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Epilepsy Is Dancing -- Antony & The Johnsons

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New Trail

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Brain - The Hippocampus - Epilepsy by Anthony Catalano

Epilepsy - I an seizure prone most likely because of some scaring from birth within this area of the brain: The Hippocampus. I had a number of high-resolution MRIs done at NYU.

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* by Инес Масуки ...🚭

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Epilepsy.

Epilepsy by Jeff Brady

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the third and final form of this very personal piece...

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Sorry that I am 1 day late.

'Epilepsy Awareness Day' today March 26th. It's Purple Day

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Thank you for your kind visit. Have a wonderful and beautiful day! ❤️❤️❤️

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Epilepsy by Jeremy Marshall

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HDR from 5 handheld exposures- I took this a while ago, and hated it so I never uploaded it; however, the more I see it, the more ive come to appreciate it for the disgusting mess that it is.

A sun bear with epilepsy looking sad by Takashi Nakajima

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This sun bear at a zoo in Hokkaido has epilepsy. There is a note in front of the cage that says the bear started having seizures, and the veterinarian is considering whether to give him medicine.

His name is "Umekichi" and has a tragic story. He began living with a female bear in 2015, and the fights between them caused the female's death. The zoo was accused of mishandling the situation.

札幌、円山動物園のマレーグマ、ウメキチ。

B10K998 by Dean Denby

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Epilepsy is dancing... by Undocumentarian

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Sticky head by Meagan Goodnight

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I hate having stuff stuck in my hair. Every year I have to get an EEG done due to epilepsy.

Purple Day - Image 2 by Sharon Wills

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Getting ready for Purple Day - Helping raise awareness of epilepsy. 26th March!

Taken at Botanic Gardens, Adelaide, South Australia

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Don't run passed it if you're epileptic!

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Watercolor

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Epilepsy Poster by Andrew Power

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I'm not liking this so much anymore. XD

I Have Issues by tappit_01

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A very sweet chihuahua that unfortunately has some...issues. The first of which is perhaps the fact that she's wearing a dress.

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Found floor markings at Artomatic 2009 in Washington DC.

Jean Paqui in Le Capitan (1946) by Truus, Bob & Jan too!

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French postcard by Ciné-Selection. Photo: Ancrenaz. Jean Paqui as Le Captitan in Le Capitan/The Captain (Robert Vernay, 1946).

Le Capitan/The Captain (Robert Vernay, 1946) was one of the popular Sword and Dagger films (or Swashbucklers) made in France in the years after the Second World War. It was produced by the Compagnie Franco Coloniale Cinématographique (CFCC). To promote the film, a series of wonderful postcards was published by A.N. in Paris. The pictures for the cards are atmospheric portraits of the main actors in character, shot by the Parisian photographer and cinematographer Pierre Ancrenaz.

Le Capitan/The Captain stars Pierre Renoir as the Duke of Angoulême, and Claude Génia as his daughter Gisèle d’Angoulême, and Jean Pâqui as Le Capitan. Co-stars are Sophie Desmarets as Marion Delorme, Huguette Duflos as Marie de Medici, Aimé Clairiond as Concino Concini, and Lise Delamare as his wife, Léonore Caligaï. Other cast members were Jean Tissier as Cogelin, Maurice Escande as Le prince de Condé, Alexandre Rignault as Rinaldo, and Serge Emrich as the young Louis XIII. The script for the film was written by director Robert Vernay himself and was based on a novel by Michel Zévaco.

Le Capitan is the nickname of young Adhémar de Capestang (Jean Pâqui). In 1616 he arrives in Paris looking for fortune. He falls in love with beautiful Gisele d’Angouleme. Her father, though, is messed up in a conspiracy against the young king Louis XIII (Serge Emrich). Marshall Concino Concini (Aimé Clariond) wants to keep the power that his lover, queen-mother Marie de Médicis (Huguette Duflos), gave to him. The Captain fights the conspiracy and defends the young king. At the end, Concini is killed.

Concini and his wife, Leonora Dori Galigai, really existed. Galigai was a favourite of Maria de Medici. When Maria became queen consort of Henry IV, Leonora followed her to France. After the death of Henry IV in 1610, Maria became regent of France. Galigai managed to lift her husband Concino Concini (who may have had a say in Henry IV's murder) to the rank of Marshall of France and he supposedly became the Queen's lover. Because of her epilepsy, Galigai was believed to be possessed. The superstitious Queen hired her for exorcism and white magic and paid her huge sums. Galigai earned extra by bribing anyone who wanted access to the Queen. Galigai and Concini practically ruled France, favoriting the Tuscan nobility and weakening the power of French nobility. In 1617 the young king Louis XIII and his aids overthrew the rule of Maria de Medici, murdered Concini, while Leonora Galigai was accused of witchcraft. She was publicly beheaded and burned to the stake.

