Chelating, what fun! It’s like soaking up heavy metals. You can of course get heavy metal poisoning, it’s a nasty side effect of industrial pollution, but since Tilly isn’t eating fish from minamata bay or working an aluminium smelter I think she’s probably fine. Maybe that posh house still has lead paint and she’s been licking the dado rail.
Ahhhhh ok so she’s Irish somewhere. That explains the weird maxilla thing.
Ch 185: And she's getting whole exome sequencing!!!! Can't wait to see what variants of uncertain significance this one will claim are actually very significant!
Oooh! I await with bated breath… and I am disappoint. Two uncertain minor mutations in one of the genes for it.
192: Tilly has been spoiled and coddled by her father for her entire life
@Kate Farms Shill i don’t know if you’ve ever read it but there’s a book called ‘sanity, madness and the family.’ It’s by a guy called R D Laing. He was an odd one and possibly rather unpleasant, he was involved with the Tavistock, but anyway the book is basically verbatim interviews with female schizophrenia patients and their families. As you read the interviews you can see how their families have literally driven them mad, how they drive the illness and how they have weird dynamics. Reading about Tilly made me think of the book. I’m sure there’s a feee off online somewhere, it might pique your interest.
237: back to genetics and surprise, they don't have Lynch syndrome, but since they don't know what this gene mutation is they need to be screened regularly for bowel cancers.
Ah, you see genetics here doing a great job.
‘Yeah, you’re fine! But these are of unknown significance so you’re going to have to have a colonoscopy quite regularly and hopefully you’ll get cancer so we can do a biopsy and me and Brian here can get a minor paper out of these new mutations! ‘
She’s fascinating, the family are fascinating. The soft mild unthreatening boyfriend. The eating disorder (that’s why her hands look so huge, she’s 7 1/2 stone and quite tall.) the mother, who seems very central to this. The unthreatening concerned dad.
More Tilly! Also happy 1000 pages.
And also, do have some sympathy for the kind people of the genetics dept, who do in general see some awful cases, and whose first thought when presented with a Tilly is almost always that they may be suffering from a rare unknown something and maybe we can help (and get a nice publication out of it and maybe a syndrome named after us…)