More about brains

TRANSPLANT

John's family gathered to hear what the specialists had to say. "Things don't look good. The only chance is a brain transplant.

This is an experimental procedure. It might work, but the bad news is that brains are very expensive, and you will have to pay the cost yourselves."

"Well, how much does a brain cost?" asked the relatives.

"For a male brain, $1,500,000. For a female brain, $200,000."

Some of the younger male relatives tried to looked shocked, but all the men nodded because they thought they understood. A few actually smirked. But the patient's daughter was unsatisfied and asked, "Why the difference in price between male and female brains?"

"A standard pricing practice." said the head of the medical team. "Women's brains have to be marked down because they have been used."

(not sure I have any fellows out there that read this blog, but if I do, sorry, this story tickled my funny bone)

Surprises

I am completely astonished that my hair is coming back curly!

All my life I have back-combed, rolled, permed and struggled to give my poker straight a bit of body. For the most part my locks have laid flat to my head.
I have a new colour, new texture and wow! curls.
A whole new me.

If I only had a brain..... I need the Wizard!!!

On Friday I am having a CT-scan of my brain. I have been struggling with what is described at chemo brain, mild cognitive impairment. It was previously thought that chemotherapy drugs didn't enter your brain, but were kept out by the blood-brain barrier, which separates chemicals that should be in your brain from those that shouldn't. Researchers now suspect some chemotherapy drugs may be able to slip past the blood-brain barrier. This could potentially affect your brain and your memory.

The scan was ordered just to make sure there is nothing else going on.

Signs and symptoms of chemo brain include:

■Being unusually disorganized
■Confusion
■Difficulty concentrating
■Difficulty finding the right word
■Difficulty learning new skills
■Difficulty multitasking
■Fatigue
■Feeling of mental fogginess
■Short attention span
■Short-term memory problems
■Taking longer than usual to complete routine tasks
■Trouble with verbal memory, such as remembering a conversation
■Trouble with visual memory, such as recalling an image or list of words

Signs and symptoms of cognitive or memory problems vary from person to person and are typically temporary, often subsiding within two years of completion of cancer treatment.

Never say Never

While I was at the C-clinic yesterday they gave me the H1N1 vaccine. My arm is very sore today. Those who have had the shot tell me this was true for them too.

I was not going to get the shot. I have only had a flu shot once in my life (big push at the hospital I was working at) that ended with me getting the worst case of the flu I had e-v-e-r had about 10 days later. I vowed I would never do this again.

Old Doc Webster talked me into getting the shot. He said that this is a nasty flu that has serious consequences for some.

http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/alert-alerte/h1n1/faq_rg_h1n1-eng.php#faq1

Bad Hair Day

I am so excited!!! It finally happened! I had a bad hair day.

I woke up and there is was, a tuft of hair at the back of my head standing straight up. It required a little water and several pats to tame. I am so blessed that my hair is coming back in, thick, soft, renewed.

more about bad hair days

•If you woke up in the morning with more health than illness, you are more blessed than the million who will not survive this week.
•If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture or the pangs of starvation, you are ahead of 500 million people in the world.
•If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep, you are richer than 75 percent of this world.
•If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish someplace, you are among the top 8 of the world’s wealthy.
•If you hold up your head with a smile on your face and are truly thankful, you are blessed because the majority can, but most do not.
•If you can read this message, you just received a double blessing in that someone was thinking of you and, furthermore, you are more blessed than over 2 billion people in the world who cannot read at all.
So, when you feel very down, just remember how blessed you are.