My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard, and they’re like OH MY GOD WHY IS THE CAT DEAD???
Missing a “decades later” on the last two
The prognosis is 6 months. There is one person who was diagnosed and lived for 10 years after, but that’s the one known case
Depends on the prion, but you’re also talking about prognosis after diagnosis - I don’t imagine most people are diagnosed soon after contracting it, and symptoms take time to appear.
Same for ALS btw, Hawkings is the exception. Typical is 1-2 years
yeah, iirc there are early-onset and late-onset as variants, and most common is late-onset with the life expectancy you named
how does prion disease taste?
Like milkshake.
Any idea what flavor? Strawberry, chocolate, Vanilla or something like Mountain Dew Code Red?
Kuru-y
so it tastes like chicken! Which would be fine, if it weren’t a shake. (I had the unpleasant experience of having to eat a pureed high-protein diet for a few weeks. Pureed chicken sucks.)
You had to puree your regular food or were you put on a high protein soft diet?
the latter, i had bariatric surgery a few years back. After nearly 4 decades of being massively overweight (mental health said “EAT”, i claw myself back, repeat) i surrendered and put myself under the knife. worked out fine and i can hold my weight now too, but the pureed chicken sucked.