In 1960 a popular remake of the film would be made by André Hunebelle, also titled Le Capitan/The Captain. The film starred Jean Marais as Le Capitan, Bourvil as Cogolin and Elsa Martinelli as Gisèle. Lise Delamare was again in the cast, now as Marie de Médicis.

Source: IMDb.

And, please check out our blog European Film Star Postcards.

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Students conduct groundbreaking research in epilepsy and other diseases.

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Epilepsy (sometimes referred to as a seizure disorder) is a common chronic neurological condition that is characterized by recurrent unprovoked epileptic seizures. It affects approximately 50 million people worldwide.It is usually controlled, but not cured, with medication – although surgery may be considered in difficult cases.

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This image is taken from United States Naval Medical Bulletin Vol. 23, Nos. 1-6, 1925 by Medical Heritage Library, Inc.

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Title: United States Naval Medical Bulletin Vol. 23, Nos. 1-6, 1925

Creator: U.S. Navy. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery

Publisher:

Sponsor:

Contributor:

Date: 1925-07

Language: eng

Table of Contents

Number 1

PREFACE---------------------------------------------------------- V

NOTICE TO SERVICE CONTRIBUTORS---------------------------- VI

SPECIAL ARTICLES :

SINUS INFECTIONS.

By Lieut. Commander C. B. Camerer, Medical Corps, United States Navy

----------------- 1

TUBERCULOSIS OF THE SEMINAL TRACT.

By Lieut. (J. G.) E. M. Harris, jr., Medical Corps, United States

Navy___________________ 10

EPILEPSY AS A PROTEIN SENSITIZATION DISEASE.

By Lieut. Commander L. H. Roddis, Medical Corps, United States

Navy_____________________ 15

WHAT IS A NORMAL HEART?-THE POINT OF VIEW OF A MEDICAL EXAMINER.

By Lieut. (J. G.) F. K. Soukup, Medical Corps, United States

Navy___________ 18

CLINICAL NOTES :

LEPROSY AT THE UNITED STATES NAVAL HOSPITAL, GREAT LAKES,

ILLINOIS-REPORT OF A CASE.

By Lieut. Commander P. Richmond, jr., Medical Corps, United States Navy

______________ 25

CEREBRAL ABCESS OF UNDETERMINED ETIOLOGY-CASE REPORT.

By Lieut. (J. G.) L. D. Carson, Medical Corps, United States Navy

----------------------------------------- ---- 28

FRACTURES OF THE HEAD OF THE RADIUS-WITH A REPORT OF FOUR CASES.

By Lieut. W. S. Leavenworth, Medical Corps, United States Navy

-------------------------------- 32

FOUR POINT METHOD OF LOCAL ANESTHESIA FOR HEMORRHOIDECTOMY.

By Lieut. Commander L. H. Williams, Medical Corps, United States Navy

------------·- - - - -------- 34

AN ATYPICAL CASE OF SERUM SICKNESS.

By Lieut. Commander J. T. Boone, Medical Corps, United States

Navy_______________ 36

A CONSIDERATION OF VARICOCELE.

By Lieut. (J. G.) J. L. Thornton, Medical Corps, United States Navy

_________________________ 39

GOLD BALL IMPLANTATION AFTER REMOVAL OF THE EYEBALL.

By Lieut. A. H. Cecha, Medical Corps, United States Navy_____ 40

MUMPS WITH CEREBRAL COMPLICATI0NS, REPORT OF A CASE.

By Lieut. F. D. Walker, Medical Corps, United States Navy____ 42

MUMPS-A FEW REMARKS ON TREATMENT.

By Lieut. H. L. Fougerousse, Medical Corps, United States Navy_ 43

NOTES AND COMMENTS: Page

Special announcement---------------------------------------- 45

NA VY NURSE CORPS:

THE SPIRIT OF NURSING.

By Mary M. Roberts, R. N------------------------------- 47

BOOK NOTICES :_______________________________________________ 55

PREVENTIVE MEDICINE, STATISTCS:

COMMENT ON CERTAIN FEATURES OF MEDICAL PROPHYLAXIS AS APPLIED AT

PRESENT FOR THE PREVENTION OF VENEREAL DISEASES IN THE NAVY-----

------·--------------------------------------------- 65

BACILLARY DYSENTERY AT THE UNITED STATES NAVAL HOSPITAL, CANACAO, P.

