I watched a doc of a woman with Chimerism and the top half of her body was hers and the other half had her twin sisters DNA and she almost lost custody of her kids because biologically her kids had her sisters DNA and not hers It was a crazy story.
If I'm remembering the correct story, I believe she was pregnant during the trial(?) and they DNA tested the newborn to discover that the DNA did not match and that was what proved the theory.
@@yuki_vang bingo that was it and it was crazy what she went through because of it. Though chimerism is often found in cats than people so it was cool to learn humans could be like that too.
Also chimera stuff is very very rare. There was a mother in the UK and her family was on benefits, but the government accused her of benefit Fraud. It turned out that her DNA did not match her kids's DNA.. Luckily, she was pregnant again, and that baby came out of her body and they did a DNA test right there, and she was the mother. She must have just had a reabsorbed twin as well... But holy crap! it tells you how dangerous this over reliance on the government, and government having such authority of our lives is, man it's dangerous...The medical right to suicide is important...but the moment the government touches it? Eugenics on the horizon =/ damn
@@krystaldispatchbetttymcgin7702 And yet they happen. There's a famous calico tomcat that could actually sire kittens. He's a chimera. They should have thought of it.
Parents often disregard their children because they think the child is making up nonsense, but they are forgetting that the children don't know how to explain things. He thinks he was abducted and what he feels in his neck is a micro chip, but he did feel something. It's just that because he described it in a certain way that made no sense or revolved around imagination, he was ignored. But chances were that he did have something in there, or there's a psychological or neurological issue causing the sensation of something being in there. LISTEN TO YOUR KIDS!
He did a titanium metal chip from a previous surgery. His brain formed delusions and hallucinations in an effort to interpret sensory input it couldn't understand. Similarly to a major mental illness the source was out of his control. Same thing happens to schizophrenic's and bipolar patients.
Not to mention the pain in his ribs. Sure, he created a reason for it being there that wasn't very logical, but he wouldn't wouldn't make up the part about it hurting
I stood on a pin once when I was really young, my mum I thought she had pulled it all out, but the pin snapped in half. I honestly didn't feel it until it moved into a uncomfortable position in my foot 6 months later. My parents didn't belive that was something still there (I'm a drama queen, still am) but took me to the minor injuries unit as they saw a little black dot appear on my foot. I had an x-ray and you could see this pin as clear as day. I had an operation to remove it four days later and in that time it had moved again so they had to get the x-ray machine down and cut me open in another place in my foot. It took the surgeons two and a half hours to find it and get it out. During the procedure they burnt the top of my foot with the lamp as they brought it closer to look into my foot so I ended up with a big blister which got infected. My parents felt so guilty bless them they brought me a hamster.
I will never understand parents who just get annoyed at their kids for strongly believing in something that’s not real and saying it is real instead of being at least a little worried and want to see why they believe it so strongly💀
@@rustyhowe3907 we like to call parents like that "lunatics". Disregard a child's imagination and then come up with an imaginary friend to pray to every night.
So you would be willing to believe your child was abducted because the kid told you ? That sounds insane and if there is literally nothing wrong with the kid, yet they keep freaking out, cutting themselves, and telling people that every 5 minutes, you’d get annoyed by it to and take them to a mental health hospital.
@@budum3 obviously there’s something wrong and they took him to the doctor. But no parent is gonna entertain bs like an alien abduction unless they’re crazy
As Dwight Schrute once said: "When my mother conceived me, she was carrying twins. But I resorbed my twin brother in the womb. Now I have the strength of an adult man and a baby.
