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"Aragon, who is the mother of three young children, didn't question her doctors diagnosis of allergies at first but after weeks of walking around with paper towels stuffed up her nose, she grew concerned enough to go to a nearby urgent care center. There, both the nurse and doctor were shocked at her condition. "You should have seen [the doctor's] face, when he tried to be expressionless," she told ABC. When the nurse asked her to fill a tube for a sample, a calm Aragon told her, "I can fill that tube up 20 times over." Ugh. Once the diagnosis of leaky brain syndrome was confirmed, Aragon was sent to the University of Arizona for surgery. The process is usually barbaric ("We [would] retract the brain and pull in backward, taking out the frontal lobes and lift them out of the way and patch up the belly of the brain," said one of her doctors about the old procedure), but the University of Arizona has it down to a simple science. "Now, we go right through the nose — like going under the car to fix the carburetor," her doctor said. Yep, totally just like fixing a car. Aragon is now doing fine, with a totally leakless brain. But she's not completely in the clear. According to her doctor: "She's not leaking anymore, but we have to make sure she doesn't spring a new leak," which is reassuring."

http://gawker.com/5965371/woman-with-runny-nose-turns-out-to-be-woman-with-leaking-brain-fluid

12/5/2012 11:53:21 AM

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"TOTALLY LEAKLESS BRAIN"

12/5/2012 11:56:45 AM

LUCY LEAKLESS

12/5/2012 11:58:21 AM

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""It wasn't even dripping, it was pouring out of my nose," said Aragon, a 35-year-old mother from Tucson, Ariz. "If I looked down or bent over, it would literally pore out of the left side of my nose. I had no control at all.""

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JAMES

12/5/2012 12:08:55 PM

sounds like somebody has....

...water on the brain.

12/5/2012 12:11:06 PM

YYYYEEEEEAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

12/5/2012 12:30:59 PM

I'm glad she's OK now

12/5/2012 12:32:32 PM

woah

12/5/2012 12:51:45 PM

^^^^

"wet behind the ears" would be better

12/5/2012 1:00:08 PM

She needs brain tampons.

12/5/2012 1:02:57 PM

Get well soon!

12/5/2012 1:14:10 PM