I., REPORT OF AN OUTBREAKOF.

By Commander H. W. Smith, Medical Corps, United States Navy

----------------------------- 74

COMMENT ON EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MATTERS FROM THE SANITARY REPORT OF THE

UNITED STATES NAVAL STATION, OLONGAPO, P. I., FOR 1924.

By Lieut. T. E. Cox, Medical Corps, United States Navy______ 75

Three cases of scarlet fever, regarded as milk borne, reported from the

Marine Barracks at Quantico, Va.-Laboratory procedures now employed by the

Health Department of New York City in connection with prevention and control of

typhoid fever-Outbreak of food poisoning due to contamination of

cream-filler in a bakery-Statistics relative to mental and physical

qualifications of recruits-United States Naval Training Station, Great Lakes,

Ill.-Health of the Navy______ ____ 79

Number 2

PREFACE---------------------------------------v

NOTICE TO SERVICE CONTRIBUTORS __________________________ vi

SPECIAL ARTICLES :

TREATMENT OF ACUTE LOBAR PNEUMONIA.

By Lieut. J. E. Miller, Medical Corps, United States Navy _____ 89

SECONDARY NEUROSYPHILIB IN THE NAVY.

By Erasmo Ehrenfreund, Royal Italian Navy ________________ 96

SPRUE-WITH REPORT OF A CASE.

By Lieut. (Junior Grade) W. A. Hornaday, Medical Corps, United States

Navy ____________ 106

TREATMENT FOR WARTS OF THE FOOT.

By Lieut. (Junior Grade) J. Markey, Medical Corps, United States Navy

_______________111

HEADACHES.

By Lieut. (Junior Grade) H. E. List, Medical Corps, United States Navy

------- 114

VERTIGO.

By Lieut. (Junior Grade) G. C. Main, Medical Corps, United States

Navy __________________ 120

CLINICAL NOTES:

DEATH FROM CHRONIC MERCURY POISONING FOLLOWING ANTILUETIC

TREATMENT-REPORT OF A CASE.

By Lieut. (Junior Grade) C. D. Middlestadt, Medical Corps, United

States Navy ------------------ 125

MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS-CASE REPORT.

By Lieut. (Junior Grade) L. D. Carson, Medical Corps, United States

Navy ______________ 130

ACUTE INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION COMPLICATING CHRONIC PULMONARY

TUBERCULOSIS-CASE REPORT.

By Lieut. (Junior Grade) A. L. Aldrich, Medical Corps, United States

Navy ------------------------------ 137

CAVERNOUS SINUS THROMBOSIS FOLLOWING SUBMUCOUS RESECTION CASE REPORT.

By Lieut. (Junior Grade) J. L. Emenhiser, Medical Corps, United States

Navy ____________141

SYPHILIS, RECENT PROGRESS IN THE TREATMENT OF.

By Lieut. (Junior Grade) B. C. Shearer, Medical Corps, United States

Navy ------------ 144

NURSE CORPS:

HOW PSYCHOLOGY MAY HELP THE NURSE.

By Mary Chadwick ------------------------ 149

THE SOUL OF THE NURSE --------- 153

BOOK NOTICES ------------- - - - - 155

PREVENTIVE MEDICINE, STATISTICS:

STUDY OF PROBABLE FOOD REQUIREMENTS OF NAVAL AVIATION PERSONNEL

UNDERTAKING EXPLORATION OF THE AREA

ABOUT THE NORTH POLE.

By Lieut. Commander J. R. Phelps, Medical Corps, United States Navy

----------------------·-------159

OUTBREAK OF FOOD POISONING CAUSED BY SMOKED TONGUE CONTAMINATED WITH A

BACILLUS OF THE MEAT-POISONING GROUP.

By Lieut. Commander A. J. Toulon, Medical Corps, United States Navy

--------------------------- 171

Outbreak of influenza on board the U. S. S. West Virginia in April,

1925, Report of-Question relative to cowpox virus and method of

vaccinating-Standard form for requesting pathological examination of tissues at

the United States Naval Medical school-Statistics relative to mental and

physical qualifications of recruits – Admissions for injuries and poisoning,

February, 1925-Health of the Navy-Vital statistics _________________ 175

Numbers 3-4

PREF ACE---------------------------------------------------------- V

NOTICE TO SERVICE CONTRIBUTORS__________ VI

SPECIAL ARTICLES:

REPORT OF LEAD POISONINGAM ONG OXYACETYLENE WELDERS IN THE SCRAPPING OF

NAVAL VESSELS.

