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ohaiyo minasen~!
Well...quick update on what's happened in the past few days.
Monday
Had my Virgin Vie cosmetic party
it was fun and there were pple who turned up
though unfortunately they weren't of much spending power so
well...didn't manage to get a discount on the stuff that I bought
but still it was all good.
I really love these virgin vie products.
The Vit C range is a definite must try.
I got the night cream and I'm ordering another bottle plus a calamity spots lotion.
Yes! I feel guilty with all this spending BUT
A girl has got to invest in her skin what more when she's aging.
And the products are really nice and thick and the Vit C range smells absolutely
Wonderful
AARGH! I don't want to grow old!
Right....
Just came out from and hour and half video session
We were watching videos on pple who had absolutely terrible neurological diseases.
Yes! it's to tie in with the Nervous System block that we are having currently.
There was a video on a musician Clive WEaring, who has permanent retrograde amnesia
aka he can't remember anything that he experienced a moment ago.
He lives in blocks of moments, he lives in the now with no past or future.
How sad...
And that was due to a Herpes Simplex virus that spread to his brain.
I found that the most amazing thing was that, although he wasn't able to remember
something that he had just done minutes ago, he was still able to play the
most wonderful choral pieces and sing them from memory.
that's because in retrograde amnesia, although immediate memory is wiped out,
memories that he had stored from long long ago were unaffected.
I think it must have been worst for his wife. Because whenever he saw her it was as though
he had never seen her for years, even though she had just left the room and returned
moments ago.
There was this guy who suffered from parkinson's who had a pallidectomy @
drilling a whole in his skull and using electrodes to destroy a small centre in his
Globus Pallidus ( part of the basal ganglia in the brain tat's involved in motor control)
It's a high precision precision with only a single mm as it's margin of error
Out of this, you basically have a paralyzed man.
So basically the surgery was to help eradicate the spasmodic and choreaic (jerky movts)
that were being brought about by the medication he was taking for parkinson's disease.
the effects were amazing, imediately after the surgery he was able to walk
almost normally without any jerky movts. It was like a miracle. I'm sure he felt it was.
The third guy suffered from complete loss of sensory info from his periphery.
He basically lost all sense of proprioception so basically, he doesn't have a
sense of 'space' i.e he can't feel his coordinates in his environment.
This is a VERY VERY rare neurological disease.
when the video was made there were only 10 pple in the entire world who suffered from that disease and that guy was the only one who was able to walk and live on his own.
And basically since he has no feedback from his sensory receptors on his position in the environment he has to will himself with all his mental strength to sit up
and walk. So if you were to remove his vision input he would basically be rendered sort of
paralyzed as his mind can't see where his body has been placed.
They were just so amazing.
It was a truly enjoyable time...and it really got us to think and be appreciative of the
normal functions that we enjoy from day to day.
And take for granted.
Thank you God for letting us lead normal and happy lives, although we are more often than not oblivious to the great gift that we enjoy...