#brain surgery

[caffeine-and-spells]

One of the doctors responsible for my brain surgery told me he could take a pic of my brain for me while they were in there.

I love that guy.

#I was like yes absolutely please do that #brain surgery #temporal lobe epilepsy #personal

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

Probably a silly idea, but what do you think of trepanation/burr hole surgery as a method to extract living yeerks? 1. anesthesia/shave hair patch-- 2. drill small hole (~1 cm)-- 3. insert small sharp hook tool-- 4. slowly pull out yeerk-- 5. staple skin back. (ideally, this might work as a threat to continue the yeerk to exit, rather than needing to actually do it)

I think the issue is that the yeerk is too wound up in the brain for the two to be separated without damaging both. Like, if you think about a human brain, it's shaped like a wadded-up piece of paper, with a bajillion wrinkles and hollows. If the yeerk is within those wrinkles and hollows, I don't see a way you could get it out without cutting through large parts of the brain — which doesn't end well for the host.

If there was a way to "flush" the brain, like with procedures that drain out cerebrospinal fluid, that might be a more effective way of removing the yeerk. There's still tremendous risk to the host, as people developed everything from epilepsy to stroke after air ventriculography, but that's the best I can come up with.

#animorphs #body horror #brain surgery #yeerks #psuedoscience #laws of applied phlebotinum

[red-writing-on-asylum-walls]

Day 24: Peeling Layer by Layer

Take my pride, take my life, take my body But don't take the ones that are close to me Oh, do with me what you want But please don't hurt my family - Bad Bad Things by AJJ

i'm not obsessed with @rottmnt-residuum i don't know what you're talking abou--(i trip and thousands of pictures of residuum spill out of my pockets)

#yes i know it's very similar to the piece i did on boxfullaturtles #but this time there's BRAINS! #i fuckin love residuum it terrifies me i adore it :D #my bloody art #blood #brain surgery #gore #goretober 2022 #goretober2022 #rottmnt

[arctic-hands]

1 YEAR SURGERYVERSARY/CYBORGIFICATION ANNIVERSARY

I LIVED BITCHES

#brain surgery #cyborg pride 🤖

[c0nfuzld]

Random quote of the day: The knowledge of a brain surgeon and a car mechanic cannot be compared to the other because neither could do the other’s job.

#quote of the life #random #beautiful quote #insane quote #quoteoftheday #quotes #knowledge #experience #brain surgery

[chrono-phage]

A friend of mine is in need of a bit of help. She's an incredibly empathetic person and isn't the type to take hand outs, but she is having brain surgery in a few weeks and I think it would be awesome to help take some financial burden off of her. I already donated but I want to do more to help.

If you are willing and able to pitch in, that would mean the world! And if you DM me proof of a donation of at least $15, I will crochet you a keychain :) (gofundme emails a receipt and a screenshot of that is ok)

Examples of a toadstool and a shrimp I made, but I can do nearly anything!

Reblogs are totally appreciated if you cannot support financially

#signal boost #crochet #brain surgery #gofundme #medical fundraiser #art #crochetblr #knit #knitblr #poc artist

[geneticallymodifiedshitposts]

i hate when people say "it's not rocket science". like no, it's not rocket science. it's something else. something harder. something more complicated. something more mysterious. something more awesome. it's brain surgery. or quantum physics. or time travel. or alchemy. or necromancy. or witchcraft. or wizardry. or sorcery. or magic

#shitpost #rocket science #brain surgery #quantum physics #time travel #alchemy #necromancy #witchcraft #wizardry #sorcery #magic

[sebtember5]

Sebastian Vettel in his brain surgeon era😭💙

#sebastian vettel #unemployed and happy #vettel #brain surgery #he is insane

[askthesorcerersupreme]

hear me out, in 10 years if you need brain surgery would you choose dr west or stephen?

I think I would ask Stephen to find me the best brain surgeon he can find. @doctorstrangeaskblog?

#wong #doctor strange #askthesorcerersupreme #brain surgery

[dougielombax]

Okay come on.

That’s TWICE now I’ve had to do brain surgery in a video game.

And they’re both Bethesda games?

Hmmm…

Why though?

#dougie rambles #personal stuff #brain #brain surgery #neurosurgery #tango gameworks #the evil within 2 #prey 2017 #arkane studios #gaming #wtf #wtf is going on #why #lobotomy #or lack thereof

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

By: Winkfield Twyman, Jr.

