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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 ...
TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: knife; medical; molassesmiasma; ouch; undeadthread; undeadthreadhere
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To: ThomasThomas
I am sorry to hear it, Thomas. At least you seem to have a good attitude for the moment.
Maybe consider it a career-change moment. Or if that doesn’t appear to be working out, try doing something with your time that you enjoy on a personal level.
I’ve tried to teach my kids that if you can find something to do that you enjoy doing, and can find someone who’s willing to pay you to do it, then you will have found happiness.
That beats “employment” all hollow.
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posted on
08/09/2012 5:31:48 AM PDT
by
NicknamedBob
(The road less traveled is often hazardous that way.)
To: null and void
Cthulhu: "She swallowed a knife? Big deal, I swallow whole towns."
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posted on
08/09/2012 5:59:04 AM PDT
by
Darksheare
(Try my coffee, first one's free.....)
To: NicknamedBob
In it right now... The next couple weeks are the busiest of the year. Parsing data, rounding up account info, setting up security, bringing new systems online, etc...
Two weeks and we have teachers in the building... A week after that, students.
School board turned down my request to carry a tazer... I guess I'll have to find some other way to manage. ;-)
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posted on
08/09/2012 6:33:17 AM PDT
by
Dead Corpse
(I will not comply.)
To: Darksheare
A sense of perspective is important in life.
184
posted on
08/09/2012 6:37:17 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(If you can't say anything nice, have some more wine.)
To: Tax-chick
If I were there, I would take the chicken casseroles and the fruit salad with the Cool Whip, and plan on getting a dog while sneaking in a cat, thereby eliminating one of the $250 deposits. LOL!
Right now, I’m researching high potassium foods and trying to figure out how to add them withouth altering everything else in my life. I’ve lost five pounds this last week, just because I tried to eat. So far, the only thing I’ve discovered about the BP meds is that they don’t lower the BP, but do mimic the symptoms of CFIDS.
This last, of course, is the main reason I refused to take them in the first place. Prescription drugs and CFIDS don’t belong together. I wish I could talk the doc into giving me potassium.
(Tagline!)
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posted on
08/09/2012 6:51:49 AM PDT
by
Monkey Face
(Dogs + stress = If you can't eat it or play with it, pee on it and walk away.)
To: ThomasThomas
I’m sorry to hear of your lay-off, Thomas, but I will keep you in my prayers, asking that you find a decent car without too much expense, and that another, better job comes your way.
No matter what, don’t give up on yourself, and remember you are loved!
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posted on
08/09/2012 6:57:07 AM PDT
by
Monkey Face
(Dogs + stress = If you can't eat it or play with it, pee on it and walk away.)
To: Monkey Face
Best wishes with the potassium. Good tagline.
I’m trying to organize the school year. *sigh*
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posted on
08/09/2012 7:03:00 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(If you can't say anything nice, have some more wine.)
To: Tax-chick
The doctors are taught to tell people that high blood pressure is a disease. It isn’t. It’s a symptom of something else that is wrong in your body. So I’m going to do all I can to increase my potassium intake and lower the BP naturally so I can get away from the disastrous side-effects I’m experiencing.
My SIL took some BP meds and was so dehydrated she had to be hospitalized. Not for me. There has to be a better way.
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posted on
08/09/2012 7:35:24 AM PDT
by
Monkey Face
(Dogs + stress = If you can't eat it or play with it, pee on it and walk away.)
To: Tax-chick
At least I didn’t pull something from August Derleth’s writings.
The Dhole worm, it burrows under whole towns.
189
posted on
08/09/2012 8:23:18 AM PDT
by
Darksheare
(Try my coffee, first one's free.....)
To: Dead Corpse
190
posted on
08/09/2012 8:36:36 AM PDT
by
LibreOuMort
(I am still here, by the grace of God. Sionnsar, mo chridh, tha mi fo bhronach nach bith thu an seo.)
To: LibreOuMort; Darksheare
August Derleth wrote a children’s biography of Father Marquette, explorer of the Mississippi.
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posted on
08/09/2012 11:30:51 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(If you can't say anything nice, have some more wine.)
To: LibreOuMort; Tax-chick; redhead; All
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posted on
08/09/2012 11:38:12 AM PDT
by
Monkey Face
(Dogs + stress = If you can't eat it or play with it, pee on it and walk away.)
To: Monkey Face
193
posted on
08/09/2012 12:07:47 PM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(If you can't say anything nice, have some more wine.)
To: Tax-chick
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posted on
08/09/2012 12:14:46 PM PDT
by
Monkey Face
(Dogs + stress = If you can't eat it or play with it, pee on it and walk away.)
To: Tax-chick
The “little something” just came!
Thanks!
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posted on
08/09/2012 1:49:52 PM PDT
by
Monkey Face
(Dogs + stress = If you can't eat it or play with it, pee on it and walk away.)
To: Monkey Face
That was a speedy postal-bunneh. Eat it in good health!
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posted on
08/09/2012 1:59:14 PM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(If you can't say anything nice, have some more wine.)
To: Tax-chick
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posted on
08/09/2012 3:47:08 PM PDT
by
Monkey Face
(Dogs + stress = If you can't eat it or play with it, pee on it and walk away.)
To: Monkey Face; NicknamedBob; Dead Corpse; Darksheare; LibreOuMort; HKMk23; ThomasThomas; Anoreth; ...
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posted on
08/10/2012 3:10:04 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(If you can't say anything nice, have some more wine.)
To: Tax-chick; HKMk23
Is that the Hello Kitty, Mark 2.3?
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posted on
08/10/2012 5:28:21 AM PDT
by
NicknamedBob
(The road less traveled is often hazardous that way.)
To: NicknamedBob
Those cute little things can be absolutely deadly.
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posted on
08/10/2012 5:41:41 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(If you can't say anything nice, have some more wine.)
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