Wiki Wednesday

Time to learn something!

1. Go to Wikipedia.
2. Click on "Random article" in the left-hand sidebar box.
3. Post it!

Oh swell, another type of dementia I'd never heard of:

Familial encephalopathy with neuroserpin inclusion bodies (FENIB) is a progressive disorder of the nervous system that is characterized by a loss of intellectual functioning (dementia) and seizures. At first, affected individuals may have difficulty sustaining attention and concentrating. Their judgment, insight, and memory become impaired as the condition progresses. Over time, they lose the ability to perform the activities of daily living, and most people with this condition eventually require comprehensive care.

The signs and symptoms of familial encephalopathy with neuroserpin inclusion bodies vary in their severity and age of onset. In severe cases, the condition causes seizures and episodes of sudden, involuntary muscle jerking or twitching (myoclonus) in addition to dementia. These signs can appear as early as a person's teens. Less severe cases are characterized by a progressive decline in intellectual functioning beginning in a person's forties or fifties....

I'm enough of a hypochondriac as it is without learning about more diseases I might be carrying.

Comments

[Carla]

I agree with you, Karen. I have learned to stay away from Dr. Google whenever I feel sick, and especially when my baby is sick. There is such a thing as too much information! If you Google every little symptom a 6 month old baby has, be prepared to be terrified! I learned quickly to stay away from the internets when the baby is sick- just go to the doc instead.

[Karan]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapidary_clubs

Lapidary clubs

Lapidary Clubs promote popular interest and education in Lapidary, the craft of working, forming and finishing stone, mineral, gemstones,. These clubs sponsor and provide means for their members to engage in all forms of jewellery making, cabachon cutting and faceting, carving, and glass beadmaking and craft work. The clubs also promote and facilitate healthy outdoor activities in the form of field trips to various fossicking locations for the purpose of collecting gemstones or mineral specimens. Lapidary is particularly popular in the United States of America and Australia where large numbers of clubs were formed in the 1950s and 1960s.