Friday, September 28, 2012

Reproduction Repercussion


Holy Gestation! I found out I have Microchimerism. I'm sure it's true because I read it in an online newspaper today.
During pregnancy, fetal cells can migrate to the brain of the mother. They know this because they have  found traces of male Y chromosomes in females who had been pregnant. All told, I was pregnant for 6 years and 9 months. I'm thinking a lot of those Y things got in my brain during my years of sporting a prodigy pouch. How else would you explain my love of couches and TV? And now it makes sense that Alzheimer's is more common in women who had a high number of pregnancies. Sure, I'm more forgetful now. I have stupid male Y cells running around in my brain thinking stupid stuff and making me forget things like taking out the garbage and taking a shower. This discovery even explains my male "hairmone" that causes those pesty chin hairs.
But wait, there's more! It turns out this loose cell thing works both ways. Some of my X chromosomes wiggled their way from me into my male pouch passengers. That explains why my 5 boys can make a pot of coffee. (All 5 together they can make a pot of coffee. Individually they could never do it.)
The second scientific illustration, shown to the right, has nothing to do with this article, and I don't know what it means. That's because my brain is infected with Y chromosomes and I am now stupid. But I did want to include this drawing, because it clearly shows that someone lost their marbles and they're rolling around in the bottom of the hourglass.
Imagine, microchimerism. I feel special.

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