Woman Thinks She Has Runny Nose: Turns Out Her Brain Is Leaking
(CNN) For the past two years, 52-year-old Kendra Jackson of Omaha, Nebraska just thought she had a bad cold.
"When it first started out, I just thought it was my allergies or a runny nose -- like the beginning of a fresh cold," Jackson said.
The coughing, sneezing and runny nose began 2½ years after Jackson was involved in a serious car accident. She remembers hitting her face against the dashboard, and she has struggled with migraine headaches ever since.
The doctors she saw told her that she probably had allergies. But this year, Jackson went to physicians at Nebraska Medicine and learned the real reason behind her nasal discharge: a cerebrospinal fluid (or CSF) leak caused by a small hole in her skull.
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I don’t know what it is about 26 but suddenly everything starts to hurt, and I’m just assuming it’s all cancer. I figure best case scenario I’ll be pleasantly surprised, and worst case I can at least say I called it. Which is what everybody wants when they get cancer, to have called it. My knee’s been bugging me a while, it could be because I fell jogging (basically got tripped by the pavement, could have happened to anyone) or it could be cancer. My jaw’s really hurting too, and that could either be that I haven’t been to the dentist in three years and drink juice at all hours for my DIABETES, or it could be jaw cancer.
Needless to say this story doesn’t help with that. We’ve got a woman running around with a unstoppable stuffy nose and turns out it’s just her nose leaking brain fluid all over her shirt. Brain fluid. Brain fluid coming out of her nose. Are you fucking kidding me? How am I supposed to sleep at night? Look, I’m glad she’s fine - but what about me? I get one unstoppable runny nose per year, and now I’ve got to consider whether it’s a cold, whether the bubonic plague is making a comeback starting with me, or whether my brain sac is falling out of my nostrils.
From here on out, every time I sneeze I’m going to call my family and make sure all of my affairs are in order. Make sure the will is up to date. It’s 2018, my dear readers, and gone are the days where you’d blow your nose into a napkin and just ASSUME that it was snot. That was a luxury, and now it’s no more. Unrelated, but related, this lady had a cold for 2 1/2 years. That's too long to have a runny nose. That's roughly 900 days. 900 days of having a cold: it's basically the sequel to 500 Days Of Summer but is way sadder and ends with Joseph Gordon Levitt killing himself.