By Lieut. Commander E. W. Brown, Medical Corps, United States Navy

--------------------------- 187

COMBINED METHODS OF TREATING MALIGNANT DISEASE.

By Lieut. Commander L. W. Johnson, Medical Corps, United States Navy

------------------------------- 218

CLINICAL NOTES:

YEAST CELL INFECTION IN MAN-REPORT OF CASE.

By Lieut. J. E. Miller, Medical Corps, United States Navy. 229

PROVOCATIVE REACTIONS IN PRIMARY SYPHILIS.

By Lieut. (.Junior Grade) G. F. Cooper, Medical Corps, United States

Navy__________________ 236

HOOKWORM DISEASE IN NAVY RECRUITS – ITS DlAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT.

By Lieuts. O. Wildman and N. S. Betts, Medical Corps, United States

Navy ------------------------- 241

A NEW BEDSIDE TREATMENT AND DRESSING TRAY.

By Lieut. Commander P. R. Stalnaker, Medical Corps, United

States Navy_____________________________ 248

OBSERVATIONS ON THE ANNUAL PHYSICAL EXAMINATIONS AT NAVAL OPERATING

BASE, HAMPTON ROADS, VA.

By Lieut. Commanders M. E. Higgins, F. Ceres, aud Lieut. O. Wildman,

Medical Corps, United States Navy________________ 253

A CASE OF MASKED APPENDICITIS.

By Lieut. (Junior Grade) J. F. Hays, Medical Corps, United States Navy

----------------------------- 255

NOTES AND COMMENTS:

The United States Veterans' Bureau Medical Bulletin.-Some advances of

chemotherapy.-Guarding the health of our President- Care of narcotics in the

Navy.-Early days on the Isthmus.-The questionnaire form of report.-United

States Pharmacopoeia, Tenth.-Sanocrysin _________________________ 259

NAVY NURSE CORPS:

FROM HAREM TO HOSPITAL IN EMANCIPATED TURKEY.

By Chief Nurse M. H. Bethel, United States Navy____ _________ 277

MARIA ROBERTO__ _________ 281

MARIA ROBERTO-A FURTHER TRIBUTE.

By Chief Nurse E. Brooke, United States Navy________________ 283

BOOK NOTICES---------------------------------- 285

PREVENTIVE MEDICINE, STATISTICS:

Analysis of data relating to arsenical compounds used in the treatment

of syphilis in the Navy from December 1, 1924, to July 1, 1925.-Hamburg steak

as a potential vehicle for bacilli of the meat-poisoning group.--Three cases of

food poisoning attributed to eating freshly-caught fish-yellow jacks.-New York

State Department of Health sponsors lecture series on sex education and social

hygiene.-Venereal disease lecture conducted for male employees of the Atlanta,

Birmingham & Atlantic Railway Co.-Failure, temporarily, to sterilize mess

gear, a possible factor leading to increase in the prevalence of acute

respiratory diseases at the United States Naval Training Station, Newport, R.

I., in March, 1925.-Commander of Scouting Fleet comments on insanitary methods

of washing officers' mess gear.-Nomenclature titles to be used in cases where

teeth are extracted because of focal infection.-Facts to be

noted on the back of the Form F card in cases of sunburn attributed to

inadequate protection by prescribed uniform.-Statistics relative to mental and

physical qualifications of recruits.- Admissions for injuries and poisoning, April,

1925. Health of the Navy.-Vital statistics--------------- --- ------ 291

Number 5

PREFACE ------------------------------------ V

NOTICE TO SERVICE CONTRIBUTORS---------------------------- VI

SPECIAL ARTICLES:

THE VITAL CAPACITY TEST.

By Lieut. D. Ferguson, Medical Corps, United States Navy____ 329

EXPEDITING THE DIAGNOSIS OF SYPHILIS BY THE EMPLOYMENT OF THE KAHN

PRECIPITATION TEST.

By Lieut. J. E. Houghton, Medical Corps, United States Navy__ 347

SURGERY OF THE BLADDER.

By Commander W. S. Pugh, Medical Corps, United States Navy

(retired)------------------------------- 354

SURGICAL TREATMENT OF SUPPURATIVE OTITIS MEDIA IN CHILDREN.

By former Commander G. B. Trible, Medical Corps, United States Navy

--------------------------------------- 362

CENTERS OF ENDEMIC AND PREVALENT DISEASE IN CHINA.

By Lieut. H. E. Coe, Medical Corps, United States Naval Reserve

Force---------- ----------------------- 368

CLINICAL NOTES:

USE OF CHLORINE GAS AT THE NAVAL TRAINING STATION, HAMPTON ROADS, VA.