Out of context that’s gotta be either the most confusing or the most hilarious thing to come out of a medical series. Imagine telling someone that the only way to cure a problem they have is by literally yelling at them and causing them to hallucinate. Nuts
there’s a very good actor named Clancy Brown. he’s a tall guy. i don’t think he’d appreciate that put down. ahem!! or maybe he’d just laugh at you and pat your head! 😋
@@stephenking5852 when you have a titanium pin under your skin that already causes internal pain and itching, a sharp scalpel would feel like scratching yourself with a push pin. Especially when youre hallucinating. I forgot why, but it has something to do with the "itch" receptors being held at the gate and being overridden if pain is inflicted in the same area. This is why digging a little X shape into a mosquito bite with your fingernail stops the itching.
Correlation is confirmation bias. Eg....climate change. Back then its called global warming. Statement; global warming is happening. Bias; but winter getting colder, ergo no warming Reality; summer is also getting hotter. Thus, the phrase is changed to climate change. Statement; climate change is happening. Bias; but climate is always changing. Reality; winter n summer are getting more extreme. Heck, recently theres snow in saudi...a friggin saudi got snow....
Imagine walking up to an ill and hallucinating child's parents, who have no medical knowledge, and saying "Your son isn't being abducted by aliens, he's just a chimera." with zero context.
@Ralph beans In mythology, a chimera is a creature made up of the parts of many others (a lion, goat, and snake, for example). In medical terms, a chimera is an individual being that has two sets of DNA, most often (if not solely, I'm not certain whether it has other causes) the result of one larger baby absorbing another in the womb as the fetus grows. As for the human births that display this abnormality, it's more common with babies that were conceived via IVF where multiple embryos are implanted, as opposed to natural conception.
It’s complicated though, because sometimes kids DO lie or make stories up not knowing what they’re saying or the consequences. However if your kid is constantly saying “My chest/neck hurt and there’s something in there” you _probably_ should get tests done and not just yell at the poor kid tor “bothering” _a doctor_ with his symptoms
Even with an adult having delusions, trying to argue against the delusion often makes them worse, it can lead them to think you're conspiring against them and cause them to isolate themselves further. the best coarse of action is just to be supportive of them, not in an enabling way of "oh yes the government is stalking you" but moreso an "I'm sorry you're going through this, I'm here for you if you need me" until the delusional episode starts to subside (which usually only happens in a safe and stable environment) and you can convince them to seek treatment
As someone who absorbed their twin and just ended up intersex probably unable to have children, this makes me thankful that's all that happened when we stuck together Edit: holy cow this is the most attention I've gotten on a comment I want to thank everyone for the likes, nice comments, support and the curiosity, I don't get to speak much about my lil buddy in the real world as most find it disturbing or brush me off as a form of trans rather then someone who was physically born with a minor deformity (imo) so it feels good to talk about this and help educate people about how it affects my day to day, but remember not every intersex person is the same or affected the same and we all fall on differing scales of development. Me and Tiny T wish you all a good day 🥰 and feel free to keep asking questions if you're curious I will keep answering to the best of my ability from my experiences and comfortably
I love this little moment at 7:40. It’s simply Foreman crossing his hands and leaning in as he listens to House’s explanation. That look of intrigue and fascination is exactly why he kept coming back to this job and really didn’t want to leave.
People believing they were abducted by aliens, probably had a case of sleep paralysis. I have it a few times a year and it is so scary. But now I know I'm having them, and in those 'awake nightmares' I can concentrate on moving my finger, which then wakes me up.
Cultures all over the globe equate them with a visit from a devil, we in the west due to the influence of Hollywood and popular media call it aliens, well I don't know for sure but lean on the former explanation. I heard a researcher's account, don't know if there's truth to it, that the abduction events ceased immediately upon calling out to Jesus to save you. Anyway, whether that's real or not what's more important is being certain you're going to Heaven. I have a clear gospel presentation from a trustworthy pastor, salvation is by the grace of God through faith in the only saviour Jesus Christ. He paid the full price for our admission to Heaven, we cannot work our way there, if we are trusting even one tiny part in our own works we will not get there, it's all through Christ alone. Watch and believe, salvation gives eternal life which once you receive it, will never be lost.
