered three cardiac arrests in one day. Ryan Spearman, bass player with the Gnar Dogs, based in Barnstaple, was rushed to North Devon District Hospital, where he went into a coma.

Medics, who cannot name Mr Spearman's condition, have warned the 24-year-old to avoid loud, amplified music, energetic moshing and heavy riffing, in case the excitement brings on another - possibly lethal - attack. In addition, it is feared the powerful electromagnets in the band's amplifiers could interfere with his pacemaker.
Me: "That's to bad. I guess I'll be dying soon... Valhalla here I come!"

via arbroath.blogspot.com/

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Whoops, I got a leech in my eye...

Read this and then go put in your contacts:
"A LEECH which had attached itself to an Australian woman's eyeball has been removed by doctors who had to think "outside the box".
The 66-year-old woman was gardening in the backyard of her suburban Sydney home in March last year, when she accidentally flicked some moist soil and the leech into her left eye.
Her husband then watched in alarm as the leech wriggled its way over her cornea, headed for safety and a feed via the eye's mass of delicate blood vessels."

via arbroath.blogspot.com

(Click the pic to find out the safe and easy way they got it out...)

Real Life Mermaid

She is because she says she is, so there!
"Nadya Vessey's legs were amputated below the knee when she was a child due to illness, as a child she would tell her friends that she was actually a mermaid. She decided to stick to her story well into adulthood so much so that she wrote into the special effects firm responsible for the countless award winning film sequences for movies like Lord of the rings, Narnia and the sorts. Nadya now can swim comfortably with the prosthetic tailfin and hopes many other amputees get to experience such contraptions for themselves."

via Newlaunches

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Dementia: Working Long Hours Can Cause It

"Long working hours may raise the risk of mental decline and possibly dementia, research suggests.

The Finnish-led study was based on analysis of 2,214 middle-aged British civil servants.

It found that those working more than 55 hours a week had poorer mental skills than those who worked a standard working week."
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My eyes!

My eyes are drying out and soon I'll just have two pieces of coal where my eyes used to be so you can understand my need to keep them dry and smoke free.

I'm thinking a good solution would be to wear goggles during shows.

I sent the following 3 of my top choices to the band, and so far almost everyone has a different favorite. What do you think?
#1


#2


#3

Sheldon is having eye problems

Sheldon has a severe case of Dry Eyes. It's not the regular kind of dry eyes that you buy regular store bought eye drops for, it's the super ouchie can't wear his contacts anymore has to take steroid eye drops and may have surgery to get his tear ducts closed up kind of dry eyes. Expect to see him with glasses on at shows, or laugh hilariously at his expense as he bumps into people on stage...
(click the pic to read about Dry Eye Syndrome)