Spoilers Ahoy

Yup, I'm back, at least for now. Thanks for your concern, friends. I'll try to get caught up with everyone soon and hope to get back to posting more regularly.

My neurosurgeons are going to be on Discovery Health Channel's Mystery Diagnosis, presenting the case of a 12-year-old girl with some of the same issues as I have (retroflexed odonotid and Chiari).

I guess that kind of ruins the ending for you, but so does the website's episode blurb, so you'll deal. Besides, the title of "mystery" is a pretty dubious one: the episodes I've seen before had diagnoses that I could guess within the first few minutes. If *I* (whose science background consists of high school bio/chem/physics and lots of Googling) knew that the kid in the first ep had Cushing's within a minute, I have to wonder what was wrong with her previous doctors who were so flummoxed. But, as I know first-hand, this long journey for a diagnosis that shouldn't be that difficult is unfortunately quite common. The show is all about the happy endings, but I wish they'd take a stand by depicting a case in which the outcome was negatively affected by the lack of or misdiagnoses prior to the patient's receiving proper care.

But, you should watch. If not because my stuff is inherently interesting, then because my docs are pretty freakin' funny, and hopefully this will come across in the editing. It airs at 9pm on Friday (and then will be repeated a billion times over the weekend, as DHC is wont to do). Note: DHC is NOT the same as the Discovery Channel. Many people get Discovery but not DHC. This is very sad, because DHC is the best thing ever, even with their incredibly sensationalistic and exploitative specials.