Honey, I Finished The Internet

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1. … or God/Angels spoke to her.

   1. Perhaps both, as the Angels are God’s messengers.

      What annoys me reading that small passage is how patronizing doctors are towards their female patients; things haven’t changed much since the 1980s. She’s lucky to have survived, being subjected to (I’m assuming) the NHS.

2. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/232271307_A_difficult_case_Diagnosis_made_by_hallucinatory_voices

3. To believe it you’d have to trust both a psychiatrist and his patient who hears voices.

   She didn’t have a brain tumor. She had a benign menigioma. Something that 1/1000 older people get with no symptoms. Slow growing, 95% survival, probably had it for years.

   1. It was a tumor, a meningioma, not “menigioma” as you stated. There is no indication that it was benign. You should actually read the article before you attempt to play doctor.

      1. I read several articles. There was no indication it was malignant. It would certainly have been stated, given the author’s flair for the dramatic. Also, the fact that the patient was still alive 12 years later pretty much guarantees it was benign. So, ignore my internet spelling error and work on YOUR comprehension.

4. Article from the Irish Times 1997
   “London – A woman was correctly told she had a brain tumour by voices in her head, doctors in Britain have said. The woman, who had no previous psychological problems, first heard a voice while at home reading, which asked her not to be afraid and said it and a friend wanted to help her. Fearing she had gone mad, she sought medical help.

   Consultant psychiatrist Mr Ikechukwu Azuonye wrote about his treatment of the woman in the British Medical Journal. He said she appeared to be cured after receiving counselling and medication, but while on holiday her hallucination returned. This time there were two voices. They told her to return to England immediately because there was something wrong with her. Back in London, the voices gave her an address to go to – the brain scan department of a large London hospital. The woman persuaded her husband to drive her there.

   A brain tumour was discovered, which was duly removed, after which she made a full recovery. As she regained consciousness after the operation she heard the voices for the final time. They told her: “We are pleased to have helped you. Goodbye.” One explanation put forward at a medical conference where Mr Azuonye described the case was she had sensed a feeling in her head which led her to fear she had a tumour.”

5. My liver yells at me every day. 😉

   1. If it can still talk, all is well.