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Woman laughs, accidentally swallows knife
Los Angeles Times ^ | August 3, 2012 | Rosie Mestel

Posted on 08/05/2012 4:43:59 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement

"Unexpected Swallowing of a Knife" -- that's a grabbier title than most ones you see in medical journals.

The short item, a clinical image in this week's New England Journal of Medicine, explains that a 30-year-old woman with a history of bulimia had been bragging to friends that she no longer had a gag reflex. She put the knife into her mouth and then laughed -- at which point she swallowed the knife.

(Excerpt) Read more at sun-sentinel.com ...


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To: TheOldLady

14 is a healthy age for a cat. Our Jake is about 3-1/2, and Shannon is about 5.


1,021 posted on 09/07/2012 11:10:56 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Spinach at every meal.)
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To: Tax-chick

I wish them and you long and healthy lives filled with joy.

LOL! We took our late Muffin to the vet when he was 8, and the vet called him a “senior citizen.” What a doofus. Our oldest cat got to 19-1/2. Now, that’s a senior citizen. I think that’s 92 in cat years.

Eight was barely old enough for his first mid-life crisis!


1,022 posted on 09/07/2012 12:34:27 PM PDT by TheOldLady
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