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Doctors untangle the strange case of the giant hairball
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| 11/22/07
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Posted on 11/22/2007 4:18:09 PM PST by a real Sheila
It may not be the most appetizing reading before a hearty holiday meal, but the New England Journal of Medicine is devoting part of its Thanksgiving issue to a giant hairball -- and not the feline kind.
The prestigious journal details the case of a previously healthy 18-year-old woman who consulted a team of gastrointestinal specialists.
She complained of a five-month history of pain and swelling in her abdomen, vomiting after eating and a 40-pound weight loss.
After a scan of the woman's abdomen showed
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: doctors; hairball; medicalconditions
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To: a real Sheila
In Daniel 14 it mentions daniel make a mixture of pitch and hair and mixed it with hair and fed it to a dragon. It says the Dragon burst asunder or basically a rupture of the GI tract.
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posted on
11/22/2007 6:31:21 PM PST
by
LukeL
To: 668 - Neighbor of the Beast
Go to the link. You’ll wish you hadn’t.
42
posted on
11/22/2007 7:23:52 PM PST
by
metmom
(Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
To: Slings and Arrows
43
posted on
11/22/2007 7:24:28 PM PST
by
metmom
(Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
To: a real Sheila
44
posted on
11/22/2007 7:24:47 PM PST
by
metmom
(Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
To: metmom; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; martin_fierro; ...
I feel like I should be sending this to my Kitty Ping List.
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posted on
11/22/2007 8:06:37 PM PST
by
Slings and Arrows
("Be deranged in a consistent manner. Manson was nuts, but at least he was always on message." --dead)
To: Slings and Arrows
They should have just rubbed a little coconut oil on her paws for a couple of weeks.
That helps keep things moving right along.
46
posted on
11/22/2007 8:10:42 PM PST
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes into it.)
To: Harmless Teddy Bear
Humans generally don’t respond well to that treatment.
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posted on
11/22/2007 8:12:36 PM PST
by
Slings and Arrows
("Be deranged in a consistent manner. Manson was nuts, but at least he was always on message." --dead)
To: Slings and Arrows
I disagree. I respond very well to being rubbed with coconut oil.
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posted on
11/22/2007 8:15:17 PM PST
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes into it.)
To: a real Sheila
Whoa! Now THAT'S a hairball! ...................................... FRegards
49
posted on
11/22/2007 8:22:15 PM PST
by
gonzo
(Sometimes, well, most of the time, I wish Hillary had married OJ ...)
To: armymarinemom
I remember reading about a bezoar made of pennies. The patient died from liver failure due to copper toxicity.
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posted on
11/22/2007 8:55:35 PM PST
by
boop
(Who doesn't love poison pot pies?)
To: boop
I suppose the stomach acids would eventually dissolve copper and the metal would work it’s way through the blood stream.
To: miliantnutcase
"I suppose the stomach acids would eventually dissolve copper and the metal would work its way through the blood stream"
That's exactly what happened. I read it in an old Forensic Pathology journal. Back when pennies were mostly copper. The patient had swallowed pounds of pennies, which became fused into this huge metallic blob in his stomach.
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posted on
11/22/2007 9:09:03 PM PST
by
boop
(Who doesn't love poison pot pies?)
To: a real Sheila
Finally, CNN found something they are qualified to report on.
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posted on
11/22/2007 10:17:30 PM PST
by
UCANSEE2
(- Attention all planets of the solar Federation--Secret plan codeword: Banana)
To: boop
I guess the turquoise vomit wasn’t enough of a tipoff, huh.
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posted on
11/22/2007 10:19:12 PM PST
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Beat a better path, and the world will build a mousetrap at your door.)
To: HiTech RedNeck
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posted on
11/22/2007 10:20:59 PM PST
by
boop
(Who doesn't love poison pot pies?)
To: a real Sheila
Well, she’s stopped eating her hair, which is good.
To: Viking2002
My wife could shave herself bald, and I'd still be digging something out of the trap that looks like a dead rat on a weekly basis. Umm...everywhere?
<}B^)
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posted on
11/22/2007 11:04:14 PM PST
by
Erasmus
(My simplifying explanation had the disconcerting side effect of making the subject incomprehensible.)
To: Trailerpark Badass
Well, shes stopped eating her hair, which is good. Her hair is good? You've tasted it?
Never mind; I don't want to know.
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posted on
11/23/2007 12:24:24 AM PST
by
ApplegateRanch
(...and there is no new thing under the sun.. Ecclesiastes 1:9 [KJV])
To: Slings and Arrows
Oh gosh ...thanks for the ping ..I'm glad I didn't see this on turkey day ... I would have been all grossed out!
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posted on
11/23/2007 12:40:04 AM PST
by
Daffynition
(The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.)
To: a real Sheila
Now that is what you call a “bad hair day”!
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posted on
11/23/2007 1:17:35 AM PST
by
444Flyer
("Oly Oly Oxen Free!" Matt 3:1-3, Rev 22:17,John 3:1-36, Jude 9, Eph 6, Rev 12:11, Jer 29:13-14)
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