Monsters Inside Me (2009)

Episode Overview

Title: All I Got For Christmas Is Brain Surgery Plot: In this festive third episode, a baby struggles with left-side body control and experiences several tiny seizures, leading doctors to uncover a malformation on her right brain caused by a Cytomegalovirus infection. Meanwhile, a PR executive has been battling a mysterious illness for a year, which is ultimately diagnosed as a cyst formed by Echinococcus granulosus tapeworms affecting her spleen. Additionally, a schoolteacher's Thanksgiving is marred by seizures, and as they escalate during the Christmas season, medical investigations reveal the presence of a pork tapeworm cyst.