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Top 10 Health Stories of ‘08 19 Top 10 Health Stories of ‘08 19 Top 10 Incredible she remained hooked on a ventilator as the kidney condition was overjoyed when he Top 10 Incredible Health Stories of 2008 possibility of organ donation was discussed. survived the procedure. Jodie Percival of Health Stories of 2008 Surprisingly, Thomas woke up 10 minutes later Nottinghamshire, England, said she made the and started talking. She was then transferred to decision to abort baby Finley when she was By Marrecca Fiore and Karlie Pouliot the Cleveland Clinic so that specialists could eight weeks pregnant. Percival's first son died of check her out, but doctors said they could find multicystic dysplastic kidneys and her second Fox News nothing wrong with her. “I know God has child Lewis was born with serious kidney something in store for me, another purpose,” damage. A short time after the abortion, Percival Thomas said. “I don’t know what it is, but I’m felt a fluttering in her stomach. She went to the sure he’ll tell me.” doctor for a scan and discovered she was 19 weeks pregnant. "I couldn't believe it,” Percival 7. Next is a story about a 49-year-old Japanese said. "This was the baby I thought I'd man who was suffering from abdominal pain in terminated.” Finley was born three weeks late May. Surgeons in Japan thought they were premature - but is expected to lead a normal life. going to remove a tumor from the man – but instead found a 25-year-old surgical towel that had crumpled into what looked like a softball- shaped tumor. The patient apparently had been carrying the cloth since 1983, when surgeons left it in him after minor ulcer surgery. 6. In November, a coroner in Britain determined that a 12-year-old boy died after using too much 10. The story of Jessica Cox, of Tucson, Ariz. spray deodorant in a confined space. Daniel She was born without arms, but that has only Hurley collapsed in a January after spraying on stopped her from doing one thing: using the Lynx deodorant – made by Unilever, a global word "can't." Her latest project is becoming the company that manufactures Axe, Suave and first pilot licensed to fly using only her feet. other deodorants in the U.S. -- in the bathroom With one foot manning the controls and the of his Derbyshire home. His father said the boy other delicately guiding the steering column, was obsessed with grooming, often applying 2. It’s not a tumor … it’s a worm. Doctors Cox, 25, soared to achieve a Sport Pilot lots of deodorant and cologne. An inquest was thought a Phoenix-area woman might have a certificate. Her certificate qualifies her to fly a told that a "volatile" agent in the deodorant brain tumor, but it turned out there was light-sport aircraft to altitudes of 10,000 feet. upset the boy's heart rhythm. He was something else penetrating her brain – a worm. "She's a good pilot. She's rock solid," said hospitalized and died five days later from a Rosemary Alvarez started experiencing Parrish Traweek, 42, the flying instructor at San cardiac arrhythmia. numbness in her arm and blurred vision. She Manuel's Ray Blair Airport. went to the emergency room twice and had a CT scan, but everything came up clear. It wasn’t 9. An Australian man was operated on in June at until doctors took a closer look at an MRI that Hornsby Hospital in Berowra, where surgeons they discovered something very disturbing. removed 16 stainless steel washers from "down Alvarez was wheeled into surgery where under.” Fire Rescue officers in New South doctors were expecting to remove a tumor, but Wales, Australia were called to alleviate the they uncovered the worm instead, which they man from his awkward predicament around 3 removed. No one knows exactly where she a.m. It was not clear how he got into the picked up the worm – but doctors said worms predicament – but fire rescue officers spent can come from eating undercooked pork or can more than an hour trying unsuccessfully to be spread by people who don’t wash their hands remove the washers. He was eventually taken to after using the bathroom. the hospital where surgeons removed the washers using fire brigade equipment. A 1. All I wanted was a leg op. Our biggest health hospital spokesman said equipment normally clicker of 2008 was about a German retiree who used to remove rings from fingers was 5. The story of baby Lali. Born in New Delhi, took a hospital to court after she went in for a ineffective because of the thicker nature of the India, she has two faces, with two noses, two leg operation and got a new anus instead. The washers. pairs of lips and two pairs of eyes. She ate and woman had been mixed up with another patient drank out of both mouths. She was born on suffering from incontinence. That patient was March 11 in a northern Indian village, where scheduled to have surgery on her sphincter. As a she is still living and said to be doing well. result, the clinic in Hochfranken, Bavaria, suspended the surgical team. [] 4. In June, this story grabbed tons of attention with the headline: The New Club Drug: MORE ‘X’ TRIVIA.... Preparation H? That’s right. The topical hemorrhoid medication reportedly is catching - Only 48% of the sun’s energy actually reaches fire as the latest "drug" to hit the New York City the Earth. club scene. The solution contains a medication - On target: When a male camel spits at called phenylephrine HCL, which shrinks the something, it’s aiming for the eyes. swollen tissues of hemorrhoids. It works by - The Pacific Ocean covers more of the Earth’s constricting the nearby blood vessels that surface than all of the continents combined. surround the area. But the ingredient will shrink - If you’re 6 feet tall or taller, you’re too tall to other tissue as well. At the time, a New York become an astronaut. 8. Doctors called her a medical miracle. In May, bouncer said men are slathering up their torsos - One in five Americans cannot say which Val Thomas suffered two heart attacks and had with the hemorrhoid cream to make themselves President is on the $1 bill without looking. no brain waves for more than 17 hours. Rigor look "ripped." - Lingerie facts: According to a garment mortis started to set in, and she was placed on a industry study, 75% of women wear the wrong respiratory machine. Her family said their 3. A mother who decided to abort her son size bra. goodbyes and Thomas’ tubes were removed, but because he may have inherited a life-threatening More ‘X’ TRIVIA to come!