By Lieut. Commander W. C. Espach and Lieut. O. Wildman, Medical Corps,

United States Navy______ 373

PILONIDAL SINUS.

By Lieut. (Junior Grade) W. A. Strauss, Medical Corps, United States

Navy ------------------------- 376

POLIOENCEPHALITIS OR ACUTE INFERIOR ENCEPHALITIS.

By Lieut. (Junior Grade) C. D. Middlestadt, Medical Corps, United

States Navy ------------------ 379

ULCERATIVE COLITIS.

By Lieut. (Junior Grade) H. M. Weber, Medical Corps, United States Navy

------- ---------------- 384

BLOOD TRANSFUSION.

By Lieut. (Junior Grade) J. L. Thornton, Medical Corps, United States

Navy --------------------- 387

NOTES AND COMMENTS:

The Red Cross roll call.-The origin of cancer.-Cancer and the

sun.-Surgical treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis.-Seasickness.- Treatment of

Wassermann-fast syphilitics with bismuth. Sterilization

of water with tincture of iodine___________________ 391

NURSE CORPS:

VALUE OF NAVAL HOSPITAL LIBRARIES.

By Isabel DuBois, Director of Libraries, Bureau of Navigation, Navy

Department------------------- 403

TREATMENT BY PHYSIOTHERAPY.

By Chief Nurse Frida Krook, United States Navy, and Nurse Mary M. Heck,

United States Navy----- -- 406

BOOK NOTICES---------------------------------------------------- 409

PREVENTIVE MEDICINE AND STATISTICS :

Care of measles patients in cold weather.-Functional nervous disorders

as observed in industrial and mercantile establishments. Extracts from the

annual sanitary report of the United States naval training station, Hampton

Roads, Va.-Comment by the fleet surgeon, United States Asiatic Fleet, regarding

conditions affecting incidence of the venereal diseases in that fleet.-Health

Department of Detroit reduces period of isolation for scarlet fever. Statistics

relative to mental and physical qualifications of recruits.- Admissions for

injuries and poisoning, May, 1925________ 415

Number 6

PREFACE -------------------------------------- v

NOTICE TO SERVICE CONTRIBUTORS----------------------------- v1

SPECIAL ARTICLES :

THE UNITED STATES PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE IN WAR TIME.

By Assistant Surgeon General A. M. Stimson, United States Public Health

Service-- ---------- 445

TWO YEARS' STUDY OF DYSENTERY IN HAITI.

By Lieutenant P. F. Dickens, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy________ 452

INFLAMMATION OF THE BONE.

By Lieutenant (J. G.) H. W. Gillen, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy__ 465

RED CELL SEDIMENTATION TEST.

By Lieutenant (J. G.) O. R. Nees, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy___ 471

THE VIENNA CLINICS.

By Lieutenant C. W. Lane, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy__________ 477

MORALE AND MEDICAL CARE OF DEPENDENTS.

By Lieutenant Commander L. H. Williams, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy--

--------------- --- ------------- 483

CLINICAL NOTES:

CORONARY OCCLUSION-REPORT OF CASES.

By Lieutenant Commander G. F. Clark, Medical Corps, U. S.

Navy------------------------------- 487

DEEP THERAPY TREATMENT OF INTRA-THORACIC NEOPLASMS,

By Lieutenant J. W. Smith, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy_________ 491

LIVER ABSCESS.

By Lieutenant A. L. Lindall, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy_________ 494

PAROXYSMAL HEMOGLOBINURIA.

By Lieutenant Commander W. H. Connor, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy -----------

- --------------- 501

OSTEITIS DEFORMANS,

By Lieutenant (J. G.) H. E. List, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy____ 504

NOTES AND COMMENTS:

Especially meritorious articles, 1924--Tannic acid in the treatment of

burns- Hyposulphite of sodium in treatment of mercury-fast and arsenic-fast

syphilitics-Lungs and war gases-Dressing for fractured ribs-Hard water vs.

distilled water-Graduate medical study in New York- Laboratory work as a

specialty-Course in aviation medicine--American College of Surgeons

________________ 507

NURSE CORPS:

Letter of commendation-The Mackinac disaster_ __________________ 517

BOOK NOTICES ------- --------------------- - --------------------- - -

521

PREVENTIVE MEDICINE, STATISTICS:

Report of board appointed by the Secretary of the Navy to study the

venereal disease problems of the Navy- Health of the Navy_______ 527

INDEX:_______________________________________________ I

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Christina Nichole On 3/13/2010, Following Police Brutality At Aberdeen WA ER by PeekabooPuppies7

