17-yo Girl Must Process Brain Fluid Inside Her Belly to Survive

17 - yo Melissa Peacock is not a zombi . Or at least she looks like a pretty sound zombie . To go , Melissa must work on her own mentality fluid inside her belly .

you may see how it works in this characterisation : A vacuum tube connects her psyche to her peritoneal caries , carrying the fluid through her body . Yes , the tube itself is permanently embedded inside her because , she says , a previous external electron tube impart her with huge blisters on her back . Before that , eight operations had fail to recover the correct answer . Once in her abdomen , the body sue the liquidness , absorbing it through the lymph and vascular systems .

While imbibe your own brain fluid sounds gross , hemicrania , blurred sight , and sure death sound a peck worse . That ’s why she does n’t care :

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My ally suppose the fact that I abide fluid from my brain is a bit weird — but my quality of life is so much better since I had the shunt put in place , I do n’t worry . It mat up like I was always trying to see through a steamed - up windowpane . Sometimes I ’d have almost no vision at all .

Melissa has suffer from intracranial hypertension since she was nine . The high blood pressure is caused when the torso ca n’t drain spinal fluid out of the skull , which ensue in a pressure build up that crush your own brain . The stipulation can be fatal if not regale . [ Daily Mail ]

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