The dreaded vuvuzela claims its first victim: Woman bursts her windpipe 'by blowing too hard'

Mail Online ^ | 18 June 2010 | By Mail Foreign Service

[AFPhys]

...doctors diagnosed her with a ruptured throat and ordered her to rest it completely to allow it to heal.

The bizarre injury is the first known vuvuzela-related accident...

'I was walking towards the Fan Park in Cape Town and blowing it as hard as I could when suddenly my throat started to hurt.

'At first I thought I'd gone down with a bug but the next day it was worse.

'When I went to the doctor he took a look and then laughed.

'He said I'd ruptured my throat by blowing too hard, and that perhaps I had been doing it all wrong.

'After that I was told to go home and relax the whole area...

A medical report on the injury confirmed Yvonne had ruptured her throat.

It said: 'Extensive surgical emphysema is present in the retrophayngal prevertrebal space.

'This extends from the base of the skull to the supraclavicular regions on both sides and is probably due to a traumatic rupture of the pharynx.'

Dr Scott Barker, who treated Yvonne, said: 'She simply overdid it. We had to keep a check on her for potential infection after the initial tear caused damage to soft tissue.

[AFPhys]

So sad - so sad -

Actually, the whole article is very funny - includes is stuff that does not involve this woman.

Highly recommended...

[KoRn]

/mark

[AFPhys]

For the ping list...

[ConservativeMan55]

bttt

[Deaf Smith]

Blowing what? Was she making a movie? Is this what happened to Linda Lovelace? Do I really want to know?

[FReepaholic]

Vulvazealous?

[AFPhys]

[ottbmare]

FR is supposed to be a family forum. Do we really need to have articles about women who burst their vuvuzelas? This is disgusting!

;-)

[UCANSEE2]

Here I thought “a vuvuzela “ was some part of a woman’s anatomy.

[notdownwidems]

Dr Scott Barker, who treated Yvonne, said: 'She simply overdid it. We had to keep a check on her for potential infection after the initial tear caused damage to soft tissue.

I got an infection after blowing on a vulvallela once myself, down Mehico way...interesting

[UCANSEE2]

OK.

So there were three ducks in this pond. A fish swims up and says to the first duck, “Who are you, and just what are you doing here?”

First duck says, “I’m Duck, and I’m just paddling round the pond and blowing vuvuzela.”

Fish asks second duck same question.

Second duck says, “I’m Duck-Duck, and I’m must paddling round the pond and blowing vuvuzela.”

Fish asks third duck same question.

Third duck says, “I’m vuvuzela.”

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Thanks folks, I’ll be here all night.

[oyez]

A kind of justice if ever been to a ball game or other event when one of the infernal devices is being blown in your ear.

[Tainan]

...Mulva?...




old Seinfeld joke...

[UCANSEE2]

First lesson for blowing the vuvuzela.

Do not insert the instrument into your mouth.

[Tainan]

[scott7278]

He said I'd ruptured my throat by blowing too hard, and that perhaps I had been doing it all wrong.

Context is important.

[UCANSEE2]

Maybe she was a little sauced and someone in front of her kind of stood up and leaned backwards real fast while she was blowing the vuvuzela. Just enough to jam it to the back of her throat, as kind of a “that’s enough” hint.

It seems to have been effective.

[wideawake]

Nothing about this article is funny.

The vuvuzela is the ancient, traditional injection-molded polyurethane horn of the Zulu people.

Have some respect.

[FReepaholic]

...The vuvuzela is the ancient, traditional injection-molded polyurethane horn of the Zulu people...

LOL!

[xrmusn]

Context is important
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Uh,this isn’t quite what I was expecting here. Yes, the ‘headline’ did pique my interest, but somewhere along the way I thought I would see the line

“Blow is just a figure of speech”