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Post by tdallasw on Jul 24, 2003 11:05:43 GMT -5
Okay folks. This thread is for you to post those weird stories that you see on the news sites. Strange, unusual, dumb crook news, etc. I've got one for you today that is just too cute.  Polar Bear Turns Purple After Medication  Don't adjust your computer screen, your eyes are not fooling you. And no, the images aren't a result of digital enhancement or a Photoshop trick. A female polar bear named Pelusa turned purple after she was given a special treatment to clear up a skin condition. The strange sight has attracted crowds of visitors at the Mendoza City Zoo in Argentina. Zoo officials said her fur will go back to her normal cream color in a few days. The 14-year-old bear suffers from dermatitis.
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Post by bugs2u on Jul 24, 2003 13:49:59 GMT -5
Now how did that polar bear cutie know that purple is my fav-o-rite color???  |
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Post by HIATUSHOWRU on Jul 24, 2003 15:39:56 GMT -5
it was a two eyed one dyed purple polar honey eater...
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Post by Dbaby on Jul 24, 2003 17:20:37 GMT -5
it was a two eyed one dyed purple polar honey eater... LOL! |
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Post by MzClassic on Jul 25, 2003 3:26:30 GMT -5
LOL...Tdallas :laughing: :laughing: I saw that on the news and thought something was wrong with my tv...just another "BARNEY" wannabe :laughing: :laughing:
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Post by Lynnie on Jul 25, 2003 9:52:31 GMT -5
www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/07/22/tongue.ap/index.htmlTongue swap patient recovering
Tuesday, July 22, 2003 Posted: 10:54 AM EDT (1454 GMT)
In a 14-hour operation doctors amputated the patient's tongue and attached the new one
VIENNA, Austria (AP) -- A patient who doctors say is the first-ever recipient of a human tongue transplant was recovering Tuesday and showed no signs of rejecting his new organ, his doctors said.
The patient, a 42-year-old man who suffered from a malignant tumor on his tongue and part of his jaw, underwent a 14-hour operation on Saturday in which doctors amputated his tongue and attached the new one.
"The tongue now looks as if it were his own -- it's as red and colorful and getting good blood circulation," said Dr. Rolf Ewers, the head of the team of nine physicians who performed the operation in Vienna's General Hospital.
"The tongue is just slightly swollen," Ewers added. "That's also a good sign which means that probably no transplant rejection has begun."
But the doctors also said that the patient, whose name was not released, could still face risks such as infection or rejection of the organ.
He will have to take medication for the rest of his life to prevent rejection.
The team will consider the operation successful if the patient, who could no longer open his mouth because of the tumor, regains his ability to eat and speak. Surgeons worked meticulously to attach the nerves of the tongue to the severed nerve endings.
"It's very unlikely he'll regain his sense of taste," Ewers said. "But (regaining) feeling and primarily, movement, would be an optimal result."
Traditionally, in cases where patients lose their tongues, surgeons remove a small piece of their small intestines and graft that onto the tongue stump, the doctors said. Such patients, however, are never able to speak clearly or swallow again, and must be fed through tubes.
The recipient's "new" tongue was first removed from a brain-dead donor by a separate team of doctors in an adjacent operating room and quickly handed over for transplantation, said Dr. Franz Watzinger, one of the leading surgeons.
The donor -- chosen because his blood type and tongue sized matched that of the 42-year old -- was then taken off life support.
Ewers said the team of doctors had been preparing for two years to carry out the tongue transplant, but had until now either lacked a candidate for the operation or an appropriate donor.
"And now finally after long training we were able to carry it out," Dr. Christian Kermer said.
He said there is no evidence in the medical literature that such an operation has even been carried out on humans and that his team felt convinced they were the first.
I don't think you guys would want to see a picture, but click on the link if you do.
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Post by Dbaby on Jul 25, 2003 10:14:23 GMT -5
LOL! First thing I thought when I read it was "oooh! I hope there's a picture!"
It's kinda gross, but it's amazing what doctors can do now!
