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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That is exactly what I thought too!
Yuk! That looks almost as bad as the hairball!
Bezoars!
Suffered by cats and neurotics.
A Raccoon has a ring around its' tail,
A Possum's tail is bare.
A rabbit ain't got no tail at all,
Just a little ball of hair ...:^D
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