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Tags: brain, TBI, traumatic brain injury
Cancer is a scary thing. It’s scary for those who have it, and it’s scary for those who know someone dealing with the disease. Artist Kim Myers has found a unique way to come to terms with her recent bout with cancer, one that she hopes will help other survivors and patients at the same time.
Myers’ “Cancer Killers” are brightly colored masks hand-painted with her “spirit people” reaching for sun- and moon-filled skies, or wrapped with the more haunting “dead trees.”
Each one is unique, painted depending on the emotions Myers grappled with at the moment she was inspired. Some have backgrounds of concentric circles of multiple colors, while others have solid colors or sport a two-tone look with the nose as the facial dividing line.
All utilize a paper mache technique utilizing old bed linens (for a more realistic “skin-like quality”) and are molded from the radiation treatment mask Myers, 33, wore everyday for 4 and a half weeks during her therapy for Hodgkin lymphoma. Myers also had eight chemotherapy treatments.
Read more in the NewsMiner here.
What: 'Survival Mode' open house
Who: Artist Kim Myers displays her 'Cancer Killers' masks and more
WHen: 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Saturday
Where: 3410 College Road
Information: 457-2110 or redskullstudio@yahoo.com
Read more here in the NY Times
Tags: jonstewart, dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, progressive brain disease, semantic dementia, parahippocampal gyrus
Read the New York Magazine article here.
The New York Magazine article comes on the heels of 5-year-old Alex Barton being voted out of his kindergarten classroom. Alex Barton is in the process of being diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, a type of high-functioning autism. According to his mother:
"[The teacher] took him and stood him in front of his classmates this week, asked every single child to tell Alex why we don't like him... in his words, tell Alex why we hate him," [his mother] explains.
After having each child ridicule the boy, she says the teacher continued belittling him.
"Then they had a vote on if he deserved to stay in the class or not," says Barton.
Like a twisted reality show, Barton says in a 14-2 vote, his classmates voted the five-year-old out of the classroom.
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Amid reports that Senator Ted Kennedy has a malignant brain tumor (specifically called "malignant glioma"), here are the answers to some questions you might be asking.
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