Jadzia puked up a giant amount of thick Whiskas dry & canned food filled peanut butter-like paste just orange with bits of
fur & pieces of shaped cooked prepared commercial food,
all over the book that sat on my bedside table,
because I kept putting it down every time the author mentioned another Clinical trial where animals were involved…
So I had left it there, waiting perhaps a month in between short bursts of reading,
to soothe my pissed off mind,
each time a success story followed some cruel trick,
on animals that were rather highly capable mentally,
like an ape…
Her vomit covered over the name of the author (Dr. Norman Doidge, M.D.) & oozed backwards over the commentary the
publisher had written at the top mentioning a previous bestselling New York Times book by the same author
(The brain that changes)…
The surprise of the sudden outpouring of regurgitation was a cause for pause…
or a cause for Paws, as some would say…
When I evaluated Jadzia’s work
(Jadzia is a bengal cat, intact with her ovaries untouched by scalpel, snow leopard class gold
type in the
F6 domestic hybrid class, registered as being born April 16, 2005)
, ( as is her roommate also intact, B’elanna born
Dec. 1, 2004,
a snow leopard class silver type bengal cat)…
When I evaluated the choice of locations of where this smart cat had chosen to regurgitate a cheap & fast food type possibly
high in all the wrong things but tastes so good, ’cause Whiskas knows cats(it is really hard to resist & they had been eating
“health” food for so long Joseph, my benevolent husband, took it upon himself to release them from the health nut furor…
I applauded her decision, & was delighted & just so proud as any cat mother might be…
B’Elanna seconded the excellent location scouting & of course the quantity of grossness that emanated from our precious
little spotted cat’s mouth…
I promised myself I would write about this event, & this is that…
The book is called The Brain’s Way of Healing & looks at Neuroplasticity…
Dr. Doidge would be delighted to know that cats can now read, & are up to date on current use of apes & other species in
Clinical Trials in the field of cognitive & behavioural aspects of neurosurgery…
On page 12 when the clinician amputates the third finger of the ape in order to discover something that most commonfolk
already knew, that everything, even the brain grows back eventually…
I should have vomited as well, at Indigo Chapters, at the book signing, while sitting in a visible row beside Dennis
Kucherawy, a friend of mine & possibly the best writer on the planet, who fell asleep during the interview portion because
he got bored( a euphemism for I had told him about page 12 before the sit down)…
My friend Dennis Kucherawy was hit by a car while crossing Bay street south of Bloor street in Toronto, & as head of
communications for a massive film company, he was slowly, oh so slowly, let go…
Brain damage from getting hit by a car can do that to your job…Lose it…
Yes, unfortunately, large companies, even those run by somewhat artistic peoples, get rid of their own, for becoming
disabled…
So he rehabilitated himself with the money he got after suing them for years, ran a Marine type marathon, picked up his
wife who is becoming a Homeopath now later in life, & writes now with even more flair than before the accident…
You would not know there was any damage unless he told you…
Yes the brain grows back, new neural pathways can be formed, frontal lobe injuries can be reversed, & great people can
return to greatness…
Are there not enough accidents in this world for us to study carefully without having to cause harm on purpose?