Years ago I stumbled into the world of chimerism through stories of parents losing their children to the state . Dna didn't match ,parents accused of kidnapping. I read everything I could find ,it was fascinating. A few months later I was dating a man introduced to his daughter and toddler granddaughter. The little girls shirt rode up a bit and exposed the child's tummy. She had the classic line down the middle with two different patterns of skin coming together. I was too scared to say anything . Regret it to this day. It's usually only discovered if there is an illness requiring blood work and dna tests . Happens way more than people think.
actually girls can have a variation in skin without chimerism, its due to the X activation (a girl has XX chromosomes) each cell only displays one of the two X chromosomes, so some regions of cells will display X1 and others X2, hence a bit of variation this has apparently also led to identical twins with one being colorblind and one not (actually I checked after that if I may be colorblind in one eye!)
fun fact: a normal human brain has around 17 different neurological activities all going on at the same time, parallel processing, just to recognize a face. Mentally, we're all chimeras - thousands of habits learned in neurons, "not conscious" but helping all the same to keep the brain and body working.
@@DeathnoteBB Yeah, but it's a TV show where they're meant to be experienced diagnosticians. If I, an english lit grad with no medical knowledge, immediately knew what the answer was then the writers need to work harder to suspend the audience's disbelief.
For all of you who think they know medicine better than the doctors watch the credits at the end of the show. House had at least 6 medical doctor consultants during the seasons it was on. For instance one was a consultant for 159 episodes. So they aren’t just making up stuff. Even if it only happened once and a doctor wrote about it.
The most unrealistic part is that it all happens in this one clinic and that this one doctors knows everything. But it's a show, that's kind of expected. They also made some highly theoretical stuff into real medical cases, but they're not completely made up.
We had a resorbed twin in my lab many years ago. It was discovered because, long story short, when the mother was having a CVS for prenatal diagnosis, the needle unbeknownst to the Dr passed right through where the twin, (which probably didn't make it passed a few weeks) was resorbed back into the placenta. We were getting two different karyotypes, male and female, and one autosomaly abnormal. Took ages to work it out.. scary thinking we had mixed up the tests... it's extremely rare.. same as finding rocking horse teeth basically !!
@@DT-ge8gd 1) it could be regional, especially since 2) I’m 22 and haven’t the foggiest idea what it means. Most I can guess is a rocking horse toy that has teeth carved into it???
@@PokeMageTech ok. You are probably a bit young !! It is basically the fact that rocking horse, yes the wooden ones... DON'T have teeth !! Obviously as they are not a real horse... so hence the "rare". The old saying means that you just wont find something or get something or whatever you want it to pertain to... it wont happen. That's all.
I was just reading something the other day about how since no one is testing for chimerism we really have no way of knowing just how common it is, but since we do know that many more pregnancies begin as twins than end as twins it's very possible that a whole lot more human chimeras are walking around than we could ever guess. There have recently been a handful of cases where people discovered they were chimeras, including one man who was not actually the biological father of his children...instead his twin brother who'd died in utero was.
Awesome job putting this episode into one small story! Love HOUSE MD been binging all seasons on last one not sure going to like ending lol! Being physically disabled doc I get board easy I find this somewhat stimulating
So this is dwight schrute from the office. Who has the strength of a grown man and a little baby. "When my mother was pregnant with me, they did an ultrasound and found she was having twins. When they did another ultrasound a few weeks later, they discovered that I had adsorbed the other fetus. Do I regret this? No, I believe his tissue has made me stronger. I now have the strength of a grown man and a little baby"
@@DeathnoteBB Fair enough, but I can add to the list if you want, phones, computers, laptops, consoles, TVs, bluetooth headsets, even grandads pacemaker.
