What's Alan Watching?: Lost, "The Little Prince": Family court:

-Lester Freamon said...
So we know that Rousseau's team is going to come down with a mysterious sickness. The question is, which? There seem to be a number of bizarre medical conditions on this island:

1. Minkowski's Syndrome: Symptoms include a consciousness displaced between different periods in a subject's life, fainting spells, catatonia, nosebleeds, and ultimately death.
Cause: Exposure to high levels of radiation or electromagnetic fields combined with travel across a time bubble.
Treatment: finding a 'constant', a person or object present in both time periods to which the subject has a profound emotional attachment.
Known Sufferers: George Minkowski, Desmond Hume, Theresa Spencer, Eloise the Rat

2. Cabin Fever: Symptoms include disorientation, suicidal tendencies
Causes: Prolonged proximity to time bubbles
Treatment: Unknown
Known Sufferers: Regina, miscellaneous crew of the Kahana. right. forgot about this one. good job Freamon.

3. Temporal Jet Lag: Symptoms included nosebleeds, seizures, headaches, double vision, and long term memory loss.
Causes: Time travel
Treatment: Unknown
Known Sufferers: Charlotte Lewis, Miles Straume, Juliet Burke

People seem to be confusing disease number 1 with disease number 3 right, but it should be noted that with the exception of the highly-visible nosebleeds, they have completely different symptoms.
5:48 PM, February 05, 2009

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