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New take – Complete the story with one or more tasty addictions, just for fun?

  • Posted on January 4, 2011 at 4:21 pm

As the other entries, won both by Silva, complete the story in a cooperative fashion, adding one addition after the other one. Wins the tastiest, better addition.

Once upon a time, there was a master dollmaker, old and alone. When he was younger, he built toys and dolls for all the children of his town, then for the children of those children, and for their nephews and nieces. However, now he was old, really old, and without no one to care with him.

So, he built a mechanical doll. She was a lifesized doll, with skin of bone china, painted lips, eyes and cheeks, with a cherubic, kind expression, and the ageless apperance of a young lady, a ballerina, down to the simple white dress and the ballerina slippers. A complex, hidden, and enchanted mechanism gave her the ability to move freely, and to think a little by herself. She was able to silently care for her “father” (having a painted face, and being a doll, she couldn’t even speak to him), and sometimes ventured out of her place to shop for groceries. Being a doll, she couldn’t feel emotion, but, somehow, she felt uneasy being surrounded by fleshy people, and always came back home in no time. She had no passions, not even something she liked: however, due to her mechanical nature, she felt “drawn” to order and neatness. And even without knowing what love was, she deeply cared for her father, as daughter would be for her aging father.

One day, however, his father “broke”. To her, he seemed just broken. He didn’t move anymore, he didn’t speak to her. The doll stayed at his side for some days, then, without nothing else to do, went away.

No one suspected she was a mere doll, they just thought she had gone silent and weird by grieving, and being all alone for so many time, so no one paid attention to her.

One day the ballerina doll, after winding up her gears, saw a group of ballet dancers, performing in public. She felt drawn to that group of girls, moving almost as exactly and neatly as she could, and tried to dance with them.

The other girls, and the public, were amazed, impressed by her ability, and, after the show, the girls brought the unknown ballerina in white behind the scenes to converse a bit with her…

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Complete Information on Choroideremia

  • Posted on January 15, 2010 at 9:20 am

Choroideremia is an uncommon inherited disorder that causes liberal departure of imagination payable to degeneration of the choroid and retina. Choroideremia is a X-linked recessive retinal degenerative disease. It occurs nearly solely in males. In childhood, night blindness is the almost popular best symptom. As the disease progresses, there is departure of imagination, often starting as an improper gang that gradually expands both in toward key imagination and out toward the utmost fringe. In childhood, night blindness is the almost popular best symptom. There is departure of incidental or side imagination.

Choroideremia is genetically passed through families by the X-linked form of heritage. In this character of heritage, the gene for the disease is located on the X chromosome. Females have two X chromosomes and can transport the disease gene on one of their X chromosomes. Because they have a robust edition of the gene on their new X chromosome, carrier females typically are not affected by X-linked diseases such as juvenile retinoschisis. Sometimes, however, when carrier females are examined, the retina shows insignificant signs of the disease. Males have simply one X chromosome and are thus genetically vulnerable to X-linked diseases.

Males cannot be carriers of X-linked diseases. Males affected with a X-linked disease ever give the gene on the X chromosome to their daughters, who so get carriers. Affected males never give a X-linked disease gene to their sons because fathers give the Y chromosome to their sons. Female carriers have a 50 percentage opportunity of passing the X-linked disease gene to their daughters, who get carriers, and a 50 percentage opportunity of passing the gene to their sons, who are so affected by the disease. Choroideraemia is diagnosed with a combination of ophthalmic testing, visual area examination, and electroretinography.

Unfortunately, no treatment is presently available. Investigators are now developing a gene therapy for evaluation in animal studies. Personal, educational and vocational counseling, as well as adaptive training skills, job placement and income assistance, are available through community resources. Antioxidant vitamin supplement as needed; regular intake of dietary omega-3 very-long-chain fatty acids, including docosahexaenoic acid; cataract surgery as needed for posterior subcapsular cataract; low vision services as needed; counseling as needed to help cope with depression.

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Complete Information on Emery-dreifuss Muscular Dystrophy With Treatment and Prevention

  • Posted on January 3, 2010 at 4:27 am

Emery-Dreifuss sinewy dystrophy is an uncommon and genetically heterogeneous disorder. The leading reason of mortality and morbidity in emery dreifuss sinewy dystrophy is cardiac disease, which is consistently existing. It usually begins in childhood or adolescence. In general the condition is less severe than many other forms of muscular dystrophy and though life expectancy may be shortened, many affected individuals can expect to reach middle age or older. Almost all people with Emery dreifuss muscular dystrophy have heart problems by adulthood. In many cases, these heart problems stem from abnormalities of the electrical signals that control the heartbeat and abnormal heart rhythms. The disorders affect different muscles and have different ages of onset, severity and inheritance patterns.

Onset is normally in the teenage years, but the circumstance can submit with neonatal hypotonia or through the third decade. Patients typically produce failing of peroneal muscles with toe-walking recently in the best decade or in the earlier teenage years. Among the earliest features of this disorder are joint deformities called contractures, which restrict the movement of certain joints. Contractures become noticeable in early childhood and most often involve the elbows, ankles, and neck. The condition is inherited and can therefore affect other family members. In many families it is inherited as a X linked trait and therefore only affects males and is carried by unaffected females. All the sons of an affected male will be unaffected but all his daughters will be carriers. Most affected individuals also experience slowly progressive muscle weakness and wasting, beginning in muscles of the upper arms and lower legs and progressing to muscles in the shoulders and hips.

No particular handling for emery dreifuss sinewy dystrophy exists. Aggressive positive maintenance is vital to maintain muscle action, to offer for maximal utilitarian power, and to extend living expectancy. However, having a sufficient diet and maintaining better general health are really significant as in all sinewy dystrophies. Females who carry one altered copy of the EMD gene usually do not experience the muscle weakness and wasting that are characteristic of this condition. In some cases, however, they may experience heart problems associated with this disorder. Orthopedic surgery may be needed to correct or prevent contractures and to increase range of motion. Regular gentle exercise, which is tolerated without causing stress, is beneficial. But hard physical exercise should be avoided. Antithromboembolic drugs are probably required to prevent cerebral thromboembolism of cardiac origin.

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