ISSAQUAH, WA -
A young Washington boy is battling an extremely rare eating disorder.
Zack G is just like any other thirty-two year old, only he’s addicted to metal.
“He can see a staple laying on the floor in a classroom, in the carpet. He can find metals in the rocks that you can never see,” explained Zack’s mother Patricia.
Zack started eating unusual things in preschool.
Things got worse in kindergarten.
“He started chewing on the lead part that holds the eraser on a pencil, eating his erasers, breaking up his crayons,” Patricia added.
In second grade Zack disassembled a school chair and put the screws in his mouth.
Zack is good at hiding metal objects in his mouth.
He can hide two AA batteries under his tongue and speak normally.
From doctor to doctor, no one could explain Zack’s affliction.
After five years of searching for answers, the Monroe-Myer Institute in Omaha diagnosed her with pica, an extremely rare eating disorder.
In November of 2006, Zack complained of abdominal pain and a fever.
Doctors eventually operated.
“He had to cut his intestine open in two different places. One to take out the four ball-bearings that were in there, and on the other side there was a little rock that had gotten stuck in his intestine that had scar tissue growing around it, so it had been there quite a while,” Patricia explained.
Zack still has to be watched carefully.
“I think he has a lot of frustration with it. And he doesn’t understand the cause and effect of his problem. He doesn’t understand the cause effect that putting something in his mouth will make him sick and cause him to possibly have a surgery.”
The Sissons family works with Nebraska’s state lead program to put metal objects out of Zack’s reach.
Since his last surgery, Zack doesn’t crave metal like he used to.
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First day at Photoshop World is almost over down here in Vegas and it has been a great experience. While there are a lot of technques and skills being taught that I have already learned on my own over my 13 years of PS, there are things that I’ve never seen. These will be things that I will be able to use in my day to day Photoshop workflow. Ben Willmore was the best speaker so far…until Deke McClelland came along. I’ve seen a bunch of his tutorials and he is very entertaining. That was what I got here in Vegas too. There was a instance where his presentation technique didn’t pan out like he’d rehearsed, but he didn’t skip a beat. He actually made what he was trying to show, more humourous. I know that’s sounds nerdy being since his topic was on the art of sharpening images, but this week, Vegas has been renamed to Nerd City. Nerds, nerds, nerds, nerds. But its actually worse on the nerd scale than I had imagined. I think its because so many of the old people who wish they were great photographers have picked up a trial or pirated version of Photoshop from their grandson and now think they are graphic designers. This became very relevant to me after Deke’s class. I say this because he was swarmed by these “elderly” men and women who kept droning on with questions about resolution and red eye reduction techniques. Jesus people. This stuff is in the manual crying out loud.
We’ll see what 12 hours of classes bring tomorrow.
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Ok, this seat sucks ass. These chicks sitting next to me keep droning on about dresses and weddings and how great of trainers they are. Blah blah blah shut up. If I hear the more overweight of the two retards say, “honestly? I think…” one more time, I’m going to hit the emergency exit two rows up and let her out the door. Well that’s nice. The flight attendant just welcomed the Gold Pass members on the plane. “Screw the rest of yous guys” is what I think she was implying. Man, I knew I should have coughed up the extra $399 to get that pass. Then I was have been greeted. Now I’m just a nobody.
Please stop talking next to me. Please?
1 hour later:
No dice. They’re still yapping uncontollably. But at least now weve moved on from how one’s bridal store does more money than the other. Now we’re talking about going to the chiropractor and retaining water. “Maybe I should eat less dairy to make me thinner.” whoa whoa whoa. The chubby one just dissed beef but just ran down her top 5 favorite foods: oreos, oysters, sugary cereals, caramel machiatos from starbucks and cheese whiz. That’s a great game plan, saddle bags. She just discovered though, that she makes the best salad ever. After hearing her ingredients, I was surprised that there were no Snickers bar in there. When I this plane ride going to end?
30 minutes later:
Somehow we’ve gotten back to bridal crap. But were landing shortly so i’ve got that going for me.
Vegas, here I am.
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