Doctors find worm in woman's brain

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Doctors in Arizona thought a Phoenix-area woman had a possible brain tumor, but it turned out there was something else penetrating her brain – a worm.
Rosemary Alvarez started experiencing numbness in her arm and blurred vision. She went to the emergency room twice and had a cat scan, but everything came up clear, MyFOXPhoenix.com reported.
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It wasn’t until doctors took a closer look at an MRI that they discovered something very disturbing.
“Once we saw the MRI we realized this is something not good,” neurosurgeon, Dr. Peter Nakaji told the news station. “It's something down in her brain stem which is as deep in the brain as you can be.”
Alvarez was wheeled into surgery where Nakaji and his colleagues were expecting to remove a tumor, but they uncovered a worm instead.
On a video of the surgery, Nakaji can be heard chuckling after he made the discovery.
“I'm sure this is a very strange response for the people in the operating room,” he told MyFOXPhoenix.com. “But because I was so pleased to know that it wasn't going to be something terrible.”
Doctors removed the worm and don't believe Alvarez will have any lingering health problems. No one knows exactly where she picked up the worm –- doctors said worms can come from eating undercooked pork or spread by people who don’t wash their hands after using the bathroom, according to the report.
“It only takes one person who is spreading it constantly to get a lot of people exposed and some of those people are going to go on to develop this problem,” Nakaji said.
Alvarez, who is now healthy and has resumed normal activities such a playing ball with family in her backyard, said she hopes people learn this lesson from her story.
“Wash your hands, wash your hands,” she added.

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[yanna]

Yikes!!! Who did they bring in for the surgery, Dr House?

[McJag]

OMG. I an going to have nightmares!

[Grimmlok]

Nooo! NOOOOOOOO!

[McJag]

Damnit,you killed Grimm!

[celeb_2006]

Now that's an ogrish moment!

Wash your hands (pretty darned hard to make sure this happens as a LOT of people don't wash their hands), don't eat undercooked pork, no sushi.

[venue_26]

Full body shudder!!!! Full body shudder!!!

[aabbcc]

Eeewww. *shiver*

[msdeb]

i love my bacon partially cooked. welp, it will be burnt from now on. no worms in my brain.

[KristiB]

The worms go in
The worms go out
The worms play pinochle on your snout
And then you turn an icky green
And puss runs out like whipping cream
Don't you wish you had a straw??
Sluuuurp

Old camp song

[mizglam]

That was fucking creepy.
*Runs off to wash hands.*

[greysfang]

I told that stupid bitch not to swallow the worm, but she was too drunk to listen.

[NicoleWasHere]

Sweet

[Sweetie]

I think I know a few people that may suffer from this!

[twitchy2.0]

The worms go in
The worms go out
The worms play pinochle on your snout
And then you turn an icky green
And puss runs out like whipping cream
Don't you wish you had a straw??
Sluuuurp

Old camp song

I knew it as:

The worms crawl in and
The worms crawl out
The worms that crawl in are lean and thin
The worms that crawl out are fat and stout
Your eyes fall in and your teeth fall out
Your brain slime pouring out your snout

I wonder how many versions of this there are? Classic!