There was a mother who lost custody of her children for a little while because the courts found her dna didn’t match her children… THE CHILDREN SHE 100% ABSOLUTELY BIRTHED!!! When the finally got the courts to test her dna again from above her waste, the results came back positive. Turns out she would have been twins, but they absorbed back into each other with the top half being twin 1 and waste down being twin 2… course, this was so early on the it’s not like they were frankensteined together or anything. It’s just that the one surviving fetus didn’t overtake the dna of the left over the extra dna.
It's amazing how something so small can hijack a body and incorporate itself into it to not only stay alive, but thrive. Forget physical threats it's what's inside that's terrifying.
I hope the kid has no memories of them traumatizing him like that I know they need it to find the other DNA but the poor kid suffering his hallucinations was sad.
House say I hope he doesn't go into hyper drive . While looking for the kid at the hospital and House talking about everything Star Wars movie quotes .
Why is it obnoxious? The kid was having seizures because of where the tissues in his brain were effected coincidentally. The seizures were what were making him hallucinate, not the fact that he was joined with his twin. It just happened to be where his twin's tissues were that were effecting him. Although its not common at all, it could happen...
@@pinkvanillakitten I meant that they acted so shocked and confused when they found out about him having two different sets of DNA. "That's impossible. 😱" It's really not all that impressive. 😅
@@theconfusedvampire Seeing as Human Chimerism affects 0.00000128982329421% of the total population of Earth, chances are not everyone has dealt with someone that has had it. So to someone that has never seen it, it would be impossible.
This episode scared me a lot as a kid, but the ending got me to believe that for most seemingly unexplainable things, there is almost always a logical explanation.
To be honest, I think what would be more novel about this case was basically how the chimerism affected the neurological component. This would turn into a test case easy simply because it would be an example of how brain patterns form in a similar way as split brain syndrome is because it almost seems like they are suggesting that his chimerism made him partly induce a split briain syndome but have interconnection with partial functions too
When I was pregnant with my youngest son I had a vague feeling I might be having twins. I didn't, but when the midwife delivered my placenta she said it was divided and that its possible there had been a twin at one point (identical twins share a placenta). I've wondered at times if doctors will someday find a part of that twin in him (happens more than people realize). Regardless, i had dismissed that vague feeling i had, but after finding out about my placenta I think my body was telling me something.
Your right the mans in denial but look at the alternative, his wife suffers a horrific accident, he spent unknown amount of time with this women who he believes is his wife, falsely believes his wife had an abortion behind his back, then being told his wife his dead, he wasn't by her side when she passed on, that would destroy him clinging onto hope that he knows her might be naïve but he's desperate
I would think the first thing they would have done when he said he could feel something in his neck would be to take an x-ray instead of pretending to remove it by pinching him.
A few years ago I met a friend I made my A-level with.... she told me she thought she had cancer. And continued that the doctors found out she had her twin inside her. As big as a small orange.... Fortunately everything went fine. I do not know if that twin was genetically identical.
"They're gonna get you! They're coming through the walls. They're gonna take you! Torture you! You'll never see your parents again." LOL - more doctors should traumatize kids like this.
I find it hard to watch any scenes when I know that Cameron is in the room. Still, I would enjoy the company of Cameron over Dr. Manning from Chicago Med any day.
@@TrueTrickster2016 the mere sight of her makes my blood boil because of her character in this show. I hate how she is so quick to make assumptions and jump to conclusions.
@@voiceacticon667 While i personally dont hate her, i can agree that she's the most annoying of the main group. For me its particularly her arc of always needing to personally help the weak, hurt or dying. Like her irresistable urge to be anyones best friend rather than a doctor.
Interesting story to tell his grandkids "Oh yea once the doctors told me I was about to be abducted by aliens to save me from my twin brother I absorbed as a fetus"
"Dennis, there was another twin in your mother's womb. We were going to call him Donnie. You and Deandra devoured him before he could be born. You gobbled him up! Donnie! You would've been the good one!"
It's good thing I have RU-vid to use a context warning to point me to an authoritative source about Alien Abduction. Otherwise I would have been fooled about false info from a fiction TV show.