Woman Has An Annoying Runny Nose During Allergy Season...Oops It Was a brain leak that was causing her to lose a half liter of cerebrospinal fluid every day
BF NEWS – Kendra Jackson, who lives in Omaha, Nebraska, went to see a nasal health specialist because she had a perpetually runny nose.
Jackson was in a serious car collision five years ago. In 2013, a woman hit Jackson’s parked van, throwing her face-first into the steering wheel and breaking her shoulder in two places. She needed two surgeries, underwent physical therapy for an entire year, and started having migraine headaches.
But two and half years after the collision, her symptoms started to change and worsen. While she’d had some nasal symptoms — a bit like a small cold or minor sinus problems — clear liquid started to run from her nose.
It got so bad that she was using three to four boxes of tissues a week, and had to carry them with her everywhere. But the symptoms were particularly bad at night.
“When I would wake up in the morning and I would sit up, it was like a waterfall,” she said. Her pillows, nightgown, and bed sheets were soaked with fluid.
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Jackson visited multiple doctors, including a specialist, but the diagnoses and treatments didn’t seem to help.
…It turns out she had cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leaking from her nose.
Having a human body is the fucking worst. What’s the point? What’s the upside? There’s just always something fucking wrong with it. Always. And if there’s not something specifically wrong with it there’s the fear that something is about to be horribly wrong with it at any second. The eyes are part of that body and those eyes read things constantly about all the terrible and disgusting and horribly, excruciatingly painful things happening to other people’s bodies. Could be you any day now!
Like Kendra Jackson for example. Kendra had a runny nose. A runny nose! I’ve had a runny nose for 14 months straight. I go through a box of Kleenex a week at my desk, and I don’t masturbate at my desk. I’ve got a tissue in every pocket of every item of clothing I wear that has a pocket. Always just assumed I was getting over a cold or I had bad allergies. You know, normal afflictions millions of people have every day. Now I guess it’s a possibility there’s a leak in my brain dripping cerebrospinal fluid out of my nostrils? Every morning I wake up with large sections of my hippocampus missing? Cool! Love science!
I mean I guess sex feels good sometimes. Massages are nice. Those head scratchy things with the wires sticking out that get right down to your scalp are great. But the opportunity cost of having a body that runs the risk of dripping brains out of your face “like a waterfall” is just really, really bad. Not for me.
PS,
Not to dredge up the comment section but kind of have to agree with Natalie here.