Our disabled daughter, Christina Nichole, was physically and mentally abused by a doctor and police officer at the Gray's Harbor County Hospital in Aberdeen WA last Thursday, March 11, 2010, while she was there after being transported by ambulance to seek care for a 10-day severe headache and nearly continuous epileptic seizures. She just spent a week in Harborview Hospital receiving her 3rd brain study and medicine change by Dr. Wilensky throughout her life so far, which again diagnosed the many types of seizures she has. Dr. Wilensky's staff had advised her to call 911 to go to the ER, which she did. She was instructed to have the ER doctor call them, with a number they gave Christina, and to make arrangements to have her flown to Harborview, if needed. The ER doctor apparently did not like that, and told Christina to leave, without any work-up or care. Christina requested a different doctor and a patient's advocate. In response the non-caring doctor called the police to have her removed from the ER. The policeman told her to get out of the bed, and she tried to cooperate, but went into a seizure, falling back on the bed. The policeman grabbed her arm, pulling her out of the bed. In the process he damaged her shoulder and neck, and caused her to land on her feet which have both been recently operated on 3 times and are still trying to heal correctly. Her feet were hurt and damaged and she screamed in pain from the abusive, sedistic, arm pulling which resulted in trauma to the arm, shoulder, and neck, as well as her feet. Then she felt nauseaous and reached toward to the wall dispenser for a vomit bag and the policeman forcefully hit her other arm with his fist, not allowing her to get the bag. She again screamed from the new pain of her other arm being hit so hard. She kept falling down because she was still very much disoriented, confused, and unstable from her seizure(s) and the relentless headache, which had been diagnosed a few days earlier when she was taken by ambulance to the same ER for the same reasons, by had a caring doctor who treated her correctly, even though failing to follow standard procedures of care and testing by not taking a cat scan, blood work, or UA, which her family doctor, local neurologist, and Harborview Epilepsy Center had requested when advising her to go to the emergency room, four days in a row while my husband and I were in Seattle where I had surgery at Swedish Hospital leaving home on Monday and returning Thursday night. The policeman continued man-handling her limp body and threw her into a wheelchair without leg and foot rests. He told her to pick up her feet because they were dragging under the wheelchair backwards, but she had no body control to be able to follow his orders. He said she could let her feet drag behind her under the wheelchair because he did not care. He called her a baby and told her act her age when she cried and was terrorized. Her records show clearly that she was in a coma in 2004, declared brain dead, somehow came back but lost 20 years of memory and has daily short-term memory loss and multiple kinds of seizures, including life-threatening grandmal seizures. She looks like a 37 year old woman, but is very much like a 12 year old child when put in stressful situations. She was terrified, feared for her life, and could not understand anything clearly. The officer told her to leave the hospital, go out into the cold, rainy night, with no transportation. She asked to call her parents but could not understand how to operate the pay phone or remember our cell phone numbers. The policeman told her that no one wanted to talk to her so she was on her own and if she did not leave the hospital he was going to arrest her. She somehow left a message on our home phone. As soon as my husband heard the message he called the hospital and told them to keep her there and safe until he could drive the 25 miles to get there. During the wait the policeman intimidated Christina by standing behind her, jingling coins and keys, and threatening her to leave immediately or be arrested. When my husband arrived the policeman attempted to intimidate him by puffing himself up and threatening to arrest them both if they did not leave immediately. My husband took out his notebook and began collecting names and titles. He spoke with the head nurse. When finished he took Christina to our car and brought her home. She was emotionally damaged as much as she was physically damaged, and the brain swelling, headache, and seizures were not treated. The next morning deep bruise marks were showing on both arms and both feet. Her shoulder and neck were in tremendous pain. Her entire body hurt from the abuse, mishandling, torture, and trauma she had experienced. My husband drove her to Olympia WA, to the Capital Mall Hospital emergency room where she received kind and caring evaluation of all her injuries. The staff consulted with the doctor at Harborview Epilepsy Center and they determined an appropriate course of treatment. It was determined that she did not have to be airlifted to Harborview with this treatment plan being provided in this ER. X-rays and a Cat Scan were taken of her brain, arms, and feet. A suspicious spot was found on the Cat Scan that may explain why she was having so many seizures, headache, and brain swelling. It needs to be further evaluated, which she has an appointment with her Neurologist to do. The injuries inflicted by the policeman are severe, but no bones were broken. The bruising is massive and was documented with photographs and medical records by us and the Olympia ER staff. On Saturday my husband took Christina to the local Westport Fire Station to meet with the ambulance crew. Christina is well-known in Westport and everyone on the ambulance crews knows her medical history and has taken care of her dozens of times since we moved here after her coma. They call her their 'miracle girl' and always tell her how much they enjoy her and her always cooperative and happy nature, regardless of how much pain or distress she may be in at any time. The ambulance crew was devastated to learn that Christina was abused by the doctor, nurses, aids, and policeman at the emergency room they took her to on Thursday evening. They documented everything and reported the situation to the local city police department. The Westport police came and was equally upset. He took statements and then called a County Sheriff to the fire station. The Sheriff also took statements and made a report. On Monday (today), 3/15/2010, Christina was seen and evaluated by her family physician, Dr. Jackson, her foot surgeon, Dr. Tronvig, and her Chiropractor, Dr. Failor. They are all shocked and disgusted at what they saw. They all know Christina to be a sweet, trusting, loving child who has survived unimaginable odds and is always happy and thankful. Like us, they cannot fathom how this horrible abuse, neglect, and trauma could have happened to her. Why would anyone want to hurt her this way? Tomorrow she has an appointment to see Dr. Miller, her local Neurologist in Aberdeen. He will do his evaluation of the damages and follow-up on her seizure and headache conditions. He will determine if she needs to begin phychological counseling, either as an out-patient or as an in-patient, because Christina is so severely traumatized now. Coming out of the coma knowing that her doctors fought with us to try to get us to sign papers to allow them to euthanize her and harvest anything viable when she was in her locked-in coma, hearing everything but unable to respond was bad enough, but this added to that is simply too much. She has an appointment to see Dr. Wilensky at Harborview Epileptic Center on March 26, 2010 for further evaluation. I want to stress that Christina was following her doctor's orders to call the ambulance each time she went to the ER while my husband and I were away. Her doctors called her each day, several times a day, to ask how she was doing and to supervise her care while she was home alone. At no time was she seeking 'drugs', as the ER doctor flattly told her and labeled her. At no time did she resist the officer or do anything to warrent him putting his hands on her or drag her feet under the wheelchair. Dr. Wilensky called a prescription of pain pills into the pharmacy for her on Friday to take for her head pain, but she declined to pick up the prescription because she does not like to take pain pills as they make her very sick to her stomach and alter her thinking and feelings. She may take what is prescribed to her at an ER for pain while she is there, but does not want to take it at home. Her foot doctor says that her feet will heal, but her foot surgery recovery has been set back by at least another two weeks due to the damages the officer caused her. The bruises will eventually heal and the pain from them will fade away with time. Her shoulder and neck injuries will heal with the care of the Chiropractor. But Christina's trust in the emergency room at Aberdeen and the police there has been shattered and can never be repaired. The Westport ambulance crew said that they will take her to Willapa Hospital ER from now on, which is about twice the distance, but they no longer trust the Gray's Harbor Hospital ER to take appropriate care of Christina again. When my husband or I take her to an ER, we will make the long drive to Olympia and never let her out of our sight for even a minute. We retained an attorney today to handle this case against the Gray's Harbor Hospital and staff and the Aberdeen Police Dept. and officer. What amazing timing. We are scheduled to give our first depositions this week in Seattle in our lawsuit against Eli Lilly who makes Zyprexa, which put Christina into her coma in 2004. Attached are some photos of Christina's bruises taken on Saturday. If you haven't read the story of her coma yet, you can find it at: pekingeseshihtzu.wordpress.com/christina-nichole%e2%80%99...

