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I can get being upset over finding out that PS is your friends' bio son and she set it up for you to adopt him, but this is really absurd. She certainly didn't do anything bad enough to result in her being repeatedly physically abused (and grams should get bent). And, while she may have thought that Sun Young would adopt him, it isn't like she forced it upon them.

PS is clearly the best thing that ever happened to Sun Young and her family. Instead they are acting like it was some huge burden for them. Just obnoxious. And granny last episode taking advantage of Ma Ri was really gross too. Thankfully PS isn't actually related to any of them so fingers crossed his whole worthless family will all trip and fall in a wood chipper next week.

At least older brother is finally showing some growth and repentance (and telling their mom in front of DR that she had promised to not take advantage of DR and that all they had done was make her suffer).

The character profile talks about his birth secret being revealed. That plot point won't hit if it isn't tied to MR. Her referring to HS being JT's son was in context of HW (WR) not being his son, tied to the previous conversation between them where he had talked about how terrible it would be for HS to raise someone else's son.

NY's mom is not U Ri's mom.

I wager people have soured on SY for a few reasons.

First, she apparently did nothing to find her daughter after they moved to America (this is after having not insisted to meet right away allowing evil lady to spirit them way). It is a weird position to have put the character in, not really sure what the writer was thinking, would be much better to at least have her at least having done something over the years.

Second, she is way to convinced of her own correctness. This has played out negatively repeatedly with Su Ji, starting with their first meeting and her forcing the food on her, and continuing through now to the most recent issue (early in SJ living there SY actually had a moment of self-reflection that maybe she was wrong, but that's gone now). She seems to be entirely incapable of understanding that people can have different opinions on things (or simply not like, be allergic, or have a visceral negative reaction for whatever reason), and that is ok.

Third, her recent bout of meanness. She is being irrationally mean to SJ, probably because she feels guilty over SJ accurately pointing out that some mothers don't come back. Thus the extreme anger of SJ politely (attempting at least) leaving the breakfast table, as it was a ritual to honor the daughter that SY unintentionally did not go back to (the very thing SJ was warning the kid about). The nonsense about HS is gross as well. Blaming the victim is yucky behavior. I dread to think what she would say if SJ was assaulted while wearing a skirt.

I actually think SY is very selfish. We can see it easily with the uncle, whom she must have known for years likes her, yet she ignores it so she can take advantage of the relationship. We can see it as well when she went back after recovery from the accident and didn't insist on seeing her daughter. Being concerned over her being angry is selfish, that is worry over how you will be perceived, rather than worry over what the other is going through. If she had insisted, then even if SJ was still taken away, she wouldn't have the same issues today that she does. The adoptions may make her seem selfless, but I'd argue that is a classic case of false altruism, she has adopted the kids to feel better about herself, not for their sakes.

That would be the end of their relationship. His priorities have changed from the heartless character we first met.

3. Granny didn't want her to leave, said she would steal the male baby for her to raise.

6. I assume so, as she appears to have been in practice for greater than 2 years. But I could be wrong.

7. Abandoned child from former employee. And, in my opinion, she does like him, she just feels unworthy.

8. The granny is WR residence is the older sister of the uncle. That is the only biological relationship in the house.

There has been no indication of that occurring. FL and ML have a perfectly fine working relationship (once he stopped being a real jerk). ML & FL will almost certainly get together after her life comes crashing down, which I figure will involve SML leaving/betraying her, which I figure will come about from his parents' disapproval. While it seems like ti would be his dad to blame, his mom is so unpleasant I would not be surprised that she leads the charge and SMl either goes along with it or doesn't defend her. He is a fairly creepy character to be honest.

It was a little bit of development for her. Last time she rana way for her, this time she was leaving for him, but ultimately didn't. Still, I agree with you that it indicative of the overall issues with the show.

It uses heat to kill the tumor. Generally speaking, it is done in one session.

