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[rekaru]

/>does anybody knowmanything about hypoglycemia? if a child is born with it to the degree of severity that it has seizures, can the child enter a permanent vegetative state?

People are not just "born with hypoglycemia", there's an underlying cause for this condition and so it can usually be treated rather easily. It's also extremely rare for hypoglycemia to do anything permanent. In fact it never happens unless there's already some other preexisting condition, mayybe if the hypoglycemia is severe and left untreated for a long long time then there will be some neurological damage. So yes, it's possible, but that child would have to be extremely unlucky.

Anyway this is all just hearsay and I'm sure google could be much more help. After all, why are you asking this (especially here)?

[kspr]

google isn't helpful. one of my friends had a baby two weeks ago, and it's been in icu the entire time because of hypoglycemia related difficulties. i just ask because you never know who knows what and where.

[Jody]

That's awful. =( Poor little babby.

[rekaru]

Ah, shoot, two weeks? Neonatal hypoglycemia is ugly and may cause brain damage if it's extremely severe, but I don't believe it can cause the child to go into a vegetative state.

I hope it all works out for the best :(

[kspr]

benefits of a cold shower

[lazlo falconi]

/>I wasn't aware we were getting one! A+ COMMUNICATION.

In any case, apparently it's a good thing I'm not scared of the smart meter. Like some guys I know.

I told you when we got the letter. Guess you weren't listening to me...

[Jody]

No you didn't. You make up situations like this that didn't actually happen to make me feel bad later, because you are a faggot.

Also, I love you.

[Stars]

I get to do some job shadowing at a heart hospital today (finally)~

I'm trying to do whatever I can to give my credentials a boost for when I re-apply for sonography classes for next fall. I also plan to apply to the school's radiology program to have a better chance of getting into at least one of them.
I'll be watching them do things like echocardiograms, MRIs, and CT scans so I can see how things are done from the technician's pov. (I've seen a CT scan from the patient's side, but that probably won't count for anything. xp)

[lazlo falconi]

Seeing a CT scan from the tech's point of view was (for me at least) rather boring. Then again, they were pretty absorbed in doing it and I had to keep asking her what was up.

[Stars]

I got to talk to the CT guy (Bob) for a while before he had a patient, so that probably helped in my case.

Lesse, I saw Bob first, and he explained how the scanner works and what they can do with the results. I watched some vascular ultrasound (they scanned a guy's legs to check for plaque in his arteries). I got to watch a TEE (transesophageal echocardiogram), which looks like no kind of fun; they stick a tube with a camera down your throat to take a sonogram from behind your heart. Then they defibrilated the TEE patient, and I learned that the movies do not exagerate how much it makes a body jolt.
After lunch, I saw Bob again and watched the process of putting a patient through he CT scanner. I know I had one done on me once a couple years ago, but I barely remember most of that morning...which kinda goes along with why I was at the hospital in the first place. xp If the hospital had been busier that day, I would have gotten to see some nuclear medicine (which I knew nothing about), but I did at least have it explained to me. The last thing I did was watch them install a pacemaker. I didn't get to be close enough to see any viscera, but I was in the OR and got to watch the doctors and the monitors at least. There was an x-ray display of the patient's chest, so I could kinda see what they were doing in there. It was funny because the whole time they were talking about random stuff like Food Network shows and long-distance bicycle training.
Chad, the main guy I went around with, also gave me a bunch of advice on how to prepare for clinicals and what to look at in the job market and such. Should be helpful if/when I finially get into one of these programs.

[kspr]

Fishin' Accomplished

[Stars]

At last the 1985 attempted assassination of Dr. Emmett Brown has been avenged.

[kspr]

did you get my joke? they found him in a storm drain

[Stars]

I assumed it was a reference to "a 'Big Fish' has been captured."

[lazlo falconi]

Name the VLA

The VLA is the most famous radio telescope in the world and it's looking to get a new name. One of the names put forth and mostly agreed upon by a space forum I go to is the "Cosmically Attuned Radio Listener for Star And Galaxy Astromical Navigation" which shortens to CARL SAGAN. It would be a great honor to the man that introduced astronomy and science to generations, and we'd like to get as much help as we can to get it named such. If you agree with our mission, please vote. And if you don't, feel free to come up with your own name. (Just please, don't name it Colbert's Array)

[Vicious Parker]

How is this not the greatest picture ever taken?

[kspr]

is that bono and the edge?

[Vicious Parker]

Nope, it's Micheal Stipe of REM wearing a Sonic shirt, and Thom Yorke of Radiohead. I wish I knew what is on his shirt.

[Monkeydog]

That is the best photo ever taken.

Sonic looks shocked.

[kspr]

i just got banhammered from another forum b/c someone posted a bunch of horsedicks, and instead of reporting it, i just said mine was bigger. the internet is a strange land.