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To: FamiliarFace

I typed will but meant wish. Best part about a rose is the smell.


71 posted on 05/01/2025 1:16:51 PM PDT by MomwithHope (Forever grateful to all our patriots, past, present and future.)
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To: MomwithHope

I figured as much. ;) Yes, the best part is the aroma!


76 posted on 05/01/2025 2:16:56 PM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: MomwithHope
Mom W.H.: This is true given what the thorns can do! (Medical slide)

Rose-thorns-can-be-dangerous

"DEAR DR. GOTT: Last spring, I contracted rose-thorn disease. Very painful and extreme swelling occurred in just one finger. I was in the hospital for days under sedation and on antifungal meds. I’m still having stiffness and swelling in that finger now and then. When will this go away? I must say, everything is not coming up roses here.

DEAR READER: Rose-thorn (or rose gardener’s) disease has the technical name of sporothrix schenckii. It is a fungus that resides on hay, sphagnum mosses and the tips of rose thorns. It can cause infection, redness, swelling and open ulcers at the puncture site. The fungus can spread to the lymphatic system and move on to the joints and bones, where it ends up attacking the central nervous system and lungs when the thorn or thorns are deeply embedded.

Diagnosis can be complicated because the condition is relatively uncommon. When an ulcer does present, it is often mistaken by a physician as a staph or strep infection and gets treated accordingly. It is only when the antibiotics prescribed fail to eradicate the ulcer that physicians look outside the box...." (More at link! Medical slide over.)

Reality is not always as nice as Alexander Pope's "To die of Rose in Aromatic pain?" (An Essay on Man" Epistle I, line 200)

87 posted on 05/01/2025 8:38:18 PM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission ( )
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