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Post by Lynnie on Jul 25, 2003 10:20:10 GMT -5
I would have never imagined that you could replace your tongue! It's VERY gross, but I guess the man had to have it done...
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Post by tdallasw on Jul 25, 2003 10:44:09 GMT -5
If we think about all the places tongues might have been.... YIKES! :hairraiser:
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Post by Lynnie on Jul 25, 2003 10:52:35 GMT -5
If we think about all the places tongues might have been.... YIKES!  I double your :hairraiser: and raise you  I think that's how it goes. Blech!! |
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Post by Dbaby on Jul 25, 2003 11:17:34 GMT -5
If we think about all the places tongues might have been.... YIKES! Oh YUCK! I never thought of that! |
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Post by Elvis84 on Jul 25, 2003 11:27:26 GMT -5
That's nothing compared to this: ****** — The most amazing thing about 18-year-old Marcos Parra's story is that he is alive to tell it. Just a few months ago, Parra's car was hit by a drunk driver and his head was almost completely severed from his body, with only his spinal cord keeping it connected. Parra barely recalls what happened. "I just remembered hearing someone screaming," Parra told Good Morning America. "They said it was my friend but I can't tell you because I wasn't there 100 percent." Parra was rushed from the scene to the emergency room at St. Joseph's Hospital in Phoenix. Doctors had never seen such injuries. It almost didn't matter that he had a broken clavicle, pelvis, tailbone and ribs. They were stunned to learn of the injury to his neck that technically ripped off his head. His skull was ripped from the cervical spine, detaching Parra's head from the neck. A Hollywood Moment At that point, it seemed only a miracle could save Parra. But that is essentially what he got in the form of Dr. Curtis Dickman of the Barrow Neurologic Institute at St. Joseph's. What happened in that Phoenix hospital seemed like something straight out of Hollywood. "Most people with this injury die at the scene of the accident because it requires very severe and violent forces to create this type of injury," Dickman said. No one can say if it was luck or destiny, but it so happens that Dickman had been perfecting a technique to treat an injury as rare as Parra's. The surgeon had been testing the method on human cadavers. The young man ended up being the first person in the world to undergo the experimental surgery that saved his life. Before undergoing the surgery, Parra summoned the pastor of his church to the hospital. "It was one of the nurses that called me who said you need to come to the hospital immediately. I said is there something wrong? She said 'no, Marcos won't let us perform surgery on him until you come pray for him,' " said Arthur Tafoya, pastor of the Glendale Apostolic Church. The spinal cord and arteries had not been damaged, making Parra an excellent candidate for Dickman's technique, which makes use of two surgical screws. Turn of the Screw Surgeons delicately inserted the screws through the back of Marcos' neck to reconnect the first vertebrae to the base of the skull. This pulled the severed bones back into position. A piece of Marcos' pelvis was used to patch his neck and skull together. "What distinguishes this technique from the other techniques available is that it preserves the majority of motion in the neck," Dickman said. "And when the motion is lost, it's disabling." After the surgery, it was a long and difficult recovery period. Parra spent four months wearing a halo-brace to help his neck heal and went through hundreds of hours of rehabilitation. He is now back on the basketball court and loving every minute of his life. "I'm here to enjoy life," Parra said. "This is nothing. I could be in bed or in a wheelchair, contained in a wheelchair for the rest of my life. Or not be here, be dead. This ain't nothing, I'm walking. After everything I went through, this is a walk in the park for me right now, thank God." ****** Taken from -abclocal.go.com/ktrk/news/12103_nat_teenhead.html |
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Post by Lynnie on Jul 25, 2003 11:29:40 GMT -5
Wow! Thank God for his life!!! You're right. Nothing can top this.
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Post by Ivory Fair on Jul 25, 2003 11:54:24 GMT -5
Did you all know that polar bear hair isn't really white but clear? I don't know how I know that but I do.  |
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Post by Elvis84 on Jul 25, 2003 12:05:01 GMT -5
Another thing i heard is that scientists counted the stars in sky. Only those witch are visible to us at night. And the result is: ~22 sextillion (10 + 21 zeros) ! 10 000 000 000 000 000 000 000  |
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