Published: Mar 29, 2024

A few years ago, my wife and I faced the health crisis of our marriage. My wife was diagnosed with a brain tumor and she needed immediate surgery. I mean, immediate as in cancel your travel plans to China and get your affairs in order. Write a final letter to your children. Tell them how much you love them. That kind of health crisis was in our lives.

We met with the surgeon, highly regarded as one of the top brain surgeons in San Diego. His credentials were stellar. He spoke with authority. One wants authority before brain surgery. My wife and I never gave a nanosecond of thought to the surgeon’s ancestry or ethnic group. I refuse to so identify the man of medicine who saved my wife’s life on that October day.

I am beside myself with fear when I hear that Social Justice has invaded the medical profession, particularly the delicate area of surgery.

Listen to me please, dear readers.

I do not care about Social Justice when my wife and mother of my children lies under the knife. When she is wheeled into the operating room and the door closes, I trust in one thing – competency. I want competency supremacy when a surgeon cuts into my wife’s skull. You can take your slogan words like white supremacy, oppression, marginalized, diversity, equity and inclusion and pound concrete-hard sand. Better yet, take a flying leap at the moon.

I am absolutely terrified to hear “Americas’ surgeons are not woke enough, according to the American College of Surgeons (ACS).” Do not treat my wife or me or my children as avatars for imagined oppression. We do not need your delusional pity and warped reality.

What is “a blueprint for implementing equitable practices” in medicine? There is no such creature. There is no such protocol. If I present with a brain tumor, assign me the best possible brain surgeon and let the surgeon work magic. I care not whether the surgeon shares my race. Why would I care? Please tell me. Does the tumor care whether my brain surgeon is the descendant of American slavery? I think not. It matters not to the tumor. Nor did it matter to my wife and me and our children on the date of my wife’s emergency surgery.

I would have lost my “retired from Blackness” mind if the exigent operation had been held up so that the hospital could locate a top descendant of American slavery surgeon in southern California. Or, shall I say the ACS has lost its mind to think equity matters in a time of life and death.

I try to imagine the madness away. I tell myself that the invasion of Social Justice into surgery is overblown hysteria by Fox News and white supremacists. My gut knows better. Any association that equates “micro aggressions,” “implicit bias,” and “White privilege” with care of my black American wife – well that is an association that has gone mad.

When a tumor occupies 1/3 of my wife’s cranial space, do I care about young surgeons trained in systemic and structural racism, disparities and black representation in the ACS? Please stop the world and let me get off. Now!

Do not do it, surgeons. Do not lump patients into racial groups. You are not a bean counter. Heal your patient, someone straining to be calm in the face of a dire diagnosis.

It is said that “Critical Race Theory-Related Ideas (are) Found in Programs At 108 of 155 Top American Medical Schools.” Thank God my wife had her emergency brain surgery in October 2016. The tumor is now gone and we bless the surgeon of authority who gave us a new lease on life.

As for today, I am afraid for my family, all descendants of American slavery, in the eyes of diversity, equity and inclusion training for surgeons. I am now afraid of young surgeons.

#Winkfield Twyman #Winkfield Twyman Jr #DEI #diversity equity and inclusion #diversity #equity #inclusion #DEI must die #corruption of medicine #medical corruption #social justice #critical race theory #American College of Surgeons #brain surgery #woke #wokeness #cult of woke #wokeism #wokeness as religion #ideological capture #ideological corruption #religion is a mental illness

[caffeine-and-spells]

Operated on 12/5

#personal #brain surgery #I have had the opporation #feel free to ask me questions #i’m bored #TW gore #TW: gore #tw: body horror

[problem-project]

Just found out there's a 50/50 chance I need brain surgery 🥴

#cripplepunk #brain surgery #csf leak #actually disabled #disabled

[resus-icu]

IaF s 16 ep. 41 - seizure during brain surgery

#hospital #intubation #respirator #female patient #electrodes #brain surgery #doctor #female doctor #seizure #blood pressure

[arctic-hands]

I'll be a cyborg tomorrow so I bought this necklace for the occasion

[Image Description: a metal pendant on a thin chain. The pendent is shaped like a classic sci-fi robot–blocky with pincer hands, two hollow circles for eyes, and a heartbeat monitor over the chest. On the stomach is a red asterisk-like scar with the Rod of Asclepius (a staff with a snake winding up around it). End I.D.]

#brain surgery #cyborg pride #medical alert jewelry #StickyJ #disabilty #chronic illness #just chronic illness things #mecore

[science-for-the-masses]

#science #science communication #scicomm #stem #science education #science blog #biology #brain surgery #Neurology #Neurosurgery