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 ...
So Kathleen has a tooth, eh?
Uh-huh.
Hey, lunch time!
Another 45 minutes... Only 10:15 AM here...
http://www.contactmusic.com/video/confederate-railroad-bills-laundromat-bar-grill-music-video
This is the sort of business Anoreth and I want to open on a tropical island, when she gets out of the CG.
That is absolutely darling! Thanks for posting.
Tropical island? Are you sure? About 50 years ago, I dreamed of retiring to Micronesia. Then the reality hit. Few libraries. Nothing gets dry. Ear fungi. (In FL, people put vodka in their ears to alleviate the discomfort until they can get something specific for it. Do you really want to put your vodka in your *ear*?)
Whew it was HOT for us again yesterday evening and into the morning. Only 84 but the house didn’t cool off a bit until this morning. Yeah I know 84 what a wimp I am....LOL!!!!
Star Wars?
Hey, Ladies!
I’m back from Walmart. Got my second-favorite bus driver on the way home. He always lowers the ramp for me, and says, “That’ll be $5!” I laugh, of course, and call him my son.
Later in the trip, a passenger asked him what street was the diving line for North/South street numbers. The driver stammered, and I said, “Charleston.” The driver looked at me and said, “You’re right. Thanks!” I said, “That’ll be $5.”
Life is good!
I’ve given up the BP meds for now, and the BP (today) is lower than with the meds. I got a call from the doc’s office saying that he had called in a new med for me that is a diuretic. I don’t know if I will take it, as I have herbal meds that do that. He also wants me to have a blood test, and to see me next week.
We shall see who wins this. Whatever it is. I don’t want to follow my SIL to the hospital.
I really miss my new computer, but it may be another three weeks before I get it back.
In the meantime, I’m finding ways to lower my BP to within normal limits, including using sea salt, which has minerals the body needs. Table salt is worthless.
Thanks for update Face. Glad all is well.
I’m a “Survivor,” CO. Life is what it is and I will survive! (I think someone ought to write a song about that!) LOL!
;)
Arkansas.
And it doesn’t always rain in the Caribbean. And I won’t drink Vodka, so I might as well put it in my ears, although generally I use tea-tree oil as a cure-all.
I want you on my bus!
We had the Hobbit Club at the park today. It rained a bit, but there was a giant umbrella, about 20’ diameter, so only little boys got wet, not Kathleen.
Next week we get to the spiders!
Well, all is well, according to me, but the doc has a whole new agenda he wants me to adhere to.
Stay tuned!
I like vodka as a chaser, with any drink, and especially champagne. :o]
What’s the Hobbit Club and am I invited?
Spiders? That was such a dark chapter for me because I LOATHE spiders!
nd with that, I’m outta here for the night!
The Hobbit Club is an activity of the Catholic homeschool association: we’re meeting every Friday, more or less, reading the book, discussing it, and doing crafts. (You’d be invited if you were here!) Today they modeled animals with something between Play-dough and modeling clay; it was soft and didn’t seem to plan on setting up.
The majority of attendees are boys between 6 and 12, so they’ll have a wonderful time with the spiders. The girls (10 to 14) may not be so thrilled. I plan to bring our Hallowe’en spiders: we have two, about 4-foot size.
Some children are dropped off, but it’s a long drive for me, so I stay and have become the assistant leader and take turns reading the chapters with Mrs. Flemings.
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