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 ...
14 is a healthy age for a cat. Our Jake is about 3-1/2, and Shannon is about 5.
I wish them and you long and healthy lives filled with joy.
LOL! We took our late Muffin to the vet when he was 8, and the vet called him a “senior citizen.” What a doofus. Our oldest cat got to 19-1/2. Now, that’s a senior citizen. I think that’s 92 in cat years.
Eight was barely old enough for his first mid-life crisis!
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