My Sunday and always looking for something a bit unusual, at least for me to post about to keep the conversation going.

Today I found a couple of health stories that I think my readers would like……

Think back a year or so ago….the Ebola scare that had the world going batcrap crazy….more recently it is the Zika virus….but what could possibly be worse than those two?

The director of the CDC says we’re close to living in a “post-antibiotic world” after an antibiotic-resistant superbug was discovered in the US for the first time last month, Reuters reports. “It basically shows us that the end of the road isn’t very far away for antibiotics,” the Washington Post quotes Tom Frieden as saying. “We may be in a situation where we have patients in our intensive-care units … for which we do not have antibiotics.” Patient zero is a 49-year-old woman in Pennsylvania with E. coli. The bacteria that infected her, while treatable with other antibiotics, had a gene—mcr-1—that is unaffected by the antibiotic colistin. Colistin is known as the last antibiotic line of defense against “nightmare bacteria.”

Researchers, who published their findings Thursday, fear the mcr-1 gene could be passed on to other bacteria that aren’t treatable with other antibiotics. If that happens, the Post states that “routine operations could become deadly; minor infections could become life-threatening crises.” NBC News reports the Pennsylvania woman hadn’t traveled anywhere in five months, so it seems the bacteria had been hiding undetected in the US. It’s previously been found in Europe, China, Canada, and South America.

Seems there is always something in the health that will scare the crap out of the population……

And then there is this story….my daughter is a zombie freak….she is always looking for the start of the apocalypse….so to give her something else to worry about I showed her this story……

Worry about your health at times? Well, at least you don’t believe you have no body parts, blood, or organs, or consider yourself dead or immortal. Yet those are among the beliefs plaguing people with Cotard’s syndrome, an illness discovered in 1880 that’s extremely rare and awful when it strikes, Medical Daily reports. In case you doubt it, there are two studies (here and here) that found a .57% and .62% rate of Cotard’s, respectively, in large groups of psychiatric patients. Researchers say the condition—also known as “walking corpse syndrome”—often begins with severe depression and a health anxiety that can inspire odd complaints. One 28-year-old woman, for instance, told hospital staff that her stomach was missing and her liver was “putrefying.” The report on her case notes that the syndrome generally affects those in middle-age or later years, but when young people are diagnosed, they are overwhelmingly (90%) female.

Over time, patients may believe they don’t exist or lack body parts, which can trigger a slew of problems including poor hygiene, self-harm, and a refusal to eat. “There was no point in eating because I was dead,” a sufferer identified as Graham told New Scientist in 2013. He was the first Cotard’s patient to get a brain scan, and a neurologist likened the brain function the scan showed to “that of someone during anesthesia or sleep.” Experts say antidepressants and antipsychotics can help, along with shock therapy, which may explain the low rate of Cotard’s today. Drugs and psychotherapy worked so well for Graham that he was able to live on his own. “I don’t feel that brain-dead anymore,” he says. “Things just feel a bit bizarre sometimes.”

After a few four letter words directed at her old Dad….she went to WebMD …..she wanted the “skinny” on this disease……(I smiled devilishly)…..your children are never too old to torment….LOL  BTW, my granddaughter is getting a kick out of my tormenting her mother….she sez she has the best family…..everyone is so light hearted and likes to have fun……she’s so damn smart!

My work is complete….now I can go enjoy the rest of my Sunday….and you guys do the same….see ya tomorrow!