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Imagine having a hole drilled in your head and soft tissure stuffed in so your cranial fluid doesn’t leak down your spine… well, hopefully you’ll be unconscious when that happens.

A friend of mine, Neener, who’s online journal is called Neenerpants, has a Chiari Malformation, which is a funny way to say she has a hole in her head (which many of us have accused her of in the past and now we all feel bad because it turned out to be true). As it turns out, a small percentage of the population have the condition but rarely know of it unless there was a reason to have an MRI; on a whim because of a back problem, the test revealed the unknown malady, which may also explain any number of other weird little problems she has encountered.

But the real story is this: I’m worried for her, as I’m sure everyone else is. But Ace, Neener’s ever-faithful husband, is the one with the most pressure for all the obvious reasons and a few that no one else could probably understand right now. Brave lad, that one.

So, tonight, she will have her head shaved surrounded by friends in a ritualistic manner befitting someone about to go through an ordeal such as this. If ya gotta do it, why not make a production of it, right? On Thursday, everything should turn out fine, and after she recovers she’ll be good as new. To paraphrase Neener herself, it’s worth the risk because having no strength to do the things she loves with people she loves “sucks,” and that’s all there is to it.

Say a prayer to whatever higher power you worship and let the ritual begin!