MRI scan showing the location of intrathalamic electrodes implanted in the brain for the treatment of epilepsy by eLife - the journal

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Original research article can be found at dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.05352

Emily by Amy Frushour Kelly

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EEG by Caroline Casey Photography

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Epilepsy neural modeling by Argonne National Laboratory

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Argonne computer scientist Mark Hereld presents a visualization of a computer simulation of neuronal activity in a brain afflicted by epilepsy.

Stroll for Epilepsy - Heroes Alliance Ohio 015 by foodbyfax

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P5114760 by Pete Riches

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"The Hardest Hit" March & Parliamentary Lobby - 11.05.2011

Part (1) The Prelude to the March

Between 8,000 and 10,000 disabled people with long-term conditions, their families, carers and many trade union supporters assembled on London's Victoria Embankment to protest against the punitive cuts to welfare spending implimented by David Cameron's "Caring Conservatives", which are specifically aimed at the sick and the disabled. Using French IT company ATOS Origin to do the government's dirtiest work, the disabled are being summoned to "Work Capability Assessments" at ATOS Regional offices up and down the country, and are then subjected to a twenty minute examination by often medically unqualified staff who ask a series of questions and then try fill in tick boxes on their completely inflexible computerised forms, which are inadequate for coping with the very serious complexities which go with long-term disabilities. These accumulated scores then form that disabled person's Work Capability score. Input from Doctors, Carers and Senior Consultants is not allowed to be considered when going through this sham exercise designed to force people off Disablity benefits and mobility allowances - crucial to many working disabled people, many of whom have had to stop work because they cannot get there any more thanks to this incompetent process. Instead they become trapped in their homes, unable to shop for themselves or socialise.

