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attorney, very, very knowledgeable man, all kinds of things going on legal wise all over the country,
all over the country, especially some particular questionable things in North Carolina.
And again, and the fact that Donald Trump just called Samuel Alito, you got him a speed dial.
Just for a little friendly chat. I'm sure it's all fine. They're not making any deals. Nothing to
see here. Jane, really quick question for you. What are you doing for your birthday?
Because it's Jane's birthday, everybody. It is. I'm going to go give blood.
You're just going to give it away. I'm just going to give it away. Man, I usually sell mine.
I'm like, is it in the parking lot of a pick and save? You have inspired me because you are,
I mean it because you are a regular blood donor. You can do it every six weeks.
No, every eight. So if you're donating whole blood, you can do it every eight weeks.
If you're doing dual red, which is what I usually do, or you're giving plasmids every 16 weeks.
Okay. But it's something easily done easily done easily done.
Varsity has locations all over the place. Yes. We're in Racine. I'm going to hit the
Varsity right off of Highway 20 here in my way home. And it's something you can do. It doesn't take
that long. Consider it if you've never done it and consider doing it regularly. My goal is to be
as regular as you are. And I want to get like a pin. I don't know. I've never gotten a pin.
I've been donating it for a long time. I should get on at least a couple. But that's probably do.
It's neither here nor there. But the point is is something that a person at Varsity once told me.
They said, if every person who is available, an eligible could give once a year, they'd never
have a shortage ever again. Think about that. Think about that. You can spare. You can spare a couple
of hours a year to give blood. I know you might be scared of needles. You'll be fine. They'll
literally hold your hand if you tell them. Absolutely. But come and come in when I go in,
we can do a race and see who fills out the bag first. And we're going to try to get Varsity back
on the show to talk about all the things they have going on. The things they need. The always
need blood also talking about organ tissue donation as well. So very, very important. Thank you,
Jane, for doing that. And thank you for inspiring me. 1154 Kelvin. That means it is time for this
shouldn't be a thing. As always, if you have a thing, you think should not be, send it into
Greg and me. At Jane says at civic media. US. This from the independent headline reads,
woman addicted to eating her own hair has giant hairball with tail moved from her stomach.
I wish I could see Calvin's face right now. 38 year old woman
suffering from nausea vomiting and an extremely swollen abdomen when she arrived at a hospital
in the US. She'd suffered dramatic weight loss, lost 15 pounds over eight months after she
lost her appetite. The unnamed woman rushed into surgery where a giant hairball was found
lodged in her digestive tract with a small tail of hair trailing into her intestines. And a second
hairball nestled deeper in her bowel. She suffers from Rapunzel syndrome.
That doesn't make sense to me. It's called trickotidio mania. Okay, understood. That's a very long
word trickotidio mania. Otherwise known as Rapunzel syndrome has only been documented 88 times.
88 times in medical literature. So this is very, very rare. It's a disorder that causes a patient
to develop an irresistible urge to pull out their own hair and then ingest it.
Named after the Rapunzel from the grim brother's fairy tale, it's extremely uncommon,
but it can cause potentially deadly side effects. As the hair gets lodged in the stomach,
typical symptoms include nausea vomiting, altered bowel habits, abdominal distension and weight loss.
Surgeons removed it from the woman she was released. After six days in the hospital,
some recommendations that she seek therapy. Oh, yes, absolutely. And I don't want to, you know,
this is, this is unfortunate. It's a very rare condition. Yeah, it's a very rare condition.
And we're not making, honestly, we're not making fun of her for having a condition, but
this shouldn't be it. This shouldn't be a thing that affects people. But also, I just think that
it's poorly named Rapunzel syndrome because and this might be a difference between like what
you grew up listening to or watching versus the Grims tails, which are vastly different and very
dark, very dark. The originals are, read them to your kids. Yeah. But I don't believe that Rapunzel
correct me if I'm wrong. Anybody? I don't think Rapunzel ate her hair in the story, but she said
really long hair. She had really long hair, which was used as a ladder. Correct. So I guess it
would be more accurate if those women had really long hair and she was trying to climb it. She,
Rapunzel syndrome is when you are, you are trapped in a tower and you haven't need to grow your hair
and use it as a, as a viable escape tool. All right, that, that wraps up today's episode of
this shouldn't be a thing. We have news coming up next followed by Todd, all the from noon to two
Maggie, Dawn, two to four, Dom, Salvia, four to six, Peach Schwabba lightning,
things up with night light. And then tomorrow morning, we kick it off all over again with Pat
Critello up north news radio from six to eight and Earl Ingram from eight to 10 a.m.
right before we begin. Thank you Greg and Calvin and all of our engineers without you,
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means the world. I hope you find some joy today and you have the chance to share it.
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