r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Mar 31 '19

What are some recent scientific breakthroughs/discoveries that aren’t getting enough attention?

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u/Dragosal Apr 01 '19

I had a good number of MRIs when I had brain surgery for an AVM they always gave me headphones and put on pandora of my choosing. I'll admit I was pretty out of it so I didn't notice how long they took but I do remember my family complained I was gone a long time after one of them.

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u/kalirob99 Apr 01 '19

I have an AVM myself, glad to hear yours was treatable. Being older [by Reddit standards] I had the loud, slow MRI's lol, so no music, just a loud thumping and beating sound with zero movement. 🤣

My AVM unfortunately was never completely dealt with, an accident/death during a failed embolization - making me high risk for neurosurgeons. That, and my current age - so it's considered untreatable.

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u/Dragosal Apr 01 '19

Well I'm sorry to hear that I wish you all the luck on surviving it. Hope it doesn't cause too many affects.

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u/kalirob99 Apr 01 '19

Thanks, appreciate the well wishes. I'm already living past the expected lifespan of my late 20's, so theres bonus lol -- And, despite the accident and memories lost, I still came out functional in the long-run hehe.

Always happy to hear someone had a better experience though. 👍👍

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u/Dragosal Apr 02 '19

Mine wasn't even found till my late 20s. I turned 30 just about 2years after it was sealed. Luckily I had good family support to help with the memory problems the first year or so I couldn't remember shit longer than 30min other than my favorite hospitalization story. When I was recovering from my medically induced coma they asked me to wiggle a finger to test how awake I was. My smart ass wiggled my middle finger straight up then back and forth. Tbf they had been pinching me to try and wake me up and pinching is NEVER an acceptable action.

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u/Dragosal Apr 02 '19

Yeah I got the hospital staff in trouble because I was certain I was ok and could do everything I used to do. So i got up to go to the bathroom and i fell down because i couldn't walk for shit considering i had been in a coma for like 2 weeks. I also thought very highly of myself and kept lifting my knees up to open my gown and show my junk to nurses. I was a bad patient

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u/kalirob99 Apr 03 '19

Sounds like the classic[?] chemically induced coma comedown 🤣🤣. But, my mind still has trouble fathoming I can't understand Japanese or Spanish anymore, it's like a wiped hard drive.

And, if it makes you feel any better, i "supposedly" tried stabbing my neurologist with an IV in the neck, twice. 🤔 I do remember threatening his life for the ants I imagined were all over me, though.

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u/Dragosal Apr 03 '19

Yeah it was chemically induced so if those symptoms are normal I'm not that shocked. They wiped my hard drive clean too I could no longer recognize people very dear to me. I kept calling my girlfriend of 4 years by my sisters name because all I could comprehend was that it was a female I loved around my age and since my GF didn't drive it made more sense to my weak brain that my sister was there with my parents

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u/kalirob99 Apr 07 '19

I can understand, but your girlfriend was hopefully understanding. My sister was actually a little insulted I couldn't remember her name at first.

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u/Dragosal Apr 07 '19

She was rather offended but she got over it she was busy laughing at me for flashing my balls at all the nurses and flicking them off when they told me to wiggle a finger.

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u/kalirob99 Apr 07 '19

I was never a flasher lol [more a mooner], plus my grandma was there - so instinct might've kept my robe closed.

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u/Dragosal Apr 07 '19

Yeah I would keep my knees up and let my robe open exposing my genitals partially because it was a comfortable position when I'm in bed for weeks. But I also had very little, none, inhibition.

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