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[coffeewurm]

So I'm not crazy. Looks like the getting healthier thing is an artifact of a carefully regulated diet. Good news is I have a diagnosis (sort of): hypofunctional galbladder (biliary dyskinesia). Bad news is that's gonna be a surgical intervention. Good news is it's common laproscopic day surgery with a few day recovery time and that complications

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[drabheathen]

In ten years, we're TOTALLY gonna have the option of downloading our brains into other bodies. In fact, that's what "downloading" will mean-- our kids will say, "Wait-- you downloaded MUSIC? How long did it take?" and we'll say, "Oh, you know. At the beginning, it took a couple of hours per album." and they'll look at us with horror. And then we'll say, "Wait, how old are you? Because I'm only thirty-two." And they'll say, "Oh, we're four. We're just hyperintelligent because it's the future." And we'll say, "Oh. Well. It's all right then."

I mean, Back to the Future: II has flying cars, quarter-sized expanding pizzas, and hoverboards. And that's only EIGHT years.

But for now, I guess, there's surgery. As enamorar said, may your recovery be quick.

[tcmjoe_trotsky]

Check the book "Altered Carbon".

[zenragethinker]

My mom had something like that in the fall of my junior year. She initially thought she was having a heart-attack but it turned out to be her gallbladder and she had it out.

I hope that everything goes well with your surgery. Take care...

[rollyoureyes]

Good luck with the surgery and recovery!

[alemonmoonsky]

i'm glad you will be feeling better soon. have fun being in the hospital (if you like hospitals, which i do, but i may be a rarity). that article you linked to was also interesting and highly entertaining. also: published? what type of thing? what are you working on?

[coffeewurm]

I've been looking into the effects of morphine administration on vascular facilitation of neurogenesis in mice.

[alemonmoonsky]

morphine + mousy vascular systems = more neurons in said mice (if i am thinking about this right)? how is this? it sounds cool. and furry.

[coffeewurm]

Actually, morphine decreases the number of new neurons. It also increases the size of blood vessels and we think this may a compensatory response since blood vessels are good for new neuron growth. It's all pretty early in development -- we don't know some of the biochemistry involved in neurogenesis, and there's even more we don't know about how vasculature interacts with neurogenesis. Nobody in the past had noticed that morphine pretty quickly causes an increase in blood vessel size, so we're still trying to work out where and whether that fits in with new neurons.

Things like, if you block the protein that shoots up before blood vessels increase in size, does neurogenesis go down even more? Does it go up if you infuse the protein without morphine? Time consuming and expensive experiments, but we'll get there.

[waxcherries]

i hope everything goes well. good luck.