The itch you can't scratch
Monday June 30, 2008
Categories: Varia
For a hemi-demi-semi-Monk-like compulsive like me, Atul Gawande's much-discussed New Yorker piece on the science of itching is ultrafreaky. Consider this passage, about a woman who had shingles on her forehead, which left her skin numb ... except for an...
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Actually, the whole article (all 7+ pages) was really neat. I enjoyed it.
Although, scratching through to your brain...it sounds like a horror story told at a slumber party. Yuck!!
I'm skeptical. I've watched neurosurgery many times and it takes more than a fingernail to get through the skull.
Yeah, what Florence said goes double for me (except the actual watching part). Maybe the lady got a belt sander or something out of the garage in her sleep. What? It could happen!
Let this be a hoax....
Is it really possible to scratch through your SKULL? Maybe. But where, how, and wouldn't the offending finger be all but shredded?
Wow, that sounds like Twilight Zone or Tales from the Crypt or something.
I have been haunted by this story. Why didn't this woman start going to bed wearing a sports helmet and mittens before scratching through to her brain?
Did you hear the one about the guy who gets slipped a date-rape drug by a foxy chick, only to wake up in a tub full of ice with his kidney missing?
I'm waiting for MythBusters to follow up on that one.
Well ... at least she finally got to the ultimate source of the itching sensation.
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