Maybe RFK Jr.’s brain worm was just a wandering atrophied ear worm. I suffered with that “Rent” melody parody of Georgia’s 11,780 votes as an ear worm for two solid weeks. 😱
Independent US presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr believed he may have been attacked by a worm that ate part of his brain and then died inside his head...Kennedy, 70, made the claim in a 2012 deposition as part of his divorce from his second wife, according to the New York Times, which said the scion of the storied political clan reported severe memory loss and mental fog."
Really, really torn about Sideshow Bob and brain worms because parasitic brain infections are an actual thing that happens to decent people around the world, and when it happens to them it is tragic.
Much tougher to feel sorry for a person so totally lacking in compassion, who is a threat to our country, and who may or may not have even really experienced this. Who knows what the hell is going on with that guy?
NYT reports RFK Jr. had previously undisclosed health issues, including a parasite in his brain. “I have cognitive problems, clearly,” #RFKJr. said in the 2012 deposition. “I have short-term memory loss, and I have longer-term memory loss that affects me.” https://nytimes.com/2024/05/08/us/rfk-jr-brain-health-memory-loss.html
In 2010, #RFKJr was experiencing #memory loss & #mental fogginess so severe that a friend grew concerned he might have a #brain tumor. #Kennedy said he consulted several of the country’s top neurologists, many of whom had either treated or spoken to his uncle, Senator Edward M. Kennedy, before his death the previous yr of brain cancer.
Several drs noticed a dark spot on the younger Kennedy’s brain scans & concluded that he had a tumor, he said in a 2012 #deposition reviewed by NYT.
#RFKJr was immediately scheduled for a procedure at Duke Medical Center by the same surgeon who had operated on his uncle….
While packing for the trip, he said, he received a call from a doctor at NY-Presbyterian Hospital who had a different opinion: #Kennedy, he believed, had a dead #parasite in his head.
The doctor believed that the abnormality seen on his scans “was caused by a worm that got into my #brain & ate a portion of it & then died,” Kennedy said in the #deposition.
#RFKJr has gone to lengths to appear hale, skiing w/a pro snowboarder & w/an Olympic gold medalist….A camera crew was at his side while he lifted weights, shirtless, at an outdoor gym in Venice Beach.🙄
For decades, #Kennedy suffered from #AtrialFibrillation, a heartbeat abnormality that increases the risk of #stroke or #HeartFailure. He has been hospitalized ≥4X, although in an interview… this winter, he said he had not had an incident in >a decade & believed the condition had “disappeared.”
About the same time he learned of the parasite, #RFKJr said, he was also diagnosed w/ #MercuryPoisoning, most likely from ingesting too much fish containing the dangerous heavy metal, which can cause serious #neurological issues.
“I have #cognitive problems, clearly,” #Kennedy said in the 2012 #deposition. “I have short-term #memory loss, AND I have longer-term memory loss that affects me.”