044. Diagnosis

[vicodincrutch]

DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS

SYMPTOM(S): Uncontrollable Laughter
                          Chest Pain
                          Clumsiness
                          Which caused cranial bleeding.

POSSIBLE DIAGNOSIS:
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis--it explains the chest pains, clumsiness and the laughter. The curse is accelerating the effects the degeneration

Comments

[lying on the table, not like that]

[eiremagic]

....

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[vicodincrutch]

[Scribbles on the white board, doesn't turn around.]

I hope you know you suck at this game.

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[eiremagic]

Which one shows up in the blood? Kuru? That's the one yeh get from eatin' brains, right?

[open next to her is a huge book on diseases]

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[vicodincrutch]

All of the diseases should technically appear in the blood stream, yeah. And it isn't always brains. It's mad cow infected meat.

[Fishes out a coconut dum dum from his lab pocket. House tosses the lollipop over his shoulder, if she misses it she misses it.]

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[eiremagic]

Well. Dunno what to say 'bout that, then.

[Catch! Unwrap, suck suck suck]

Meat here's from the deities, right? And so far we kinna figure it's not a curse.

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[vicodincrutch]

Aren't you the self-named blood specialist?

[Pulls out a rootbeer dum dum for himself.]

Correct on both counts.

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[eiremagic]

Whatever this is feels like dirt.

[Sucking thoughtfully]

Well, then it's probably not anything they ate, because the deities seem intent on keepin' our lot cursed but not dead for long.

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[vicodincrutch]

Did you wash your hands?

[Turns away from the whiteboard with an ew expression.]

Unless motives change. Good point.

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[eiremagic]

You'd think I'd actually touch one?

[Makes an ew expression herself]

Nah, don' think it would. So yeh can pinpoint this shite to someone in the City.

'course that doesn' say what it is.

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[vicodincrutch]

You just get a vibe from it with your sangria senses?

[Shakes his head and thoughtfully sucks on the lollipop.]

Personally I don't think 'it feels like mud' is accurate enough to rule out Kuru. But if someone has been contaminating the food or contaminating something else to invoke Kuru...

[think think think]

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[eiremagic]

Yep.

So what are the other symptoms?

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[vicodincrutch]

Difficulty communicating--because of the laughing, clumsiness. No hallucinations. The hysteric laughing would be part of the dementia if it is Kuru.

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[eiremagic]

Huh.

[Sucks on her lollipop]

So how do you fix it?

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[vicodincrutch]

Fix CJD? There isn't a surefire quick fix. There have been modifications in the malaria vaccine to treat the symptoms but ultimately there is no cure just yet.

[Shifts sucker to the other side of his mouth.]

There have been successful short term cases with Pentosan polysulfate injections into the ventricular system.

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[eiremagic]

Hell if I'm healin' anyone.

So lets get with those injections, yeah? Only don' make me do it, that's a bad idea.

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[vicodincrutch]

I was so going to ask you. Not.

No treatment until the diagnosis is confirmed. The MRI results are being expedited.