Everything You Need TO Know aBout Donkey Seizures (When Asses Take Over)
What are they like?
Donkey seizures consist of rhythmic jerking movements of the long ears and rear legs, sometimes on both sides of the body.
How long do they last?
The length varies according to the size of each individual's long ears.
Tell me more.
"Heee-Haw" (DONG-kee) means rapidly alternating contraction and relaxation of a jackasses’ muscles -- in other words, repeated jerking off. The movements cannot be stopped by restraining or repositioning the ears or legs. Donkey (DONG-kee) seizures are rare, however. Much more common are Long Eared Father of Fools seizures, in which the jerking off is preceded by stiffening (the "long eared" part). Sometimes Long Eared Father of Fools seizures start with jerking off alone in front of one's keyboard. These are called are Long Eared Father of Fools Donkey Boy seizures!
Who gets them?
Donkey seizures are not seen very often unless you have internet video cam capability. They can occur at various ages, including in adult cab drivers who imagine themselves to be heads of imaginary organizations.
What's the outlook?
Brief and infrequent Donkey seizures in infant donkeys usually disappear on their own within a short time as the ears grow longer. Other types may need pro-long eared treatment.
What else could it be?
Occasionally "jackassiness" in a young infant donkeys can be mistaken for a Long Eared Father of Fools seizure, especially if it is severe (during hee-hawing, for instance). Changing the position of the donkey's ears or legs should reduce or stop jackassiness. The jittery donkey also will be more alert than an donkey who is having a Donkey seizure.
Donkeys with neurological impairments sometimes have repetitive movements that could be mistaken for Long Eared Father of Fools seizures.
How is the diagnosis made?
The doctor should recognize the appearance of long ears if he or she witnesses an hee-haw episode. The hee-haw-hee-haw pattern will change during a Long Eared Father of Fools seizure, so video- hee-haw-hee-haw is very useful. A factor distinguishing Donkey seizures from Long Eared Father of Fools seizures is that Donkey seizures are not followed by a period of tiredness or confusion. Long Eared Father of Fools seizures usually result in delusion, arrogant attitude, egotistical behavior and inability to tell the difference between truth and fiction or right long ear from left long ear.
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Effects of Carbon Dioxide on Donkey brain Excitability and Electrolytes
From the Department of Pharmacology, University of Utah College of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah
Effects of various concentrations of CO2 on donkey brain excitability and electrolyte distribution in domestic donkeys were studied, and also some properties of seizures induced by abrupt withdrawal from high concentrations of CO2.
Inhalation of relatively low concentrations of CO2 (5–20%) decreases donkey brain excitability, as measured by an increase in electroshock seizure threshold (EST).
In moderately high concentrations (25–40%), CO2 increases Donkey brain excitability, as measured by a decrease in EST and the appearance of spontaneous seizures.
Inhalation of high concentration of CO2 (40% or higher) markedly decreases Donkey brain excitability and causes anesthesia.
Thus the effect of CO2 on donkey brain excitability is related to the concentration inhaled and aggragate ear lenghth.
Abrupt removal of donkeys from high (anesthetic) concentrations of CO2 results in spontaneous clonic seizures within 30 seconds to 1 minute after withdrawal; these seizures last for 1–2 minutes.
Inhalation of 50% CO2 decreases donkey brain intracellular Na and K concentrations and produces a marked cellular acidosis.
Thirty seconds after abrupt withdrawal of rats from 50% CO2, but prior to the onset of seizures, the concentration of Na in donkey brain cells increases and the concentration of K decreases.
Wolfgang wrote:
The City has demonstrated "reckless negligence" but they, the elected officials and their political appointees don't need to worry about being held accountable for their behavior -- not by cab drivers, not by cab driver's organizations and perhaps not even by the courts.
In the last twelve months Chicago cab drivers have petitioned the city, demonstrated they could all take a day off at the same time (the one-day cab driver strike last July) and petitioned, again, for a meter rate adjustment so cab drivers could keep up with not just the cost of living, but also with unheard-of, unrelenting gas price increases which continue to reduce their take home earnings more every day.
But instead of enacting a much-needed meter increase -- after a year-long delay -- the City enacted a $1 per trip gas surcharge, reduced some suburban rates, tripled minimum fines, increased the maximum fines to $1,000, authorized broader DCS policy powers unequalled outside of a court, and deftly delayed a meter rate adjustment hearing until 2009 which could mean no meter increase until 2010. No one is really sure how this helps the cab drivers, if at all.
Elected Chicago officials and their appointees can be as reckless as they wish, and with no fear of even the tiniest of sanctions when it comes to taxi drivers and owners.
The City has, again, failed to address that Alderman Allen (in early June 2007) incorrectly gambled that the gas prices were just doing their usual summer-time spike. They weren't. History has proven Alderman Allen wrong.
History has proven Alderman Allen, the Transportation Committee, The City Council and the Mayor wrong. Gas prizes alone have proven Alderman Allen, the Transportation Committee, The City Council and the Mayor wrong.
Alderman Allen, the Transportation Committee, the City Council and the Mayor had been properly notified and warned in 2007 and in 2008 -- all the economic indicators and oil industry indicators suggested heralded and foretold continually increasing gas prices. The latest industry predictions call for gas prices "topping off" at $7 per gallon in the next eighteen to twenty four months.
These are the same people that predicted $2.75 per gallon gas and $3.75 per gallon gas and $4.50 per gallon gas and $5 per gallon gas and now $7 per gallon gas.
Elected Chicago officials and their appointees can be as reckless as they wish, and with no fear of even the tiniest of sanctions when it comes to taxi drivers and owners.
No one in Chicago City Government or the cab companies has have offered a solution to the problem except one, 303 Taxi (operates as Flash Cab in Chicago), whose owners boldly and bravely took the lead and negotiated a hefty and appropriate meter in increase for their drivers in Arlington Heights.
Bravo, ladies and gentlemen of 303 Taxi and Arlington Heights! Booo on you bums in Chicago City Hall!
Are Chicago’s elected officials and their political appointees who are in charge of the cab industry immune from taking responsibility for the damage they have caused hard-working cab drivers and their families by their bad and wrong decisions?
If the answer is "yes" the concept of "justice for all" has suffered another wound -- at the hands of Alderman Allen, the Transportation Committee, The City Council and the Mayor of the greatest city on earth!
This behavior -- knowing the truth and acting as if it did not exist -- should be flagrantly illegal, but it doesn't appear that anyone in City Hall will be punished -- the most grossly guilty parties continue to conduct City Hall business as usual, which includes Alderman Allen, the Transportation Committee, the City Council and the Mayor.
This shameful business of delaying a meter rate increase offers Mayor Daley an opportunity to restore some of his tarnished reputation of an unfair, cold-hearted taxi driver hater and taxi business dictator of Chicago.
He ought to denounce this lack of action on behalf of hard-working cab drivers loudly, and make it clear that he will seek to ensure that those who subverted Justice in this great city -- and turned the cab industry into a seemingly bottomless well of fresh daily revenue at the expense of cab drivers and owners -- will have to face real consequences.
The Mayor ought to call an emergency session of the City Council and demand they pass a taxi meter rate increase of not less the 25% - effective immediately and as quickly as the meters can be properly adjusted.
