Kiraray
Actually nothing truly rots your brain unless of course you get tape worms that decide to move into your brain and the only way you can find out is through a CT scan. Then they can kill them with and oral steroid and if that doesn't work then there's surgery. Wow I need to stop bring school work into this thread I'm going to end up scaring the bejesus out of people anyone want to see a picture of a ruptured stomach ulcer spilling into the abdominal cavity. Gah sorry.
Hmm, nursing or premed? Sounds like my sister did when she was in college. I hear some good ER stories now, like an old guy who had a spider crawl out of his head.