It is not fake. Early attempts did require making a hole in the skull, but that is no longer required. Currently in use to treat some types of brain tumors very successfully, and widely used for certain non-brain tumors. The sound waves do pass through bone in general, just with distortion causing a loss in efficiency. It has been used to treat tremors from Parkinson's for a while. You need a dense skull for it to work.

ES's obsession storyline has been a serious negative for the show. Entirely reliant upon bad writing. Incredibly frustrating.

He only wanted the hotel in order to go back to headquarters with a feather in his cap. He obviously has no intention of leaving China now, so his interest in getting the hotel for Botticelli has disappeared.

She was obviously going to change her mind. My opinion is that, like me, people just hate the dumb ES obsession storyline. It relies solely on bad writing and brings nothing positive to the show. Just meh all around.

Earlier, you did not know it could be used on brain tumors. Then, after pointing out how you were wrong, you shifted goalposts.

I was talking about clinical trials using hifu to treat glioblastomas. Not a drug trial, and not low intensity to help drugs.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17143231/ Magnetic resonance imaging-guided, high-intensity focused ultrasound for brain tumor therapy

That is one from the mid 2000s. It is not the only one. People have been working on it for decades. It looks like one started in Zurich way back in 2010, with the first patient two years later and first "success" two years after that.

Do you really not understand why the length of time that she has had symptoms relates to the grade?

And the MRI is used for targeting and verification in this case. The use of them is extremely common in normal tumor removal operations. Hospitals nowadays can buy a setup that allows the machine to be moved into the OR from an adjacent room when the surgeons want to see how they are progressing so the patient does not need to be moved.

This is all a silly diversion anyways, as the main thing is that hifu can most certainly be used to target brain tumors. It isn't like there is anything inherent in the grade that would preclude its usage. While they may have advanced the technology a bit on the show, it isn't pure fabrication.

Anyways, you can keep shifting goalposts on your own, I've had enough fun.

It is ok to just say, "oh, wow, I didn't know that."

I don't know low long she has had the tumor/symptoms, so I do not know if it is high or low.

But, just for fun, as you are are nitpicking, I checked and there are clinical trials for the treatment of glioblastoma (a high grade tumor) as well. Note, I am not saying that there are not other trials for different high (or low) grade tumors.

I'm sorry that you being repeatedly wrong is pissing you off.

"Children’s National will now use HIFU to treat low-grade type tumors located in difficult locations of the brain, such as hypothalamic hamartomas and pilocytic astrocytoma, as well as for movement disorders and epilepsy."

That's from two years ago, after they had performed their first successful treatment.

Before FDA approval, they very much experiment on patients. That is what a clinical trial is.

Anesthesia in this case would likely be used in order to fully immobilize the patient, both to ensure no accidental damage from movement and to enable targeting. The big problem with the scene is the absence of an MRI machine, not the use of HIFU.

First, you are wrong about it not being used to target brain tumors. While still in trial stages, it has been done.

Second, even if it had not been done, so what? This is fiction, it is ok for them to advance the technology beyond what we are currently capable of.

They used multiple beams of sound to heat the tumor and destroy it. No head shaving required.

Using high intensity ultrasound to destroy tumors is a real thing. It can generally precisely target target tumors, destroying them completely (burning them away), and yes, in one session.

It is not the low intensity ultrasound that you are thinking of, and not at all a treatment for chronic pain, unless the pain is being caused by a tumor (or other similarly invasive growth). If you would like to learn more, you can look up high intensity focused ultrasound online.

For HI, they are saying that due to the nature of the tumor(s), part of her brain will be damaged in order to completely eradicate it. As earlier they had described it as quite diffused, it is not illogical.

You are awfully hostile for someone so wrong.

That is why I described him as a mashup of two characters. If his purpose is Hae in, his actions to destroy her family don't make any sense. Would be a lot more logical if he had betrayed his mother in order to further ingratiate himself to the Hongs and HI. Instead we get this weird draggy plotline, just bad writing.