Alright I'm sure I didn't offend anyone with my link below of Tigger from Winnie the Pooh jumping on Roy Horn (of Siegfried & Roy fame for those of you under a rock). But, I read a blurb about the guy this morning that disturbed me enough to:
a. write about it here
and b. mention I'm rooting for the guy and hope he recovers enough to live some semblance of a normal life. For the rest of us, normal would not include hanging about with 700 pound white tigers.

Anyway, this article mentioned he had a stroke and was now paralyzed on one side. Could be temporary, could be permanant. But that's not the really terrible part. The really hideously bad part....and again why am I writing about this??....is that doctors removed a quarter of his skull to ease swelling of his brain. Awful awful awful...and it gets worse. Said quarter skull is now residing in a pouch in the man's abdomen to "preserve it" so they can put it back after his brain gets better. Holy fuck batman. I think they can scrap the "the tiger was only trying to help him" bit.

My problem is this (aside from being extremely skeeved by the entire thing) when did a doctor come up with the I know! - let's store body bits inside the body to keep them fresh idea?? And wouldn't you think his fellow surgeons would think him slightly insane for such an idea? I know I sure as fuck would. Going around turning people into living kangaroo-syle tupperware containers. Although I concede that if I had to choose between that or loosing a quarter of my skull I'd be on board with that shit in a heartbeat.