The ATOS assessors are paid a bounty of around £70 for every person they instruct the Department of Work and Pensions to be thrown off their benefits, and those assessors with medical qualifications are instructed by the government when they sign contracts to do assessment work with ATOS that the normal medical code of conduct regarding their innate responsibility for the well-being of the patient is waived!

Since the introduction of this punitive and intensely cruel process several disabled people have committed suicide, having had their support ripped away from them, with many disabled people becoming homeless. There are also many instances where people with terminal illnesses have been told they are fit for work, their benefits stopped, and have died within weeks in absolute abject misery because the State has treated them monstrously.

Many previously independent disabled people in their own homes have had to be institutionalised in homes run by private comanies who are egging the government forward because they make a huge profit from running these homes. The sickest irony is that it costs around £10,000 per year to keep a disabled person living in their own home, independent and contributing to society, yet it costs the taxpayer between £30/40,000 to put them in a care home where they may be neglected or even worse abused.

Assaults and threats against the disabled has increased sharply over the last year as a direct result of the government's insulting press campaigns which have painted the sick and disabled as workshy scroungers. Nothing could be further from the truth, but as long as those in power have the ability to behave so appallingly towards the very weakest and most vulnerable members of our society just to score cheap political points, then that is what an increasing number of people in this country want to believe.

In December of last year Iain Duncan Smith, the minister for Work and Pensions, said of the disabled in Rupert Murcoch's Sun Newspaper interview:

"It embarrasses me. I think this is the greatest country on earth.

“What I cannot bear is the idea that this country was the workshop of the world. It gave everybody the free market, the industrial revolution. You think what we did to change the world. This was the place that everyone looked to.

“Yet we have managed to create a block of people in Britain who do not add anything to the greatness of this country.

“They have become conditioned to be users of services, not providers of money. This is a huge part of the reason we have this massive deficit. We have had to borrow vast sums of money. We went on this inflated spending spree."

Ever since that statement by Iain Duncan Smith the Sun, the Daily Express and the Telegraph have run continual lie-filled campaigns in their pages stating that around 75% of the disabled are fully able to work but because they are little more than complaining parasites who just want to sit at home enjoying themselves at "Our" expense. The rapid consequence of this disgusting, immoral slur which could be easily mistaken for the propaganda campaigns of the National Socialist Party in pre-war Germany.

Because the government has picked on the Disabled first, they are getting away with it. Most people in this country are unable to even begin to understand what it is like living with a severe disability. Most people in this country are too stupid and dull to have the intelligence to question what they are being told to think by the right-wing press who serve the Global Capitalists hiding 'round the curtain waiting to get the nod to start taking over huge parts of our National Health Service using the appalling American model which is all about profit and not about the patient's actual needs.

This is what David Cameron has planned for Great Britain, and he's starting with the disabled because disability makes most people uncomfortable because they're so self-obsessed and shallow that human empathy is too rich an emotion for them to grasp. Instead they are turning against the disabled, and talking to many disabled people it is very clear that a lot of them are now living in a climate of fear, hounded by bullies in their local communities, taunted in the streets, often physically abused or spat at, their homes broken into, their meagre possessions stolen.

And all this human misery because David Cameron's Conservatives will not punish the banks and hedge funds which caused the recession which has wrecked our economy, and he will not close down the corporate tax loopholes, shut down the tax havens and start throwing corrupt, greedy financiers in prison where they belong. All this human pain because Conservatives think that the State should stop providing services cheaply and reasonably efficiently, and instead services should be run by completely unaccountable private comanies whose only masters are the shareholders. This is all about profit, nothing else. profit at the expense of human pain and fear.

On appeal following an ATOS assessment around 70% of people win their cases, proving how incompetent ATOS' system is, but the cruellest part is that an appeal can take a year, during which that disabled person's mental and physical health has deteriorated. Many are driven to desperation and suicidal thinking. The government is just about to make it much, much harder to appeal against an ATOS decision by making it impossible to get any form of Legal Aid which would pay for a solicitor armed with the Law to represent you. It seems unbelievably wicked and cruel to me.

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Epilepsy Awareness Day by Janet 59

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Epilepsy Monitoring Unit by Spectrum Health