When I was 13 or 14 two teenage boys in my town were killed when they crashed their Pontiac GTO at high speed. The report from rescue workers on th scene was that one of them had spinal fluid coming out of his nose. That really creeped me out to the point where I never had the urge to speed like that, even in my first car, a used. ‘68 Buick GS 400.
This can be very dangerous. If the leakage is too much it can cause severe, severe headache. It has even been reported to result in the herniation of the brainstem....killing the patient. It sounds like a LeFort 1 fracture of the basilar. Hope she does well.
Yeah. I work in medicine and have had bit to do with things human...back in the day, we would inject radioactive isotopes into the spinal fluid at the base of the back, and take pictures of the isotope as it slowly circulated up the spinal canal and into the ventricles of the brain.
We had another exam we would do where you would manually create some radioactive eyedrops and drop them into someone’s eyes, to follow the isotope as it drained into the sinuses so you could check if the tear ducts were blocked.
We used to make radioactive eggs and toast for a patient to eat, and would take pictures over time to see how well their stomach emptied.
The worst one was making orange juice radioactive and extra acidy by adding hydrochloric acid to make sure the valve in the stomach would stay shut (if it is too acid, it won’t open and you get reflux into your esophagus.
But wait...it gets even odder-you now have the poor patient lying on their back, their stomach really full of acidy radioactive orange juice and the gamma camera that sees the radioactive isotope on top of it all looking down. To top it off, you have bound their abdomen with a large elastic corset with a blood pressure cuff between the corset and the patient’s abdomen, which you then...yes...proceed to pump up.
Pump it up 10 mmHg, take a picture. Inflate another 10 mmHg, take a picture. Keep pumping it up until you see the radioactive orange juice begin to leak the wrong way back up into the esophagus. Then you are done. It gives you an idea how the patient’s digestive systems are functioning...or not.
In my career, I did this test...just once. Once.
Worst. Test. Ever.
#ThinkExplodingYakOfRadioactiveAcidyOrangeJuiceCoveringSquareYardsPlusYourFace
Never mind the poor patient who submitted to it, I felt bad enough for them. My clothes had to spend a few days in a bag under a lead lined sink and cabinet (including underwear and shoes) and we couldn’t use the camera for days until the radioactivity died down.
I told them after I didn’t want to do any more of those tests...and they never scheduled one again!
Sorry I got off track...anyway, that was a sweet ride, your first car there.
We are lucky. Kids are just dumb kids, for the most part. Some are blessed with uncommon sense and maturity, but most of us have to bungle our way through without killing ourselves.
And some of us don’t make it.
I can see where that would creep you out...same reason they had us watch things like “Wheels of Tragedy” or some such thing to scare a little caution into you.
They did the same thing in the military. And seeing that film had a little effect on all of us, and not in a bad way. A lot of young military guys are just big kids, and prone to doing things kids would do, just on a bigger scale, which could get you killed.