My mother....Oh, if you could hear her.
Recently, my mother has taken a great interest in my health. I have epilepsy. For the last 15 years, since I was diagnosed, she took no interest. Never asked questions or learned about it.
I finally got her to go to the Epilepsy Foundation website and research it. She did. Now, 15 years later, she is determined to find out *why*. As all my docs noted, they have no reason, which is the same reason they give 70% of people with epilepsy.
My mother watches A & E alot. (or maybe it is Discovery...where they show people being operated on.) She calls and leaves a rambling message on tape worm and seizures. My husband took the message, shook his head the asked why it takes her so long to get to the point.
I called her back. On the TV show, a woman went to Mexico, ate a taco off a street vendor and started having seizures a few months later. After much investigation it was determined that she had tape worm larvae in her brain. They did surgery and now she is fine. They believe she got the tape worm from the street vendor in Mexico.
Why would she care? She called to tell me that since I went to Mexico (20 years ago...note the timeline) I might have tape worm growing in my head. I advised I had numerous MRIs over the years and there are no larvae in my head.
"Well, that just proves you should not travel to all these god forsaken countries...who needs to pick up a disease or something when you can stay home?" Can't argue with that logic, huh?
She then tells me of another episode where a man went swimming in a dirty river (real smart) and as he was peeing in the water a tiny bug swam into his penis. The bug of course multiplied and *ate his insides out...even his semen ducts...he might not be able to father children."
I advised I don't usually go swimming in dirty rivers and when I do I make it a point to not pee into the water.
Mother--"Well, that proves you should not pee into the water you are swimming in."
Again, who can fault that logic?
BTW, if anyone wants to adopt a 64 year old JW female, house broken (for the most part), I'll see about having the papers drawn up...
Seriously, are all older JWs like this? Will she get worse? She is so flakey I think I was switched at birth in the hospital. I cannot be this woman's daughter.