{"id":171,"date":"2008-06-27T19:06:40","date_gmt":"2008-06-27T23:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ngc2632.com\/blog\/?p=171"},"modified":"2008-06-27T19:06:40","modified_gmt":"2008-06-27T23:06:40","slug":"beware-the-itch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/reviews\/beware-the-itch\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware the Itch"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oh, yes.<\/p>\n

\"Scientists<\/p>\n

     \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Scratching is one of the sweetest gratifications of nature, and as ready at hand as any,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Montaigne wrote. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153But repentance follows too annoyingly close at its heels.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d For M., certainly, it did: the itching was so torturous, and the area so numb, that her scratching began to go through the skin. At a later office visit, her doctor found a silver-dollar-size patch of scalp where skin had been replaced by scab. M. tried bandaging her head, wearing caps to bed. But her fingernails would always find a way to her flesh, especially while she slept.
\n     One morning, after she was awakened by her bedside alarm, she sat up and, she recalled, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153this fluid came down my face, this greenish liquid.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d She pressed a square of gauze to her head and went to see her doctor again. M. showed the doctor the fluid on the dressing. The doctor looked closely at the wound. She shined a light on it and in M.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s eyes. Then she walked out of the room and called an ambulance. Only in the Emergency Department at Massachusetts General Hospital, after the doctors started swarming, and one told her she needed surgery now<\/em>, did M. learn what had happened. She had scratched through her skull during the night\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand all the way into her brain.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

From a true life story<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

9.987 zombies out of 10. Must read.<\/p>\n

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Oh, yes.      \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Scratching is one of the sweetest gratifications of nature, and as ready at hand as any,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Montaigne wrote. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153But repentance follows too annoyingly close at its heels.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d For M., certainly, it did: the itching was so torturous, and the area so numb, that her scratching began to go through the skin. At a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1rL5j-2L","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}