Radgirl, in actuality, I've only been to Canada once. The family travelling from CA got stuck in snow for 11 hours, while we arrived tired from southern Texas. It was all to show the g-children what snow was like.
There was none. Christmas, and not a flake. We drove for hours before seeing ski slopes with 'God, give us snow!' emblazoned on roadside billboards. Not a good sign.
When we got back to the heat, it had snowed for the first time in 109 years.
My biopsy was done in a Texas Christian hospital by a lovely doctor that waived his fees for this beleaguered Brit. I paid for the lab work. I was over 60 when this all came about so could head back to the UK for treatment. I saw the specialist about 15 hours after landing.
My GP had recommended Watchful Waiting before being told the Gleeson. My wife did the research and wheeled my bewildered state into an interview with a nice specialist nurse in an Essex hospital. I was then driven to Southend to meet Mr Lodge, one of the (then) 4 UK specialists at the teaching hospital.
I got told not to be late for the actual procedure because of the aforementioned cost. Miss the time and they have to be thrown away.
Talking of which - I wasn't allowed to cuddle my grandchildren for a while, and I could not be incinerated for a year. Good job, as I wasn't dead. Radio iodine 125.
The upshot of all this was that I was back to my bouncy self just days later . . . fully functional and eyeing the Rivetess like a rejuvenated puppy. Which is possibly one of the reasons she moved 600 yards up the road.
Life is so strange.
Brains:
I never quote my professor son as he takes his work very seriously and I might fuzz the details, but we do talk about brains now and then and a recent discussion lead me to a post on a cosmology forum today. Quantum entanglement in brains. I muse over the fact we have c 86 Billion neurons giving multi trillions of possible interconnections, and now it's postulated that there may be some 'action at a distance between the transmitter's electrons. This would up the anti by many orders of magnitude and leave us never being able to map conciousness. I had wondered if the synapse neuro-trasmiters might be encoded, but that wouldn't be in the same league as physically unconnected messages crossing the brain.
I wouldn't have given it a second thought if it hadn't been one of Sir Roger Penrose's hobby-horses some years ago.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/...-brain/506768/