Late Night TV...
...totally rocks.
Ok, so mentally I think I'm still on west coast time. That and the fear of falling asleep with 'palmetto bugs' above my head. Both things keep me up 'til about 2am these days.
So I tend to watch a lot of late night TV. I'd read but I don't want to fall asleep with the light on (it'll stay on until morning) and I can set the timer on my tv to just shut off. It's not a huge issue right now since I have no real reason to get up in the morning. Typically there isn't much on after the late night guys are off. Luckily I have cable. And cable means lots of channels whose parent is Discovery Channel. I'd be so very unhappy without Discovery, TLC, Travel Channel, and my new favorite, Discovery Health. It's the latter that I'd like to discuss. I've spent 2 nights in the past week with my eyes partially covered at what I was seeing on the television.
The first show I watched was about a sweet little 2 year old who was born with the most severe case of Treacher Collins syndrome. You've seen Treacher Collins if you've seen kids or adults with what appears to be an absence of cheekbones and that their eyes were kinda sliding down their face; an abnormally small jaw; or very small ears. When this poor girl was born, she basically had eye bulges covered in skin and sort of a nose that was up between her eyes and a lower lip but a big gaping hole where there should have been a mouth. She was such a little sweetie and I just fell in love with her by the end of the show. I just really hope they keep track of her and how all her surgeries progress. I think the doctor said she'd be having surgery each year until she was in her 20s. Poor thing.
The next show was about a woman with a 200 pound tumor. Obviously the doctors were removing it and almost had to give up numerous times throughout the surgery because of her severe blood loss (over 40 units in the span of like 12 hours which is 5x the normal amount of someone in surgery). So yes, scary surgery, amazingly huge tumor, etc. My question, how does one let a tumor get to be 200 pounds. Wouldn't you think that if that tumor got near 1 pound you'd be busting you butt to get that thing removed. I missed the statistics at the beginning of the show but I'd really like to know things like how fast it grew. So apparently it's going to be discussed on Oprah on Thursday and I'm hoping it answers a few of my pending questions or I just may not be able to sleep at night and who knows what other shows I'll view. They'll only serve to keep the vicious cycle going. Medical oddities, lots of questions, no sleep, and so on.
Ok, so mentally I think I'm still on west coast time. That and the fear of falling asleep with 'palmetto bugs' above my head. Both things keep me up 'til about 2am these days.
So I tend to watch a lot of late night TV. I'd read but I don't want to fall asleep with the light on (it'll stay on until morning) and I can set the timer on my tv to just shut off. It's not a huge issue right now since I have no real reason to get up in the morning. Typically there isn't much on after the late night guys are off. Luckily I have cable. And cable means lots of channels whose parent is Discovery Channel. I'd be so very unhappy without Discovery, TLC, Travel Channel, and my new favorite, Discovery Health. It's the latter that I'd like to discuss. I've spent 2 nights in the past week with my eyes partially covered at what I was seeing on the television.
The first show I watched was about a sweet little 2 year old who was born with the most severe case of Treacher Collins syndrome. You've seen Treacher Collins if you've seen kids or adults with what appears to be an absence of cheekbones and that their eyes were kinda sliding down their face; an abnormally small jaw; or very small ears. When this poor girl was born, she basically had eye bulges covered in skin and sort of a nose that was up between her eyes and a lower lip but a big gaping hole where there should have been a mouth. She was such a little sweetie and I just fell in love with her by the end of the show. I just really hope they keep track of her and how all her surgeries progress. I think the doctor said she'd be having surgery each year until she was in her 20s. Poor thing.
The next show was about a woman with a 200 pound tumor. Obviously the doctors were removing it and almost had to give up numerous times throughout the surgery because of her severe blood loss (over 40 units in the span of like 12 hours which is 5x the normal amount of someone in surgery). So yes, scary surgery, amazingly huge tumor, etc. My question, how does one let a tumor get to be 200 pounds. Wouldn't you think that if that tumor got near 1 pound you'd be busting you butt to get that thing removed. I missed the statistics at the beginning of the show but I'd really like to know things like how fast it grew. So apparently it's going to be discussed on Oprah on Thursday and I'm hoping it answers a few of my pending questions or I just may not be able to sleep at night and who knows what other shows I'll view. They'll only serve to keep the vicious cycle going. Medical oddities, lots of questions, no sleep, and so on.
posted by UhLisa | 1:54 AM
6 Comments:
You have a better stomach than I do. 200 pound tumor? and you watched it be removed- i'm starting to get queasy already.
But I gotta agree with you- my fave channels are HGTV, Travel, FOOD network, TLC, Discovery, BBC America.
I could subsist on those channels alone. Who needs MTV nowadays!
Did you see Discovery Health the other night with the abnormally obese people. That one lady's leg was scary. I didn't catch what her condition was, but it surely couldn't have occurred from merely over eating.
Jackie again - apparently when the lady w/ the tumor was younger her parent's took her to the doctor and they stated that they wouldn't remove it b/c it was on her back and it was thought that since it was located near the spine there was a strong possibility of causing paralysis. Quite a run on sentence huh? Hey - do you remember in English when you needed to diagram sentences...wonder if kids still need to do that???
I'm sorry, blog spam????? That's ridiculous.
Ew. Those poor people!
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