Bedridden for 11 years, he discovered a surgery for his adrenal condition
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Re: Bedridden for 11 years, he discovered a surgery for his adrenal condition
#2Wow, that's a particularly nasty clickbaity headline. He only dropped out because of the disease that caused him to be bedridden for those 11 years.
Maybe "Student was bedridden for 11 years..." would be more accurate.
Re: Bedridden for 11 years, he discovered a surgery for his adrenal condition
#3Wow, that's a particularly nasty clickbaity headline. He only dropped out because of the disease that caused him to be bedridden for those 11 years. Maybe "Student was bedridden for 11 years..." would be more accurate.
It also doesn't give a clear picture of the full story, which is years of personal study from medical textbooks, discussions with scientists, partnering with them over years of research to figure things out, and get to a diagnosis, and then, yes, design a new surgery.
It is a good story. Just a bad headline.
Re: Bedridden for 11 years, he discovered a surgery for his adrenal condition
#4Wow, that's a particularly nasty clickbaity headline. He only dropped out because of the disease that caused him to be bedridden for those 11 years. Maybe "Student was bedridden for 11 years..." would be more accurate.
Piggybacking off of your comment, regarding click bait.
In the news where I'm at, if a 19 year old does something good, they refer to him/her as a "Teenager."
If this same 19 year old does something bad, "MAN ARRESTED FOR..."
Never understood it.
Re: Bedridden for 11 years, he discovered a surgery for his adrenal condition
#5So, is it related to adrenal fatigue which is not yet fully recognized AFAIK ? Would it help ?
Re: Bedridden for 11 years, he discovered a surgery for his adrenal condition
#6Wow, that's a particularly nasty clickbaity headline. He only dropped out because of the disease that caused him to be bedridden for those 11 years. Maybe "Student was bedridden for 11 years..." would be more accurate.
Piggybacking off of your comment, regarding click bait. In the news where I'm at, if a 19 year old does something good, they refer to him/her as a "Teenager." If this same 19 year old does something bad, "MAN ARRESTED FOR..." Never understood it.
This itches me a bit tad as well. I immediately assume the author is trying to belittle or judge the person, it's a bias or some kind of semi-conscious compensation and revenge process.
Re: Bedridden for 11 years, he discovered a surgery for his adrenal condition
#7Wow, that's a particularly nasty clickbaity headline. He only dropped out because of the disease that caused him to be bedridden for those 11 years. Maybe "Student was bedridden for 11 years..." would be more accurate.
Piggybacking off of your comment, regarding click bait. In the news where I'm at, if a 19 year old does something good, they refer to him/her as a "Teenager." If this same 19 year old does something bad, "MAN ARRESTED FOR..." Never understood it.
In our societies obsession with punishment as a means of dealing with wrongdoing it is easier to justify punishing a man than a teenager, so I think we subconciously prefer to frame it that way to justify wanting to enact punishment.
Re: Bedridden for 11 years, he discovered a surgery for his adrenal condition
#8This is an incredible story. His mom had the same undiagnosed, unfixable problem. The gist is,
> If he could cut out the medullas of his adrenal glands -- sort of like slicing into a hard-boiled egg and removing the yolk -- his health would improve.
> Eventually he recruited a surgeon from the University of Alabama-Birmingham. In September 2010 Lindsday went to the university hospital, where the doctor successfully extracted one of his adrenal medullas.
> Three weeks after the procedure, Lindsay could sit upright for three hours. By Christmas Eve, he had the strength to walk a mile to church.
> But progress was slow. In 2012, he underwent a second surgery at Washington University in St. Louis to remove the medulla from his remaining adrenal gland.
> A year later, he was well enough to fly with friends to the Bahamas. It was the first time in his life the Midwesterner had seen the ocean.
Re: Bedridden for 11 years, he discovered a surgery for his adrenal condition
#9Remarkable story. It's amazing how closed-minded "experts" can be. I suspect there are many conditions that will eventually be understood thanks to the hard work of people who approach these illnesses with the curiosity of a scientist instead of the hubris of an "expert."
Re: Bedridden for 11 years, he discovered a surgery for his adrenal condition
#10Remarkable story. It's amazing how closed-minded "experts" can be. I suspect there are many conditions that will eventually be understood thanks to the hard work of people who approach these illnesses with the curiosity of a scientist instead of the hubris of an "expert."
Unfortunately, for every "outsider" with a legitimate idea, there are hundreds more emailing designs for time machines to physicists or selling homeopathic products.