The Boney Island Whitefish in: Bones, James Bones
BoontaVista's Andrew (@IllyBocean) and our very own Riley (@raaleh) are back for episode 2 of the fifth season of Bones for @BoneyIslandPod, in which network television is brave enough to ask the question "what if James Bond was real and also very bad at being a spy but it was hard to solve his murder because your bad case of Coma Brain makes you forget how plumbing works?"
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Clearly the guy dying at the beginning makes him a 009 not a 007
This is the funniest shit I've ever heard and it's literally just what happened
this is so fucking funny
"Thank you common dreams or whatever it's called" lmfao. Also some shit about how you keep your motor functioning even if you lose cognitive memory
Damn you for putting me down the rabbit hole on figuring out how realistic the tumor/ coma/ inability to plumb situation is Short answer: it's not at all realistic. Long answer: To answer this question, we must first ask: what is the tumor that Booth has? The two main manifestations of Booth's tumor seem to be visual hallucinations: seeing/ interacting with a deceased war buddy, and seeing/ interacting with cartoon character Peter Griffin in the penultimate episode of season 4. Though case reports are mostly old and rare, there are cases of complex visual hallucinations (https://sci-hub.tw/10.1159/000283948) when bloodflow is compromised to the temporo-occipital regions of the brain, which is a common complication of brain tumors-- since the skull is a closed space, abnormal growth can limit bloodflow very quickly-- but the consequences of cerebral ischemia are catastrophic and take years to recover from, if patients recover at all. Sorts of ischemic injuries are often in elderly patients, and often presage decline and/or death. But, for the sake of entertaining the premise, let's say yeah, the otherwise healthy 30-something Seeley Booth has a rapidly-growing, benign, temporal or occipital brain tumor of unclear etiology. My best guess, just statistically speaking for a benign tumor, would be a benign meningioma, which are fairly common but rarely cause these kinds of symptoms in isolation (https://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/3/5609/9.full.pdf)-- but, again, benefit of the doubt. So Booth has a benign meningioma causing complex visual hallucinations, so doctors decide to take it out. I don't know what they say about the operation, but it's possible they could've put him under anesthesia for an extended period of time because of the difficulty of removing it-- similar to this remarkable case of a meningioma removal that required two separate surgeries due to its vascularity (https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/articles/a-fresh-start-after-tumor-surgery)-- but an actual coma is really, really not likely unless something went very, very wrong during surgery. So let
's presume that the "coma"-- how long is he under, by the way?-- is just him coming out of medical anesthesia for the removal procedure. Can Booth have functional problems as specific as forgetting how to plumb? No! Problems tend to be gestalt-- in organization generally, for example, or speech generally, or memory generally, or coordination generally. They can last for a while-- this case series suggests 6 months is the earliest that significant improvements will happen (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4825349/)-- but the idea that a guy that can do everything else EXCEPT plumbing because of his brain surgery? Bonkers. Ok I'm done now
Incredible. Side note: hodgins (hodges according to riley) is sole heir to some Rockefeller type family so he would have the cash. Angela is implied to be paid much less than the others because she鈥檚 just a magic computer artist instead of a magic bone scientist so that one is still a mystery
Why did you make this, Why do you do this to me