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Five Eyes and a Toothy Trunk
The better to see and taste you with
Created on 2005-03-13 09:27:32 (#6433772), last updated 2006-01-02
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Basic Info| Name: | Opabinia regalis |
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| Birthdate: | 07-11 |
| Location: | Newcastle, Washington, United States |
BioThis is JewelyaZ, and the journal I created to track my WLS revision.
My original surgery was a 125-cm non-transected, 30 cc pouch Open proximal RNY performed by Dr. Weber in Seattle on 09/17/01. I started at 310 (BMI 54.9) and got to 126 (BMI 22.3) after plastics/reconstructives with Dr. Egrari in Bellevue on 07/22/02.
I started having problems in September of 2003, and saw Dr. Oh several times to try to decide what to do. In March of 2005, at 210 pounds (BMI 37.2), I was ready for my next (and hopefully, last) surgery. My revision surgery was a 60" common channel, transected, 15 cc pouch Open distal RNY with Dr. Oh in Federal Way on 04/28/05.
About Opabinia regalis:
I discovered this neato creature on a Discovery HD show. I can be just as ruthless, and would benefit from five eyes (who needs FOUR eyes? ROFL) so I decided to grab it as a mascot of sorts.
Opabinia must have been a predator, and an odd one at that, with five eyes, a segmented body, and a miniature elephant’s trunk for a nose. It was thoroughly described by Harry Whittington in 1975 as one of the most remarkable creatures in the history of science, and is now considered a close cousin of the arthropods. Whittington found five eyes with two stalked pairs and one smaller central eye in an extraordinary creature approximately 50–70 mm in length. The eyes are almost spider-like in distribution, and probably provided stereopsis. Whittington dissected beneath the carapace (the stuff of genius since these are fossils compacted into slate!) and found the animal to be bilaterally symmetrical (like us, but in contrast with radially symmetrical, like a starfish). Opabinia had this peculiar and flexible "elephant trunk" proboscis with what were most likely grasping spines at the end of the trunk. This trunk with its prehensile spiny lips was probably designed to deliver food to the mouth on the ventral surface. Although these creatures were rare within the Burgess shale, where they were first found, it is likely that the large visual field the eyes would have produced, the streamlined segmented body, and presumed aquatic speed, made for an agile and successful predator.
My original surgery was a 125-cm non-transected, 30 cc pouch Open proximal RNY performed by Dr. Weber in Seattle on 09/17/01. I started at 310 (BMI 54.9) and got to 126 (BMI 22.3) after plastics/reconstructives with Dr. Egrari in Bellevue on 07/22/02.
I started having problems in September of 2003, and saw Dr. Oh several times to try to decide what to do. In March of 2005, at 210 pounds (BMI 37.2), I was ready for my next (and hopefully, last) surgery. My revision surgery was a 60" common channel, transected, 15 cc pouch Open distal RNY with Dr. Oh in Federal Way on 04/28/05.
About Opabinia regalis:
I discovered this neato creature on a Discovery HD show. I can be just as ruthless, and would benefit from five eyes (who needs FOUR eyes? ROFL) so I decided to grab it as a mascot of sorts.
Opabinia must have been a predator, and an odd one at that, with five eyes, a segmented body, and a miniature elephant’s trunk for a nose. It was thoroughly described by Harry Whittington in 1975 as one of the most remarkable creatures in the history of science, and is now considered a close cousin of the arthropods. Whittington found five eyes with two stalked pairs and one smaller central eye in an extraordinary creature approximately 50–70 mm in length. The eyes are almost spider-like in distribution, and probably provided stereopsis. Whittington dissected beneath the carapace (the stuff of genius since these are fossils compacted into slate!) and found the animal to be bilaterally symmetrical (like us, but in contrast with radially symmetrical, like a starfish). Opabinia had this peculiar and flexible "elephant trunk" proboscis with what were most likely grasping spines at the end of the trunk. This trunk with its prehensile spiny lips was probably designed to deliver food to the mouth on the ventral surface. Although these creatures were rare within the Burgess shale, where they were first found, it is likely that the large visual field the eyes would have produced, the streamlined segmented body, and presumed aquatic speed, made for an agile and successful predator.
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